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November 7, 2019

Bypassing CAPTCHAs with Headless Chrome - Jarrod Overson - Medium

You’ve seen CAPTCHAs all over the internet for over a decade now. Those squiggly lines, words, or numbers that block your way when you try to log in, sign up, or post a comment anywhere.

CAPTCHAs (or Completely Automated Public Turing tests to tell Computers and Humans Apart) are designed to be a gate that lets humans through and robots (programs) out. The squiggly lines and wiggly words are less common nowadays and they have been replaced by version 2 of Google’s reCAPTCHA. This is the CAPTCHA that gives you the green checkmark as long as your humanity quotient is deemed high enough.

https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer/blob/master/docs/api.md