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I have written multiple crawlers for sites like facebook with them. import urllib2;urllib2.urlopen("http://learnpythonthehardway.com/login http://learnpythonthehardway.com/login).read() Since you only want basic protection, you could avoid the visual captcha all together and have the "Fill out captcha" button auto-submit.