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Anonymous
April 19, 2016
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How do I send the data to external API after a form is submitted on a landing page ?

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I have a marketo form on another landing page. I need to hit another external API to send the form data when the form is submitted. Please let me know what is the way of doing this in marketo.

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Grégoire_Miche2
Grégoire_Miche2
Level 10
April 19, 2016

Hi Nitish,

Use a webhook, as per your other post earlier today (Call webhook on form submission ). This is the only mechanism in Marketo than enables Marketo server to call an external service.

You also could use some Javascript on your LP and the forms 2.0 API (Forms 2.0 » Marketo Developers ​) but this would be a client side integration (the call would be done from the visitor's browser).

-Greg

    SanfordWhiteman
    SanfordWhiteman
    Level 10
    April 19, 2016

    Nitish, please provide details about this "external API."  There's no single correct answer here.  As Greg mentioned, you can use a webhook to call an external API from the server side. However, if the API is equipped for cross-domain communication, you can call it from the browser which is far more efficient (there is no reason to involve the Marketo server in the transaction, as it just creates a possible bottleneck).

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    Anonymous
    April 20, 2016

    Hi Stanford, We want to directly feed a lead to our product 'ConnectAndSell' from Marketo form which in turn will dial the lead and will connect them to the users. Yes the API is equipped with cross-domain communication.

    Grégoire_Miche2
    Grégoire_Miche2
    Level 10
    April 20, 2016

    Hi Nitish,

    Then you will need to call the API from the browser, on form submit. This will be done using the Javascript Forms 2.0 API. In the line of

    MktoForms2.loadForm("//app-sjst.marketo.com", "785-UHP-775", 1057, function(form) {

        // Add an onSubmit handler

        form.onSubmit(function(){

            // Get the form field values

            var vals = form.vals();

            // You may wish to call other function calls here, for example to fire google analytics tracking or the like

            // callSomeFunction(vals);

            // We'll just alert them to show the principle

            alert("Submitted values: " + JSON.stringify(vals));

        });

    });

    -Greg

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