How to publish list count on site frontend

[Joe_Dix]

We're trying to develop a petition-style tool using HubSpot.

When a user fills in the form to sign the petition they will be added to a list. I want to be able to show how many people have signed the petition already (to encourage others to take part), but can't figure out if there is a way in hubl to extract the number of entries in a specific list.

I've seen someone has done it using javascript to call the API but this would make the API key available so I don't want to do that.

[cbarley · Accepted solution]

Hi @Joe_Dix , you can't call the HubSpot Lists API on the frontend : https://developers.hubspot.com/docs/faq/do-hubspot-apis-support-ajax-request. You'd need to make this query server-side and pass that information to the frontend. 

[mgoswick]

Is there any way to just display the information using HubL instead? So rather that using an AJAX implementation, the HubL code would handle getting the data server-side and just display it as a HubL token?

[cbarley]

Hi @mgoswick , there's no way to show all folks that are in a list, but you can use tokens like request.contact.list_memberships to see if a visitor is in a specific list with a certain ID, then do something for that visitor if you'd like. We also do have this crm_object function as well that can display contact data but it may not be as robust as you'd need: https://designers.hubspot.com/en/docs/hubl/hubl-supported-functions#crm-object