Magento 2, How to create API for customer forget password?

Question

Using Magento, API. I need to create an API for customer send forget password. I found the page that allows to customer send e-mail for request change password but I don't how to use this page for web service.

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Answer 1

 <?php 
 require_once('baseurl.php');
error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE); 
$userData = array("username" => "", "password" => "");
$ch = curl_init($baseUrl . "rest/V1/integration/admin/token");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($userData));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Content-Type: application/json", "Content-Lenght: " . strlen(json_encode($userData))));
$token = curl_exec($ch);
 $url=$baseUrl . "rest/V1/customers/password?email=".$emailId."&template=email_reset&websiteId=1";
 //echo $url;
 $ch = curl_init($url);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "PUT");
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Content-Type: application/json", "Authorization: Bearer " . json_decode($token)));
 $result = curl_exec($ch);
 if($result=='true'){
 $response='{
 "status":"true",
 "message":"Password reset link has been sent to your email id"
 }';
 echo $response;
 }
 else{
 $response='{
 "status":"false",
 "message":"This email address is not registered"
 }';
 echo $response;
 }

• Mahendra: I am using this way for forget password api for mobile app
• Bong Channarith: I got this message : "message": "Too many password reset requests. Please wait and try again or contact %1.
• Mahendra: Set from store->configuration->customer->customer configuration->password option->Min Time Between Password Reset Requests
• Mahendra: Try after 2 hours it will work

Answer 2

webapi.xml

<route url="/V1/customers/me/password" method="PUT">
 <service class="Magento\Customer\Api\AccountManagementInterface" method="changePasswordById"/>
 <resources>
 <resource ref="self"/>
 </resources>
 <data>
 <parameter name="customerId" force="true">%customer_id%</parameter>
 </data>
</route>

url :: action - PUT

http://127.0.0.1/magento.host/rest/V1/customers/me/password?customerId=160

Headers ::

Authorization Bearer <Admin Token>
Content-Type application/json

Body> raw> JSON(application/json) ::

---

{
 "currentPassword": "aditya@123",
 "newPassword": "admin@123"
}

Output

It will change customer password, need to pass current and new password in body.