Then I logged out, returned to the login page, entered my credentials, pressed the reCAPTCHA box.and it asked me to solve the image selection problem again!Īt this point I'm thinking, I just solved the captcha successfully half a minute ago, exhibited a bunch of manual human actions, but I'm still being identified as a bot. So I solve the captcha and successfully log in.
Now I'm thinking, OK, so if google thinks I'm a bot, how about I solve the captcha in the selenium-launched browser once, let them know I'm good, and then it won't happen again? Maybe it identifies the browser as a new client, and just needs to know that this new client is not a bot. Maybe I just need to solve the captcha once?.So I decided to use my own profile's cache tPreference("_directory", PATH_TO_MY_PROFILE_CACHE) Īnd verified that all of my cached resources are there. In firefox you can see this by going to about:cache and it will say something like anonymous6337741624277931373webdriver-profile\cache2, and there isn't much there. I verified that all of the websites that I have saved my credentials were there in the selenium-launched browser, but when I confronted the reCAPTCHA, it determined I was a bot and asked for image selectionīy default, selenium uses a custom cache path that is cleaned up after the session is over. I can specify a custom profile to use, so I simply passed in my own firefox profile stored in APPDATA/roaming/mozilla/profiles. Selenium by default creates a new profile, so it has no cookies or browsing history. Maybe I don't have any cookies or browsing history?.So the browser starts up, I type in the URL, I click a few other links, I come back to the login page, type in username + password, then proceed to click on the captcha box.and I'm a bot. There are many theories that talk about things like mouse movement, keyboard strokes, etc. So I tried a few different things to try to look more human: Which of course means a lot of stuff is going on under the hood, but perhaps the selenium instance of firefox is not "human" enough? So I'm doing nothing much but starting firefox, using selenium.
#Download google recaptcha bypass driver#
I decided to launch firefox using this piece of java code WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(new FirefoxProfile()) I then became curious what was the difference between me launching firefox through the executable, and me launching firefox through selenium. I started up a regular instance of firefox (that is, without selenium), went to the website, clicked the checkbox, and it determined that I was a human and let me go.
Recently the website changed their login system by adding google's reCAPTCHA, and everytime I try to click the checkbox, google determines that I am a bot and asks me to select a bunch of images. I use selenium to start up firefox and log onto a website to scrape some data a few times a day. Preface: my goal is not to solve captcha using automation tools, but to attempt to understand why a browser that is being launched by selenium is being identified as a bot in the first place, and how selenium contributes to this.