Collecting IP address once form is completed

[Anonymous]

Hi,

Is there any way to collect a recipient's IP address once they have completed a Marketo form?

Thanks,
Nicole

[Anonymous]

Marketo silently collects the IP address when a lead fills out a form.

That information is accessible through the Activity Log.

Assuming the IP is relevant for GeoLocation or user-defined activities, you can either use SOAP API to retrieve that information of add a JavaScript to save the IP and GeoLocation to custom fields.

The SOAP API call would be getLead or getMultipleLeads

http://developers.marketo.com/documentation/soap/getlead/

http://developers.marketo.com/documentation/soap/getmultipleleads/

getLeadActivity is also a good fit

http://developers.marketo.com/documentation/soap/getleadactivity/

You can then use syncLead or syncMultipleLeads to find the IP and location to custom fields

http://developers.marketo.com/documentation/soap/synclead/

http://developers.marketo.com/documentation/soap/syncmultipleleads/

A small JavaScript allows to read and save that information in one go when the form is saved:

function myIP() {

    if (window.XMLHttpRequest) xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();

    else xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");

    xmlhttp.open("GET","http://api.hostip.info/get_html.php",false);

    xmlhttp.send();

    hostipInfo = xmlhttp.responseText.split("\n");

    for (i=0; hostipInfo.length >= i; i++) {

        ipAddress = hostipInfo[i].split(":");

        if ( ipAddress[0] == "IP" ) return ipAddress[1];

    }

    return false;

}

[Anonymous]

Good approach but the JS example won't work in every browser, plus the ActiveX requirement will fail on restricted machines. But, it shows a common way of getting IP from external provider and using it in a form.

[Anonymous]

Georgi, I totally agree with your reamrks. I am originally Unix user, happy to ambrace Linux and Mac OS X.  

The example is agnostic

$(document).ready(function () {

  $.get('http://jsonip.com', function (res) {

  // assign the IP to a hidden field using res.ip

  });

});

[Anonymous]

Thanks Georgi, helped me out there too!

[Anonymous]

I need to save IP Address to a field in Salesforce for CASL compliance. How can we do this? I dont know Javascript or know where to put this and dont have developer resource or budget to hire Marketo. 

[Anonymous]

We have the same need for a legal requirement in Germany. Where would I put the JS code and how would that populate the hidden field?

Thanks!