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# requestAirdrop on Solana

> Call requestAirdrop on Solana via GoldRush JSON-RPC. Requests an airdrop of lamports to an account (devnet/testnet). Endpoint, parameters, return values, and code examples.

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`requestAirdrop` on **Solana**: Requests an airdrop of lamports to an account (devnet/testnet).

## Endpoint

```
https://rpc.goldrushdata.com/v1/solana-mainnet
```

Authenticate with `Authorization: Bearer <GOLDRUSH_API_KEY>`. See [authentication](/goldrush-json-rpc/authentication).

## Parameters

| Name       | Type     | Required | Description                        | Example                                          |
| ---------- | -------- | -------- | ---------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------ |
| `address`  | `string` | yes      | Base-58 encoded recipient address. | `"9WzDXwBbmkg8ZTbNMqUxvQRAyrZzDsGYdLVL9zYtAWWM"` |
| `lamports` | `u64`    | yes      | Number of lamports to airdrop.     | `1000000000`                                     |
| `config`   | `object` | no       | `{commitment?}`.                   | `{"commitment":"finalized"}`                     |

## Returns

`string`: Base-58 encoded airdrop transaction signature.

```json theme={null}
"5VERv8NMvzbJMEkV8xnrLkEaWRtSz9CosKDYjCJjBRnbJLgp8uirBgmQpjKhoR4tjF3ZpRzrFmBV6UjKdiSZkQUW"
```

## Examples

<CodeGroup>
  ```bash curl theme={null}
  curl https://rpc.goldrushdata.com/v1/solana-mainnet \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $GOLDRUSH_API_KEY" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{
      "jsonrpc": "2.0",
      "id": 1,
      "method": "requestAirdrop",
      "params": ["9WzDXwBbmkg8ZTbNMqUxvQRAyrZzDsGYdLVL9zYtAWWM", 1000000000, {"commitment":"finalized"}]
    }'
  ```

  ```typescript @solana/kit theme={null}
  import {
    createDefaultRpcTransport,
    createSolanaRpcFromTransport,
  } from "@solana/kit";

  const transport = createDefaultRpcTransport({
    url: "https://rpc.goldrushdata.com/v1/solana-mainnet",
    headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.GOLDRUSH_API_KEY}` },
  });
  const rpc = createSolanaRpcFromTransport(transport);

  const result = await rpc.requestAirdrop("9WzDXwBbmkg8ZTbNMqUxvQRAyrZzDsGYdLVL9zYtAWWM", 1000000000, {"commitment":"finalized"}).send();
  console.log(result);
  ```

  ```python python theme={null}
  import os
  import requests

  resp = requests.post(
      "https://rpc.goldrushdata.com/v1/solana-mainnet",
      headers={
          "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['GOLDRUSH_API_KEY']}",
          "Content-Type": "application/json",
      },
      json={"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "method": "requestAirdrop", "params": ["9WzDXwBbmkg8ZTbNMqUxvQRAyrZzDsGYdLVL9zYtAWWM", 1000000000, {"commitment":"finalized"}]},
  )
  print(resp.json()["result"])
  ```
</CodeGroup>

## Errors

| Code     | Message                                                                  |
| -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `-32600` | Airdrop request failed (not available on mainnet-beta, or rate limited). |

Plus standard JSON-RPC errors: `-32600` invalid request, `-32601` method not found, `-32602` invalid params.

## Related Token info methods on Solana

* [`getTokenAccountsByOwner` on Solana](/api-reference/json-rpc/solana/gettokenaccountsbyowner)
* [`getTokenAccountBalance` on Solana](/api-reference/json-rpc/solana/gettokenaccountbalance)
* [`getTokenSupply` on Solana](/api-reference/json-rpc/solana/gettokensupply)
* [`getTokenLargestAccounts` on Solana](/api-reference/json-rpc/solana/gettokenlargestaccounts)
* [`getTokenAccountsByDelegate` on Solana](/api-reference/json-rpc/solana/gettokenaccountsbydelegate)