Faucet

Devnet, Testnet, and local networks include faucets that mint IOTA. You can use the IOTA TypeScript SDK to call a network's faucet and provide IOTA to the address you provide.

To request IOTA from a faucet, import the requestIotaFromFaucetV0 function from the @iota/iota-sdk/faucet package to your project.

import { getFaucetHost, requestIotaFromFaucetV0 } from '@iota/iota-sdk/faucet';

Use requestIotaFromFaucetV0 in your TypeScript code to request IOTA from the network's faucet.

await requestIotaFromFaucetV0({
	host: getFaucetHost('testnet'),
	recipient: <RECIPIENT_ADDRESS>,
});

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Faucets on Devnet and Testnet are rate limited. If you run the script too many times, you surpass the limit and must wait to successfully run it again.