Get Started with API

The ALTCHA API offers a straightforward and secure solution for integrating advanced spam filtering capabilities into your applications, eliminating the need to develop and maintain your own infrastructure.

Key benefits include:

• Ease of integration: Requires less coding compared to self-hosting verification. The API handles all complexities behind the scenes.

• Robust security: Features like challenge expiration and reuse protection ensure that submissions cannot be maliciously replayed.

• Spam filtering: The unique Spam Filter classifies data before it even reaches your servers, seamlessly filtering out spam from valid submissions.

This documentation provides guidance on getting started, available methods, and examples to swiftly and securely integrate spam filtering into your applications.

Features

The API provides access to the following features:

• PoW Challenges: Create and verify proof-of-work (PoW) challenges for the ALTCHA widget.
• SpamFilter: Classify data using the SpamFilter.
• Forms: Access and manage forms and their submitted data.

Quick Start

1. Create an API Key.
2. Configure the new challengeurl in the widget.
3. Update your server, whether opting to use the Spam Filter:
   • With spamfilter - implement the server signature verification.
   • Without spamfilter - the mechanism works similarly to self-hosted verification.