For customers or partners who plan to embed our social media walls on their platforms while using our Direct Posts to collect user-generated content, it can be useful to prefill the Direct Posts submission form with data. This way, a user who already is logged in on the embedding platform, does not need to enter their name, email address etc. again.

Pre-filling the Direct Posts form can be achieved by using either # hashtag or normal parameters in the URL. We are currently offering these parameters for pre-fill:

💡 Notice: Please choose either name or first_name and last_name depending on whether you have set up your form to use a single name field or separate fields.

Here's an example for pre-filling Direct Posts when using a direct link to send users to your wall using hashtag parameters:

And here's the same example, but this time using normal URL parameters:

💡 Notice: Please notice that all data needs to be URL-encoded (f.e. using a + sign instead of a blank). You can use this tool to URL-encode your data.

This how the pre-filled form looks like:

When using our iframe- or JavaScript embed code, you can pre-fill the Direct Posts form by adding the hashtag parameters to the embed URL. For the iframe snippet, this is done in the src parameter:

For the JavaScript embed code, please add your data in the data-wallurl parameter: