Human checkpoint

My automation gets stuck at a login page or a CAPTCHA

Logins and CAPTCHAs exist to check that a person is present, and an automation isn't one. Let the automation pause at that step and hand it to you in a real browser window.

What you're seeing

The job runs fine until a site asks who you are. Then it either fails, or sits there clicking at a page it can't get past.

Why it happens

How to fix it

  1. Let the automation pause at that step and hand it to you in a real browser window.
  2. Sign in or solve the challenge yourself, then confirm.
  3. The recipe continues from where it stopped, with you having done the one step that needed a person.
The recipe that does it

Let the automation stop and ask you when it hits a login

A browser window opens on the page that needs you. You sign in or solve the challenge, confirm, and the recipe carries on from there.

Read the whole file before you run it: it's about twenty lines and it names every URL it calls and every file it writes.

See the recipe →

The short version

Some steps belong to a human. A good automation knows which ones and asks, instead of pretending it can do everything.

Related questions

Do I have to sit and watch it?

No. It waits at the checkpoint until you come back, up to the timeout in the file.

Does the tool see my password?

No. You type it into the real site, in a normal browser window.

Is this a way around bot protection?

No. A person completes the check. Nothing is bypassed.

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Written and maintained by Adeptus Camini, a one-person workshop. These are tools we build and run ourselves.

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