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Challenge

No CAPTCHA reCaptcha challenge

Sooner or later a new generation of spam protection methods will emerge to block all unwanted site visitors. The recently launched Google “No CAPTCHA reCaptcha” or ReCaptcha v2.0 could just be such a method.

This new behaviour analysis tool is getting more and more attention both from the site owners and from scraping engines who are trying to break it. Since Google does not reveal any secrets of its operation, we want to share with you the techniques used in this new smart analysis CAPTCHA that determines between bot and human. Let s look inside.

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Guest posting

EndCaptcha for fast CAPTCHA solving

endcaptchaFrom time to time, web users struggle with “CAPTCHA services” such as DeCaptcher and DBC. And although those services are reliable, often times they’re “overloaded”, meaning the images to be solved get rejected or it takes a lot of time to be decoded (some services might even take 50 seconds to solve a single image!).

But, I recently came across a new service that hopes to fill this (fast CAPTCHA solving) gap. EndCaptcha.com, is a new image digitization service that was built to satisfy the needs of the most demanding consumers. It uses a dedicated team of operators assisted by a smart OCR system. That’s why it’s being considered a Premium CAPTCHA service. 

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Development

An Example of Captcha Solver in Java

java_captcha Recently I published an article on how to solve captcha in C# using DeathByCaptcha service, and I promised to offer you an example in other languages as well. In this post I’ll offer a Java project that does the same thing.

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Development

How to improve your scraper with “Bypass CAPTCHA”

If you develop an application for web scraping then it would be really nice to upgrade it with automatic captcha recognition.  “Bypass CAPTCHA” service allows you to do this very easily since its focus is on use in third-party software. In this post I’ll show you how easy it is to extend your scraper using this service.

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Development

How to Write a Captcha Solver that uses DeathByCaptcha service

Let’s look at a practical example on how to solve CAPTCHAs using the DeathByCaptcha service. This example is written in C#, but you can get it in Java as well.

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Web Scraping Software

Captcha Breaker Review

GSA Captcha Breaker is a CAPTCHA solving software. It uses Optical Character Recognition algorithms for CAPTCHA decoding. Being a standalone program it works independently of any online captcha recognition services (like DeathByCaptcha, BypassCaptcha and etc). This means that once you have paid for the program you don’t need to pay for each recognition anymore, and this allows you to save money when you need to recognize a huge amount of CAPTCHAs.

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Web Scraping Software

8+ Best CAPTCHA Solvers

In this post we want to share about some decaptcha software and services that we have encountered in our web scraping experience.

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Web Scraping Software

DeCaptcher Review

Recently we came across a CAPTCHA solving service called DeCaptcher. As we proceed with the new Scraper Test Drive stage, we have encountered some off-the-shelf scrapers that use a 3rd party service for CAPTCHA solving. The DeCaptcher service is the most popular among them.

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Web Scraping Software

TEST DRIVE: CAPTCHA

The new Scraper Test Drive stage is on, called CAPTCHA. What can the scrapers perform to get through the “robot fighters”? The off-the-shelf scrapers are not designed for CAPTCHA solving by default. Furthermore, some stated that “bypassing Captchas was compatible with Internet good ethics”. I agree with this, but for the full Scraper Test Drive taste, we still want to try out the scrapers.

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Web Scraping Software

Why are JavaScript CAPTCHAs not reliable?

JavaScript CaptchaWhile we did our CAPTCHA TEST DRIVE we realized that those JavaScript captchas we used for testing (like QapTcha and AJAX FANCY CAPTCHA) can be easily bypassed by sending a couple of simple POST requests.