Seance for Ghost

Self-hostable contact form service for Ghost blogs. Or any other applications you can think of. The limit is in your mind.

Add a contact form to your Ghost site without a subscription! Supports captchas from reCAPTCHA and hCaptcha.

Install and run

npm install
npm run build

To run:

npm run start

A docker image ghcr.io/corysanin/seance is provided. A list of tags is available here. See docker-compose.yml.

Configuration

Seance takes a JSON or JSON5 config file (default location is config/config.json5):

{
    // The port the web server will run on (default 8080)
    "port": number,
    // URL prefix, for example: '/seance'
    // Useful for using reverse proxy to use a single domain
    "prefix": string
    // Array of hosts allowed to embed the contact form.
    // Default is to allow all (not recommended)
    allowedHosts: string[],
    // If using reCAPTCHA, provide the site key
    recaptchaKey: string,
    // If using reCAPTCHA, provide the site secret
    recaptchaSecret: string,
    // If using hCaptcha, provide the site key
    hCaptchaKey: string,
    // If using hCaptcha, provide the account secret
    hCaptchaSecret: string,
    // The Nodemailer transport configuration. See https://nodemailer.com/smtp/
    smtp: SMTPTransport | SMTPTransport.Options,
    // The address to send emails from. Defaults to the smtp username
    senderAddress: string,
    // The address to send emails to
    recipientAddress: string,
    // The subject prefix for all mail sent using this form. Default is "Form submission"
    subject: string,
    // Options for express-rate-limit
    limiter: LimiterOptions
}

Ghost Installation

Create a page for your contact form. Add an "Other" embed section. Enter your Seance instance's URL:

https://contact.example.com/?dark=false

If you're using a dark theme you can change the dark parameter to true. Note that the dark mode may look weird in the editor. It will look better on the live site.