Honeypot Spam Filtering

Fool automated form bots by adding a hidden honeypot input

Overview

Honeypot protection provides security method to protect your forms endpoints from submission by spam bots. A honeypot is a field added to your forms that users cannot see because it is hidden. If a honeypot field is filled in when the submission is sent, we will mark the submission as spam.

How to setup

Simply add any of these fields to your HTML form to enable honeypot filtering:

  • _gotcha
  • honeypot

Example

Add the honeypot field to your HTML form:

<form action="https://nocodeform.io/f/{your-form-endpoint}" method="POST">
  <input type="text" name="name">
  <input type="email" name="email">
  <input type="text" name="_gotcha" style="display:none;">
  <button type="submit">Send</button>
</form>