topic Can I use a Hubspot form's data to create a custom form on my website? in APIs & Integrations

Can I use a Hubspot form's data to create a custom form on my website?

MArmstrong34 — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 04:15:36 GMT

I want event registration on my website, but I do not want to use an embedded form. I want to use my own custom form on my website, and then the API to save the data to Hubspot.

Is it possible to make the form on Hubspot, and then (using the form id for it) somehow fetch the form data to use on my front-end in order to build my own custom form? I would then use the API to save each property to a contact.

Thank you in advance!!

Re: Can I use a Hubspot form's data to create a custom form on my website?

Jaycee_Lewis — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 18:41:16 GMT

Hi, @MArmstrong34 👋 Welcome to our community!

You are on the right track, but there are a few things to note:

There's no direct way to fetch a form's structure (like field names and types) to use to construct your form on the frontend via the HubSpot API
You can definitely build a custom form on your website that has the same fields as your HubSpot form, and then use the HubSpot Form API to submit data from your custom form

From the documentation — Submit data to a form (Supporting Authentication)

“Form submissions from external sources can be made to any registered HubSpot form. You can see a list of forms on your account by navigating to Marketing > Lead Capture > Forms.”

And

“We recommend creating a unique form in HubSpot to parallel your custom website form. This will make it easy to track submissions on that particular custom form in the future.”

The quick steps:

Create a form in HubSpot to send your data to
Build your custom form
Make sure to use the same properties as your HubSpot form. Each form field should be an object with 'name' and 'value' properties, like this: {"fields”: [{"name”: “email”, “value”: “example@example.com”}, ...]}
Make a submission to this endpoint POST https://api.hsforms.com/submissions/v3/integration/secure/submit/:portalId/:formGuid

Have fun building! — Jaycee

Re: Can I use a Hubspot form's data to create a custom form on my website?

MArmstrong34 — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 20:57:30 GMT

Hi Jaycee, thanks for the quick and detailed reply.

There's no direct way to fetch a form's structure (like field names and types) to use to construct your form on the frontend via the HubSpot API.

What if we use the legacy API? Would that give us that option? I ask because of this page:

https://legacydocs.hubspot.com/docs/methods/forms/v2/get_fields

Cheers 🙂