Title: Dynamic External Data Sources
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Dynamic External Data Sources

 *  Resolved [bay-fish.com](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bay-fishcom/)
 * (@bay-fishcom)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dynamic-external-data-sources/)
 * Can your forms pull in data from an external data source like
 * [https://www.quandl.com/help/api](https://www.quandl.com/help/api)
 * or
 * [http://api.stlouisfed.org/docs/fred/?utm_source=research&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=data-tools](http://api.stlouisfed.org/docs/fred/?utm_source=research&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=data-tools)
 * to be used in calculations?
    or used in a field to be sent with the form and 
   the time it was submitted?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/caldera-forms/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/caldera-forms/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [David Cramer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/desertsnowman/)
 * (@desertsnowman)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dynamic-external-data-sources/#post-5413146)
 * Absolutely. There are plenty of filters to work with to both pre-populate and
   alter shifted data.
    I’ll follow up a little later with the exact filters to 
   use.
 *  Plugin Contributor [David Cramer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/desertsnowman/)
 * (@desertsnowman)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dynamic-external-data-sources/#post-5413155)
 * are you ok with working with code to achieve this?
 *  Plugin Contributor [David Cramer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/desertsnowman/)
 * (@desertsnowman)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dynamic-external-data-sources/#post-5413161)
 * I created an example for you using quandl.com and used it in the docs. Take a
   look at: [http://docs.calderaforms.com/caldera_forms_render_get_field_slug-field_slug/](http://docs.calderaforms.com/caldera_forms_render_get_field_slug-field_slug/)
 *  Thread Starter [bay-fish.com](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bay-fishcom/)
 * (@bay-fishcom)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dynamic-external-data-sources/#post-5413235)
 * Yes. I’m not a PHP developer but I was to learn,
 *  I manage and do custom WordPress sites so I know how to add code to WordPress
   functions.php file.
 * I’ll take a look. Thank you.
 *  Plugin Contributor [David Cramer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/desertsnowman/)
 * (@desertsnowman)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dynamic-external-data-sources/#post-5413244)
 * Great. Let me know how it goes.

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