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As someone who scrapes, captcha's are pretty silly. One of the sites we scrape implemented hCaptcha, and it was a breeze to get around. There are a few things t
by tuckerconnelly 6y ago
As someone who scrapes, captcha's are pretty silly. One of the sites we scrape implemented hCaptcha, and it was a breeze to get around. There are a few things that make my life more difficult, but captchas aren't one of them, and nothing can stop scraping altogether.
- alexnewman 6y agoHow'd you do it?
- driverdan 6y agoI'm not OP but there are cheap solving services that will fill them in for you. The cost is trivial and they have decent APIs for automatic integration into scrapers.
- londons_explore 6y agomany captchas let you fill them in once and then use the resulting cookie to do whatever else you like on the site. Just manually copy the cookie to your bot hosts.
- hombre_fatal 6y agoMeh, there's always going to be a longtail of targeted abuse so it's not much to boast over. Xrumer software in 2001 could even let you sit at your computer and fill out those common PHP-lib captchas (like on EZBoard) while Xrumer spammed internet forums and blogs. You could even hire a cubicle farm of humans to manually abuse a web service. Captchas filter out the 90% bulk of automated abuse. Btw, web scraping is on the nearly harmless side of abuse.
- tuckerconnelly 6y agoThat makes sense that there's longtail abuse, thanks. What would you say is more harmful abuse? Spamming endpoints for SQL and other injection attacks?