Stories from the Web Crawling trenches in CAPTCHA

Solving CAPTCHAs with OpenAI's Whisper Using Selenium

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Oct 4, 2023

Automate solving audio CAPTCHAs using OpenAI's Whisper and Selenium. Whisper's powerful speech recognition capabilities paired with Selenium's web automation tool provide an end-to-end pipeline for defeating CAPTCHAs programmatically.

Overcoming CAPTCHAs When Web Scraping with PHP

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Feb 20, 2024

Web scraping guide: handling CAPTCHAs with PHP. Use CAPTCHA solving service, browser automation, or proxy service. Consider ethical concerns.

How do I scrape a difficult website?

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Feb 20, 2024

Web scraping can be tricky, but with persistence and technical knowledge, obstacles like dynamic content and captcha can be overcome.

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