Google ReCAPTCHA is widely used across the Internet by different kinds of websites and blogs in order to protect the site from abuse. For instance, TBC-Hosting also has this service provided for WordPress websites. To integrate Google reCAPTCHA in an application, the app or web domain is registered with Google’s reCAPTCHA service. And after you register the domain, Google will provide you with reCAPTCHA keys.

There are two different kinds of keys – a site key, and a secret key. Basically, a site key is a public key, and a secret key is a private key respectively. You can obtain these keys by registering your site with Google’s reCAPTCHA service.

So what are those keys use for? The Site Key is used to render the reCAPTCHA within a page and the Secret Key is used for performing server-side validation. The keys are unique to the domain they are registered to.

In this article we show you the guideline to obtaining the reCAPTCHA keys from Google.

How to get Google reCAPTCHA keys

• Head to Google’s reCAPTCHA site.
• After opening Google’s reCAPTCHA site, click on Admin Console, the blue button on the upper right-hand side.
• Sign in to your Google account to proceed next into the reCAPTCHA dashboard.
• After signing in, the Google reCAPTCHA dashboard appears. If you have already generated reCAPTCHA keys the dashboard shows stats about your previously created keys.
• To get a new Site Key and Secret Key, click on + , which is a button on the upper right-hand side.
• The “Register a new site” form will open. Here, you will need to plug in information about your site in order to obtain the Site Key and Secret Key:

1.Label – Create a label for the site’s keys.

2.reCAPTCHA Type – There are four different types of Google reCAPTCHA available for use on your site.

3.Domain – The website URL where you will use these keys, e.g. example.com.

4.Owners – You don’t need to change this, it’s set by default according to the Google account you logged in with. To register multiple owners, enter the relevant email accounts in the “Enter email addresses” field.

5.Terms of Service - Accept the reCAPTCHA terms of service in order to utilize reCAPTCHA for your site.

6.Alerts – If there are any problems on your website like reCaptcha misconfiguration or increase suspicious traffic, alerts will be sent to the owner(s) of the site listed in the form.

• After submitting the form the newly generated Site Key and Secret Key will appear.

This is the easy and simple way to get Google reCAPTCHA keys for your website(s). We recommend going through this procedure in order to provide better protection for your website.