How to Solve Captcha with Python?
Scraping A Dynamic Website, Part-V: Handling Captcha
Captcha are a big hurdle when we try to scrap some really secure website.
It is said that captcha can be avoided by implementing ‘webdriver waits’ and by reducing pooling frequency. But in my case, it never worked.
How Did I Solve Captcha Then!
Here are some options that I could implement to tackle captcha;
1- put waits and set less polling frequency (never worked for me)
2- use machine learning models (a costly and resource taking method)
3- use speech-to-text or text-to-speech options (easy one, but not always available)
4- use some captcha solving service (I found it to be a best option. It’s cost + resource effective.)
So, I selected option 4. Here is how it works.
Solving Captcha
Just follow the steps.
1- Create an account at https://anti-captcha.com/ and get your ACCESS TOKEN.
2- Download the ‘anticaptcha’ plugin for your browser i.e, chrome, firefox etc. from here. Keep this plugin in your working directory to prevent access problems.
3- Add this in your script
Put this before you start scraping in your script.
That’s all. It worked for me. And, I hope it will work for you too.
Let me be clear, it was not sponsored writing for ‘anti-captcha.com’. I wrote this because I found it useful.
Regards
