Bots.lol

Are You a Bot?

Y -

Let's talk Captchas for a second. They suck even when you're human. Use a VPN? Captcha. Privacy plugins? Captcha. Botting, scrapping, etc? Oh yeah. So when are you getting a captcha? Well I recently came across this handy dandy website which gives you a captcha score. Normally, for an upstanding citizen you're looking at a score between 0.7-1. But, as long as you are not under the websites threshold it doesn't really matter.

  "success": true,    
  "hostname": "recaptcha-demo.appspot.com",    
  "challenge_ts": "2020-07-24T__:__:__Z",    
  "apk_package_name": null,    
  "score": 0.7,    
  "action": "examples/v3scores",    
  "error-codes": []    
}

Let's Load Selenium

Ouch!

OUCH. As you can see a 0.1 is pretty bad and doesn't meet the threshold. You'll definitely get hit by a captcha for whatever you're doing. Let's do a few things to make selenium seem a bit friendlier.

First of all.... Let's tell WebDriver to not fucking tell the world you're a bot.

driver.ExecuteChromeCommand("Page.addScriptToEvaluateOnNewDocument",
    new System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary<string, object> {
            { "source", @"
                Object.defineProperty(navigator, 'webdriver', {
                    get: () => undefined
                })"
            }
        }
    );

Thanks WebDriver! 🙄

  1. Browse a friendly site and get a couple cookies. Maybe a minute?
  2. Search something from a 'good' IP, aka don't get flagged for your shitty free proxy/vpn.
  3. Don't go directly there. Use the website's flow. Site Home -> Link. Better yet. Google -> Site Home -> Link. Bonus points if they reliabily have an ad!

Let's see how we did?

2 minutes of human browsing!

Look at that. A respectable 0.9, no one is flagging our actions! And as you can see from the timestamp it was roughly 10 min for me to code a quick 'action routine' to be a good upstanding internet citizen, run the code, and hit the target page.