How to best deal with spam results from native Webflow form

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Good morning,

I’ve been getting a lot of spam submissions to my native Webflow form, and wondering what’s the current best way to deal with this?

The spam usually follows this format, where the name and message fields are just a long string of characters:

Name: LsQItezaavuGaAUAuijWydU
Email: tuckerkerensanw9080@gmail.com
Phone: 5468286137
Message: oNWfwKrfWghcXJFmVuYujp

I’d prefer to find a native solution if possible. It’s only a few messages a day, so not sure that it’s worth paying for a fix.

Thanks.

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Hi there!

Webflow provides several built-in methods to prevent form spam:

  1. Enable Cloudflare Turnstile spam protection:

    • Go to Site settings > Apps & Integrations
    • Locate and enable Cloudflare Turnstile
    • This feature uses AI to analyze mouse movements and inputs to block bot submissions

  2. Enable spam filtering:

    • Located in the same section as Turnstile
    • Automatically checks all form data to filter out spam submissions
    • Works across all forms on your site

For additional protection, you can implement a honeypot technique by adding a hidden form field that only bots can see and fill out. When this field contains data, you can automatically filter out the submission as spam. You can find a detailed implementation guide here: honeypot technique.

Hopefully this helps! If you still need assistance, please reply here so somebody from the community can help.

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I have found the built-in spam filtering features don’t help much. The honeypot method is interesting. I’ll give that a try.

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How do I locate and enable Cloudflare Turnstile? I can’t find this anywhere.

The guide you linked to for implementing a honeypot technique is a bit confusing. I need something that can walk me through it step by step.

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Check out Mike Pecha’s tutorial on how to use FormSpark and BotPoison for Webflow spam protection. I’ve used it on a few Webflow projects and my clients are not getting spam. Tutorial Link

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  1. Clouflare Turnstile is enabled automatically by Webflow.
  2. If you scroll down on testing-honeypot - Webflow , you can see the instructions on how to implement