topic Re: Adding a Captcha survey 123 in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

Adding a Captcha survey 123

SamuelRoss — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 16:31:38 GMT

Is there a way to add a Captcha or a Captcha like thing to a user created survey in survey123? Thanks

Re: Adding a Captcha survey 123

JohnathanHasthorpe — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 10:33:20 GMT

Hi Samuel

This functionality is not supported in the web form, but we will add this as a potential future enhancement.

Thanks

John

Re: Adding a Captcha survey 123

JohnathanHasthorpe — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 10:36:11 GMT

Also could you share your use case? It would be good get an understanding of what you are wanting to do. There may be other options.

Thanks

John

Re: Adding a Captcha survey 123

SamuelRoss — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 15:52:53 GMT

Ah, okay. Thanks a lot

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 4:34 AM, Johnathan Hasthorpe <geonet@esri.com>

Re: Adding a Captcha survey 123

SamuelRoss — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 19:30:19 GMT

Ya for my case we are publishing a document to the public and my supervisors in the government want to have a captcha so as to prevent any bot use. The survey will be posted on a government website so they are concerned about bot usage

Re: Adding a Captcha survey 123

KelleeKoenig1 — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 14:16:45 GMT

Has this been enabled? We're interested in having a Survey123 form as part of a public-facing website, and the previous website's crowdsourcing efforts resulted in a lot of bot junk.

Re: Adding a Captcha survey 123

JamesTedrick — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 20:05:29 GMT

Hi Kellee,

We are still examining this. In your previous experiences, were you able to tell if the bot junk was coming via the form page or from direct submissions to the form's submission endpoint (in ArcGIS terms, the feature layer's Service URL)?

Re: Adding a Captcha survey 123

KelleeKoenig1 — Thu, 02 May 2019 21:55:02 GMT

I wasn't involved in the previous website, but received this info from a colleague:

"I think that most of the spam was coming from the 'contact us' form (which does not require sign-in). We were also getting spam submissions for PADDD events, which does require log in."

The Survey123 form would be for reporting these events.

Re: Adding a Captcha survey 123

JamesTedrick — Thu, 02 May 2019 22:08:33 GMT

Hi Kellee,

Thanks for providing the information. It seems strange that the from that required a login was also getting spam. It seems possible that while the web page a person used to fill in the form was password protected, the submission endpoint (web page/resource that received the form's data) was not. CAPTCHA would not necessarily helped if this was the case - it's concerned with checking for the page that people use to fill out the form.

Re: Adding a Captcha survey 123

DSIProvince_Nord — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 22:19:24 GMT

Hi there,

The new EU Regulation regarding the gathering of personal data (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32016R0679) means we now have to add captcha to every public survey which collects nominative information.

Addin a captcha, regardless of how effective it is, will be mandatory for such surveys.

Re: Adding a Captcha survey 123

JamesTedrick — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 20:03:48 GMT

Hi,

Can you provide details on what part of the legislation you believe requires CAPTCHA? I am admittedly not a lawyer; I did a scan of the English translation of the document and it seems to pertain to the processing and storage of personal information. CAPTCHA is concerned with ensuring that the data being submitted comes from a non-automated system, so it doesn't seem directly applicable.

Re: Adding a Captcha survey 123

PatriciaSaint-Vincent — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 13:38:57 GMT

Does anyone know if the issue about adding Captcha to Survey123 has been resolved? My government organization also requires that I add Captcha to my survey, as it is part of a Citizen Science project.

Re: Adding a Captcha survey 123

JamesTedrick — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 18:01:23 GMT

Hi Patricia,

Currently we are still investigating requirements and alternatives. Does your agency have a description of the requirement for a CAPTCHA-like system?

Re: Adding a Captcha survey 123

PatriciaSaint-Vincent — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 18:04:32 GMT

No, they simply asked for Captcha.

Re: Adding a Captcha survey 123

DSIProvince_Nord — Sun, 11 Aug 2019 20:58:51 GMT

Hi,

James Tedrick is right, it is more related to security against bots than anonimity.

Anyway we found a solution by asking our webmaster to add a captcha before displaying the Survey123 iFrame.

Re: Adding a Captcha survey 123

ChristopherJennings4 — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 17:57:03 GMT

Hello,

This would be a valuable addition to Survey123. Especially useful for weeding out bogus submissions to the local government agencies.

Re: Adding a Captcha survey 123

ChrisWoodward — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 18:43:52 GMT

Is there an existing enhancement request for adding this?

Re: Adding a Captcha survey 123

JamesTedrick — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 22:45:29 GMT

Hi,

I don't see an existing Idea or Enhancement request for this. That being said, currently a CAPTCHA would be of limited use in that it would be able to protect the web page from loading automatically but would not protect the feature service submission endpoint, which can be reached outside of the Survey123 application. This is still a topic of research for the Survey123 team; if a solution to that issue can be found, it would make a CAPTHA implementation a viable enhancement.

Re: Adding a Captcha survey 123

Pabryant4582 — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 18:01:19 GMT

This should be an absolute requirement. Public facing surveys for government use typically also have email notification embedded in the workflow and not having captcha or similar antibot prevents tainted data along with potentially compromising the organization’s emailing service.

Re: Adding a Captcha survey 123

VirajP — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 21:53:18 GMT

Any updates on a Captcha type feature for public facing web forms?