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hCaptcha

Last Updated: December 6, 2022

Knowledge Base → Forms → Form Building → Field Types → hCaptcha

What is hCaptcha?

Add hCaptcha for spam protection
hCaptcha is a free privacy-focused tool that is a popular alternative to Google's reCAPTCHA in protecting sites from spammers and spambots. Its program is designed to distinguish human users from spam via a challenge-response test.

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Set up hCaptcha

  1. Sign up for a free hCaptcha account by clicking the Sign Up button.
    hCaptcha - Sign up button
  2. Click the button under Add hCaptcha to your service (free) to avail of the free plan.
    hCaptcha - Add Free plan
  3. Sign up with your GitHub, Google account, or your email address.
    hCaptcha - Register account
  4. If it is your first time creating a hCaptcha account, you will be redirected to the Welcome page right after signup. The Site key and Account secret key will be automatically generated for you.
    hCaptcha - Dashboard Welcome
    If not, you will be redirected to your hCaptcha account, where you can generate your site key and secret key by clicking the New site button.
    hCaptcha - Account New Site
  5. Create a new Site key by providing a name to identify the site. Fill out the other details such as hostname, hCaptcha behavior, and passing threshold.
    hCaptcha - Account Add New Sitekey
  6. To get a copy of the Site key, go to Site and click the Settings button.
    hCaptcha - Account Copy Site Key
  7. To get a copy of the Secret Key, go to your hCaptcha account and click Settings from the dropdown.
    hCaptcha - Account Copy Secret Key
  8. Go back to your site. In Formidable → Global Settings → CAPTCHA page, select hCaptcha as the captcha type and insert your Site and Secret key.
    hCaptcha - Global Settings
  9. Add the hCaptcha field to each form you would like protected.
    hCaptcha - Form field
    If you are building a multi-paged form, insert the hCaptcha field on the last page.

Field options

A hCaptcha field has the following options:
hCaptcha Field OptionshCaptcha Field Options

  • Field key
  • CSS layout classes
  • Label position
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  • Visibility
  • Conditional logic

How to disable hCaptcha

If your form includes a hCaptcha field and you want to disable it, delete the hCaptcha field from the form builder page. You can also visit the Formidable → Global Settings page and remove the hCaptcha keys.

  • What is hCaptcha?
  • Set up hCaptcha
  • Field options
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