Screen Scrapping - Read Captcha

Question

Hi, I am working on Screen Scrapping, I was able to do, but some of the website have captcha and need to enter captcha information to proceed further

Is there anyway to read captcha information and submit those values that are in captcha or how can we handle this scenario ?

Thanks

Answer 1

There are tools that are able to solve captchas. A very popular one is pwntcha. Before hitting a page with automated requests and solving captchas you should ask the website owner for permission. He/She might grant you access to the page without showing the captcha.

Answer 2

Get a screenshot of captcha at positions x1,y1 - x2,y2. Send and show it to operator (maybe, to yourself). Reply to it with a hotkey F1-F5 (bind them to your software to quickly switch into captcha area). == ~1000 captchas/hour.

Answer 3

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