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How to solve CAPTCHA in Octoparse?
How to solve CAPTCHA in Octoparse?
Updated over a week ago

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CAPTCHA is a very common anti-scraping technique applied by many websites. There are 4 workarounds to resolve this issue:


1. Resolve CAPTCHA manually under Browse mode when building the task

  • Toggle on Browse mode from the top right corner - resolve the CAPTCHA just like you would do in a normal browser - turn off Browse mode to continue to build your task


2. Save cookies to avoid encountering CAPTCHA

After solving the CAPTCHA in Browse mode, you can also save the current page cookies to reduce the chance of them appearing again.

  • Click on Go to Web Page

  • Go to Options in the Settings section and tick Use cookie

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3. Resolve CAPTCHA manually for local extraction

If the CAPTCHA shows right after the local run starts, you can try this workaround.

  • Go to the Show browser, click Pause directly

  • Manually solve the CAPTCHA in the extraction window

  • Go on the run by clicking the Resume button in the top left corner of the extraction window

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4. Resolve CAPTCHA with Octoparse CAPTCHA solver

Octoparse has included a new feature to solve CAPTCHA automatically. You can check out this tutorial for more details: Resolve Captcha

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