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title: requestAirdrop
hideTableOfContents: true
h1: requestAirdrop RPC Method
---

Requests an airdrop of lamports to a Pubkey

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### Parameters

<Parameter type={"string"} required={true}>
  Pubkey of account to receive lamports, as a base-58 encoded string
</Parameter>

<Parameter type={"integer"} required={true}>
  lamports to airdrop, as a "u64"
</Parameter>

<Parameter type={"object"} optional={true}>

Configuration object containing the following fields:

<Field
  name="commitment"
  type="string"
  optional={true}
  href="/docs/rpc/index.mdx#configuring-state-commitment"
/>

</Parameter>

### Result

`<string>` - Transaction Signature of the airdrop, as a base-58 encoded string

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### Code sample

```shell
curl https://api.devnet.solana.com -s -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '
  {
    "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1,
    "method": "requestAirdrop",
    "params": [
      "83astBRguLMdt2h5U1Tpdq5tjFoJ6noeGwaY3mDLVcri",
      1000000000
    ]
  }
'
```

### Response

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "result": "5VERv8NMvzbJMEkV8xnrLkEaWRtSz9CosKDYjCJjBRnbJLgp8uirBgmQpjKhoR4tjF3ZpRzrFmBV6UjKdiSZkQUW",
  "id": 1
}
```

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