Slack Integration: How to Pass Form Filler's IP Address in Notifications

Hello team,

I hope all is well.

How to collect IP address of Form filler and pass it throught native slack integration via Jotform?

The goal is to be notified in slack through native integration of the form:


pretty much i want to see the source IP address in the notification. I checked the available fields, they are the form fields that i added. no IP fields available.

Hi Khaled, Thanks for reaching out to Jotform Support. I'm an AI assistant here to assist you.

Regarding your question on collecting the IP address of form fillers and passing it through the native Slack integration in Jotform, here is what I found:

Jotform's native Slack integration allows you to send form submission notifications to Slack channels or users, including form field data you have added. However, the IP address of the form filler is not included by default as a form field or in the Slack notification payload.

To achieve your goal of seeing the source IP address in Slack notifications, you would need to capture the IP address in your form submissions first. Jotform automatically captures the IP address of the submission, but it is not exposed as a form field that can be directly added to Slack messages through the native integration settings.

One possible workaround is to use Jotform's webhook integration to send submission data, including the IP address, to an external service or script that then formats and sends a customized Slack message including the IP address. This requires setting up a webhook endpoint that receives submission data and posts to Slack via Slack's API.

Alternatively, you can check if you can customize the Slack message template in the integration settings to include the IP address if Jotform exposes it as a variable, but based on the current native integration options, this is not available.

In summary, the native Slack integration does not directly support including the source IP address in notifications. You would need to use a webhook or custom integration to achieve this.

Give it a try and let us know how it goes.

Alternatively, you can check if you can customize the Slack message template in the integration settings to include the IP address if Jotform exposes it as a variable, but based on the current native integration options, this is not available.

The native slack integration from the form do not have an IP address field.

please adivse.

One possible workaround is to use Jotform's webhook integration to send submission data, including the IP address, to an external service or script that then formats and sends a customized Slack message including the IP address. This requires setting up a webhook endpoint that receives submission data and posts to Slack via Slack's API.

Can you advise? Create new webhook from the form, there, i should see option to pass Client IP address?
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Hi Khaled,

Unfortunately, it is not possible for the Slack integration to pass the IP address collected from your users. Podo’s suggestion of using the Jotform API to pass data through Slack is feasible, but you’ll need custom developers to implement this, as neither Podo nor the Jotform support team can manually create a webhook that integrates with Slack.

You can check out our Jotform Solutions Partner Directory for a list of consultants who've asked to be included. 

You can get in touch with the right Solutions Partner for you by sorting them by location, type of service, industry, language support, or partner tier. Just fill out the contact form for the Jotform partner you'd like to work with, so they can make the necessary preparations to help you.

Keep in mind, though, that these parties operate independently of Jotform, so we assume no responsibility or liability for their work or their actions. 

Meanwhile, I’ve gone ahead and moved your other question to a separate thread to keep things tidy, and someone from our Support Team will help you out with it here.

Let us know if you have any other questions.