The Captcha Addon enhances the security of your interactive experiences by preventing automated bots from engaging with your content. By integrating a captcha challenge, you ensure that only real users can perform certain actions within your application, such as participating in contests.
Image-Based Captcha
The Captcha Addon currently provides an Image-based Captcha to verify that users are human. Users are presented with a grid of images and are asked to select those that match a specific criterion (e.g., “Select all images containing food”).
Benefits of Image-based CAPTCHAs:
- User-Friendly: Easier and quicker for users to complete compared to distorted text challenges.
- Effective Security: Difficult for bots to solve, enhancing protection against automated attacks.
By implementing image-based CAPTCHAs, you strengthen your application’s security while maintaining a smooth user experience.
How to Enable It
- Open the Building Blocks on the left sidebar of the editor
- Search for “Captcha”
- Drag the Captcha Addon onto your project to enable it
- Create a new Captcha Addon and give it a name, e.g. My Captcha
- Follow the settings below and configure the addon
Configure
Customize the Captcha Addon to match your application’s style and provide clear instructions to your users.
Accent Color
Set the accent color to align with your application’s theme. This color will be applied to elements like the captcha’s title, borders, and submit button.
Title
Specify the instructional text that appears above the captcha challenge. This guides users on what they need to do.
By default, the category users will need to select images based upon, is appended to your title, but you can instead include it within your title by typing {category} (including the curly brackets) within your title, so e.g. “Not a bot? Select all {category} images.”.
Connecting to a Draw Addon
Integrate the Captcha Addon with the Draw Addon to secure contests, giveaways, or any interactive elements that involve prize draws.
- Make sure you have enabled the Captcha Addon and created a Captcha Addon instance
- Navigate to the Draw Addon
- Locate the setting “Would you like to protect submissions with a Captcha?“
- Select your Captcha Addon from the Dropdown
- Remember to Save your Draw Addon settings
Whenever the Draw action is ran, a Captcha challenge will be shown for the user to complete.