Hi all,
First and foremost, please do forgive me if this has been posted in the wrong section. I wasn’t sure which sub-thread it should go in. I even tried searching for “Python web automation help” to see where other people had posted similar threads so I could follow suit; however, I couldn’t find anything relevant.
I’ve become increasingly fascinated with coding recently, having been curious about it for the longest time. I thought I’d test the waters with Python web automation just for a bit of fun.
A bit of background: I’m only creating something very basic to get a feel for web automation, and I’ll be completely honest, I’ve had quite a lot of help from Claude AI, which a friend recommended to me.
At the moment, I’m putting together a simple script that allows automatic account creation on a gaming website. I’m using proxies for testing, as you get blocked if you keep visiting the registration page. I’ve now stumbled across the Cloudflare CAPTCHA. I did some digging and found that the only way to automate around this is by using a third-party service such as 2Captcha. Purely for learning purposes, I decided to purchase it as it’s only around $3 for roughly 1,000 uses; however, I’ve hit a wall. I can’t seem to get my script to automatically use 2Captcha to solve it.
I’ve used AI to try to understand what I need to do, and it suggests that I need the Turnstile key. I’ve inspected the widget source and used the browser’s “Inspect” tool to try to locate the key that Cloudflare uses. However, even when I add what I believe to be the relevant section into the script, it simply says “trying to solve Cloudflare” and then eventually the command prompt shows “unable to solve, please solve manually”.
Is anyone able to offer any guidance on this? It’s incredibly satisfying when you finally find a solution and the script works as it should, but equally frustrating when you just can’t get something to function the way you need it to, haha.
Thank you for reading my awfully lengthy post! :D
First and foremost, please do forgive me if this has been posted in the wrong section. I wasn’t sure which sub-thread it should go in. I even tried searching for “Python web automation help” to see where other people had posted similar threads so I could follow suit; however, I couldn’t find anything relevant.
I’ve become increasingly fascinated with coding recently, having been curious about it for the longest time. I thought I’d test the waters with Python web automation just for a bit of fun.
A bit of background: I’m only creating something very basic to get a feel for web automation, and I’ll be completely honest, I’ve had quite a lot of help from Claude AI, which a friend recommended to me.
At the moment, I’m putting together a simple script that allows automatic account creation on a gaming website. I’m using proxies for testing, as you get blocked if you keep visiting the registration page. I’ve now stumbled across the Cloudflare CAPTCHA. I did some digging and found that the only way to automate around this is by using a third-party service such as 2Captcha. Purely for learning purposes, I decided to purchase it as it’s only around $3 for roughly 1,000 uses; however, I’ve hit a wall. I can’t seem to get my script to automatically use 2Captcha to solve it.
I’ve used AI to try to understand what I need to do, and it suggests that I need the Turnstile key. I’ve inspected the widget source and used the browser’s “Inspect” tool to try to locate the key that Cloudflare uses. However, even when I add what I believe to be the relevant section into the script, it simply says “trying to solve Cloudflare” and then eventually the command prompt shows “unable to solve, please solve manually”.
Is anyone able to offer any guidance on this? It’s incredibly satisfying when you finally find a solution and the script works as it should, but equally frustrating when you just can’t get something to function the way you need it to, haha.
Thank you for reading my awfully lengthy post! :D
