Getting Past Security Images
Hi,
I was wondering how I can get past those security images using Screen-Scraper.
the site I need to scrape has a security feature on a sub page when I do a search. it pops up a random image and i have to enter the text in the image to continue.
I know the program cannot enter this information automatically as the image changes every time, but is there a way to enter the necessary text in manually and then proceed with the processing of the follwing pages?
I'd appreciate any insights you have to get around this problem
you can see an example of what i mean if you use godaddy's whois search. that is not the site I need to scrape, but it uses the same image security technology. ex: http://who.godaddy.com/whoischeck.aspx?domain=screen-scraper.com&prog_id...
Getting Past Security Images
Hi,
This is called a CAPTCHA mechanism (here), and we encounter them from time to time. Some of them are implemented poorly such that you may be able to do something like submit a hidden form value each time to circumvent them. If they've been implemented correctly, however, your best bet is to probably download the image from the web page, display it to the user, allow the user to type in the value, then send that value with the other POST parameters. Doing this would probably require some Java Swing programming within a screen-scraper script.
Depending on how familiar you are with Java programming that may or may not be enough to get you started. Feel free to post a reply if I can offer any other advice.
Kind regards,
Todd Wilson