Fill form of other website by autogenerated url

Wappler General How To
#1

Hi guys…its not a real wappler question, but important for my project.

What i plan to do:
Lets say there is site abc.com, a foreign site, and there is my site xyz.com.
abc.com has a contact form, lets say its abc.com/contact.php and there are some fields. I would like to automatically open the site/form by clicking a button at xyz.com and fill some fields, like name, by clicking a button at my site so users dont have to fill out every single field.

Is this possible? If yes…how?

Thank you very much guys!

#2

Yes this is usually possible by using URL parameters.

So if the form at abc.com/contact.php has a field with the name ‘email’, you can use the browser function in Wappler to go to

browser1.goto('abc.com/contact.php?email='+email_address)

P.S - Just be aware that this isn’t classed a secure way of sending sensitive data.

#3

Thank you. That was the way i tried… Is there a way that the website could prevent such behaviour?
im my special case my parameters were ignored completely…

#4

Are you able to share the actual page of abc.com?

#5

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i tried name and id

#7

Sites often add additional security to contact forms to stop exactly what you describe. Basically “injecting” data into a contact form is typically a spammer trick people try to stop hence it gets blocked.

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#8

The other site (abc.com) would need to have their form set up to fill in the fields using the GET variables which I doubt they would have in place because of what @Hyperbytes said. The only other way I’ve found for auto-filling in forms is a browser plugin where it detects a form and puts in things like name, email address, etc. into the fields it thinks are relevant.

#9

Thank you for your information :slight_smile:

I will stop trying it and find an other way to get the job done.

Anyway: great Teamwork, thanks :wink: