Working with Captcha from external programs
Hello,
I've read several posts in this forum on how to work with dynamic user input that are required during scrapes (ex. captcha, passwords). The general solution seems to be to use JOptionPane.showInputDialog to popup a dialog box and get the user input.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this solution only work if you're at the Screen Scraper Workbench? If you are performing the scrape from an external program (ex. .NET that links to the scraper dll; or a C# Windows app that calls the Scraper SOAP interface), JOptionPane.showInputDialog will not work, right? Any suggestions on how to do it for applications running outside the workbench?
Dick
There's not a way to make a
There's not a way to make a scrape that was called via external application pause and wait for input, so there's isn't a way to insert a human-read response. The only hope is to OCR the CAPTCHA, but that only works on weak CAPTCHA implementations.
Any plans in the pipeline to
Any plans in the pipeline to actually support a "pause" or "suspend" mode when running a scrape that can be "resumed" later? :)
Not at present. Just in
Not at present. Just in workbench mode we've found that human intervention is unreliable, and often takes so long as the CAPTCHA times out anyway, so that's not something we've examined too closely.