VentureOnline 49 Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 Just curious if anyone has any good methods to automatically beat these type of captchas. Death by captcha and the other captcha services just retype the question rather than answering it. You can see an example of these type of captchas over at http://edublogs.org/signup/ Sometimes they're simple math but many times they are simple questions. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
VaultBoss 310 Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 For the math ones you could either scrape it and extract the math operation and work it with $eval, but alternatively you can also use good ol' Google:https://www.google.com/search?q=What+is+the+answer+to+5+times+3+%3D&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 For the other ones (like the what is the first month of year, etc...) maybe try Yahoo Answers?.. The trick would be to be able to write code to interpret the answers... probably scrape the highest rated answer on the page or such, dunno... Another way would be to try and refresh the page many many times with fresh cookies and all and scrape as many Qs as possible. It looks like that particular site wouldn't have quite so many variations. Then add all possible Qs to a list and add the correct answers too. Chances are, even if you don't get ALL the Qs and corresponding As, you'll get a good sizable portion of them. For instance, there could only be 12 variations for the month of the year Q, right? 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rocket976 62 Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 Nice thanks for the google goodie VB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AutomationNinja 194 Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 The math ones are easy and my favourite Quote Link to post Share on other sites
VaultBoss 310 Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 Here is for the month of year: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_second_month_in_the_year Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AutomationNinja 194 Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 Nice one VB... again! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
VaultBoss 310 Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 Nice one VB... again! Thanks, mate! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HelloInsomnia 1103 Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 Too bad not all of the questions will give you just the answer for wiki answers - that would be very handy. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_legs_does_a_spider_have Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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