Formspree

Overview

This repository is no longer active. It used to provide a hosted form API called Formspree. Formspree allowed users to send their form data to a specific email address without the need for PHP, Javascript, or sign up. It was designed to be easy to set up and free to use.

Features

• Functional HTML forms: Formspree allowed users to easily create functional HTML forms by simply changing the form’s action attribute to the Formspree URL.
• Send form data to email: When a form was submitted, Formspree would forward the data as an email to the specified email address.
• No sign up required: Users did not need to sign up or create an account to use Formspree.
• Advanced features: Form inputs could have specially named attributes that altered functionality, such as setting the email’s Reply-To field, providing an alternative Thank You page URL, specifying the subject of the email, adding CC recipients, and using a “honeypot” field to avoid spam.

Installation

To install Formspree, the following steps needed to be followed:

1. Set up the HTML form:

   • Change the form’s action attribute to the Formspree URL.
   • Replace “your@email.com” with the desired email address.

2. Submit the form and confirm email address:

   • Submit the form on the website once.
   • This would send an email asking for confirmation of the email address to prevent spam submissions.

3. Receive emails:

   • From that point onwards, whenever someone submitted the form, the data would be forwarded to the specified email address.

For advanced features and using AJAX, there were additional instructions provided in the content.

For running a self-hosted copy of Formspree, the following steps were outlined:

1. Set up the required environment with SendGrid account, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Python 2.7.
2. Install pip and create a virtual environment for the server.
3. Create a PostgreSQL database and clone the Formspree repository.
4. Configure the .env file with the necessary credentials.
5. Set the Flask CLI to recognize the application.
6. Create the required tables in the PostgreSQL database.
7. Run the server locally.

Note: The content did not provide complete code snippets for the installation steps.

Summary

The content analyzed was about Formspree, a hosted form API that allowed users to easily send form data to email addresses without the need for server-side scripting or sign up. It explained the key features of Formspree, provided installation instructions for using Formspree and running a self-hosted copy, and mentioned advanced features and AJAX functionality. However, it did not provide complete code snippets for the installation steps.