Handling CAPTCHA with Playwright

 🚫 Important Disclaimer

Bypassing CAPTCHAs without permission may violate terms of service. Always ensure your automation is legal and ethical, especially for web scraping.


🔍 1. Detecting and Avoiding CAPTCHAs

Before attempting to solve them, try to avoid triggering them:


Use realistic user-agents


Add random delays (to simulate human interaction)


Avoid rapid or repetitive access


Rotate IPs (with proxies or VPNs)


Enable JavaScript (CAPTCHAs often appear when JS is disabled)


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const { chromium } = require('playwright');


(async () => {

  const browser = await chromium.launch({ headless: false }); // use headful mode

  const context = await browser.newContext({

    userAgent: 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64)...',

    locale: 'en-US',

  });


  const page = await context.newPage();

  await page.goto('https://example.com');

})();

🧠 2. Solving CAPTCHAs Automatically (When Permissible)

🤖 a. Image-Based CAPTCHAs (e.g., reCAPTCHA v2 Checkbox)

Use external CAPTCHA-solving services:


2Captcha, Anti-Captcha, CapSolver, etc.


Integrate using their API


Example: 2Captcha with reCAPTCHA

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const axios = require('axios');


const response = await axios.post('http://2captcha.com/in.php', {

  key: 'YOUR_API_KEY',

  method: 'userrecaptcha',

  googlekey: 'SITE_KEY',

  pageurl: 'https://example.com',

});


// Then poll for the result

After solving, inject the response into the g-recaptcha-response textarea:


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await page.evaluate(`document.getElementById("g-recaptcha-response").innerHTML="${captchaSolution}"`);

⚠️ b. reCAPTCHA v3 or Invisible reCAPTCHA

These monitor behavior, so mimic human-like actions carefully. Services like 2Captcha support this too, but success rates vary.


🎨 3. Use Browser Plugins or Human-in-the-Loop

If fully automatic handling fails:


Integrate human solvers


Launch the browser visibly and allow manual CAPTCHA solving


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const browser = await chromium.launch({ headless: false });

🛠️ 4. Playwright Plugin: playwright-extra (with stealth)

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npm install playwright-extra playwright-extra-plugin-stealth

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const { chromium } = require('playwright-extra');

const stealth = require('playwright-extra-plugin-stealth')();

chromium.use(stealth);


const browser = await chromium.launch({ headless: false });

Helps bypass some bot detection mechanisms and reduce CAPTCHA appearance.


❌ 5. Not Recommended

Avoid attempts like image processing or machine learning to solve image CAPTCHAs directly—they're rarely reliable and often against TOS.


✅ Best Practices

Use stealth plugins


Avoid CAPTCHA triggers


Use legal CAPTCHA-solving APIs when needed


Prefer manual solving for one-off or low-scale tasks

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