# Spam Prevention with Formalicious

**URL:** <https://forum.modmore.com/t/spam-prevention-with-formalicious/2184>\
**Category:** Formalicious\
**Created:** [February 18, 2021, 2:50pm UTC](https://forum.modmore.com/t/spam-prevention-with-formalicious/2184 "2021-02-18T14:50:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![deJaya](https://forum.modmore.com/user_avatar/forum.modmore.com/dejaya/32/483_2.png) [@deJaya](https://forum.modmore.com/u/deJaya)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 2:50pm UTC](https://forum.modmore.com/t/spam-prevention-with-formalicious/2184/1 "2021-02-18T14:50:50Z")

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Hi all,

I’m wondering what spam-prevention techniques people are using with Formalicious.

I never did get ReCaptcha to work with it - and to be honest - with the trackers it deploys vs GDPR requirements I want to use that less, not more.

I usually just enable the math captcha hook as described in the documentation and this works well to a point. But once a form has been live for a while the spam starts to creep in even with this in place.

So what’s your approach?

Many thanks in advance for any thoughts.

Cheers,

Chris

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**Author:** ![quentin100](https://forum.modmore.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/ecc23a/32.png) [@quentin100](https://forum.modmore.com/u/quentin100)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2021, 2:46pm UTC](https://forum.modmore.com/t/spam-prevention-with-formalicious/2184/2 "2021-02-24T14:46:12Z")

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I do use the ReCaptcha and it works well, albeit a little fiddly to set t up every time.

I use Sepia River’s RecaptchaV2 Extra, although I set it up with v3 Recaptcha API & Keys.

The solution I have is a custom form tpl for Formalicious and I add in the Recptcha code there, so it fires on every form:

FormTpl:

```
[[!FormIt?
    [[!+FormItParameters]]
    &recaptchav3.token_key=`tk-form-[[!+id]]` 
    &recaptchav3.action_key=`ak-form-[[!+id]]`
]]

<form>
(after submit button) 
[[!recaptchav3_render? 
   &form_id=`form-[[!+id]]` 
   &tpl=`recaptchav3_html` 
   &token_key=`tk-form-[[!+id]]` 
   &action_key=`ak-form-[[!+id]]`
]]
[[!+fi.error.recaptchav3_error]] 
</form>

```

I then update my formalicious Render Form snippet to use this new Form Tpl:

```
[[!FormaliciousRenderForm? ... &tplForm=`FormTpl`]]

```

Finally, you add the recaptchav3 (or recaptchav2) to the PostHooks field in the form.

**NB.** I am pretty sure I have gotten this working automatically, either by finding the placeholder [[!+FormItParameters]] in the code and adding the recaptchav3 to the hooks, or by adding a &hooks=`recaptchav3` to my custom form, but I can’t currently find out which or where I did it!

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**Author:** ![deJaya](https://forum.modmore.com/user_avatar/forum.modmore.com/dejaya/32/483_2.png) [@deJaya](https://forum.modmore.com/u/deJaya)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2021, 11:54am UTC](https://forum.modmore.com/t/spam-prevention-with-formalicious/2184/3 "2021-03-01T11:54:12Z")

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Hi @quentin100 ,

Many thanks for the reply and for sharing your approach.

I tried a similar recaptcha fix before but never quite got it to work - I’ll try again tho with the details you’ve shared.

Let us know if you find your shortcut method as that sounds useful!

I’d also be interested to hear about any non-recaptcha methods people might be using successfully.

Cheers for now,

Chris