Integrate ReCaptcha in Lift application

April 5, 2014April 7, 2014 Studio-ScalaReCaptcha

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ReCaptcha is a free CAPTCHA service which provides the strong security to application. In this blog we will learn how to integrate ReCaptcha in Lift-Scala application on lift-ajax form.

Add following dependency in build.sbt


"net.tanesha.recaptcha4j" % "recaptcha4j" % "0.0.7"

Put ReCaptcha.scala file in your project from my gist
Create account on ReCaptcha to get the public and private key for your domain
Put public and private key in your properties file:


#Re-captcha
recaptcha.publicKey=<public key>
recaptcha.privateKey=<private key>

Now, you can use Captcha in your application.

To see full example:

Clone code from here : https://github.com/ruchiagarwal-knoldus/Lift-Captcha-Demo
Run : sbt ~container:start
Go to http://localhost:8080