Can I pre populate forms that I don't own/administer

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leadsupplier

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Here's what i want to do. I want my users to fill in their basic info in my own form, first name, last name, email.

Then if they are interested in say an auto insurance offer, i present them with it, but i want their basic info to already be pre populated in those matching fields.

They will still need to fill out the rest, but i will have eased the pain a little bit.

is this possible?
 


The form that you are linking to has to be set up to accept pre-popping.

for example if I have a form I might set the first name to $_GET['fname'] and have a clause to make it blank if it can't find anything.

It is impossible to send data to a form that isn't ready to accept it.
 
was expecting this answer

is it really impossible tho?

the reason accepting pre pop isn't the greatest is b/c i've only seen it for email submits.

the way i was thikning it would be done is more manually. basically mimicing on the other sites what a user would do.

so like

User enters info on my site > bot gets info and enters it into other sites.
 
I'll accept that it's not impossible. But even if you create some sort of super bot that fills info into other sites, your lead quality is likely to be shit.

People will just be clicking through to get to whatever end result you have set up.

Why not look into host and post offers. There are some great ones floating around. Also you should learn PHP. PHP is nuclear.
 
can you tell me more about host and post offers? i've never heard of them before...

also, i don't want to bombard the user and get shitty lead quality. i'd want them to actually WANT to sign up for the offers, but at the same time make it easier for them to sign up by pre populating some forms for them
 
as he said, the main way around this is host and post. which you can do both in a legit (with explicit agreement of the merchant) and not so legit fashion (by scraping their form, hosting it on your box and submitting the POST query directly to their setup script). obviously teh latter isnt exactly a recommended way to do it and likely to simply get you banned from the program if the lead quality suffers because of that.
 
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