How to Solve Amazon captcha using Python

Are you tired of being halted by CAPTCHA challenges while scraping data from Amazon? In this guide, we'll walk you through solving Amazon CAPTCHAs effortlessly using Python, with the help of Capsolver.

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Why Solve Amazon CAPTCHAs?

Amazon, like many other websites, employs CAPTCHA challenges to prevent automated bots from accessing their data. While CAPTCHAs serve a valuable security purpose, they can be a hindrance when you're trying to scrape product information or other data from the platform.

Introducing Capsolver

Capsolver offers a powerful solution for automating CAPTCHA solving tasks. With its user-friendly API and extensive documentation, Capsolver makes it easy to integrate CAPTCHA solving capabilities into your Python scripts.

Using Python to Solve Amazon CAPTCHAs

Below is a simple Python script that demonstrates how to use Capsolver to solve Amazon CAPTCHAs:

Create Task

Create a task with the createTask to create a task.

Task Object Structure

Properties	Type	Required	Description
type	String	Required	FunCaptchaTaskProxyLess
websiteURL	String	Required	Web address of the website using funcaptcha, generally it's fixed value. (Ex: https://google.com)
websitePublicKey	String	Required	The domain public key, rarely updated. (Ex: E8A75615-1CBA-5DFF-8031-D16BCF234E10)
funcaptchaApiJSSubdomain	String	Optional	A special subdomain of funcaptcha.com, from which the JS captcha widget should be loaded. Most FunCaptcha installations work from shared domains.
data	String	Optional	Additional parameter that may be required by FunCaptcha implementation. Use this property to send "blob" value as a stringified array. See example how it may look like. {"\blob":"HERE_COMES_THE_blob_VALUE"} Learn how to get FunCaptcha blob data
proxy	String	Optional	Learn Using proxies

Example Request

POST https://api.capsolver.com/createTask
Host: api.capsolver.com
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "clientKey": "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE",
    "task": {
        "type":"FunCaptchaTaskProxyLess", //Required
        "websiteURL":"", //Required
        "websitePublicKey":"", //Required
        "data": "{\"blob\": \"flaR60YY3tnRXv6w.l32U2KgdgEUCbyoSPI4jOxU...\"}" // Optional
    }
}

After you submit the task to us, you should receive in the response a 'Task id' if it's successfull. Please read errorCode: full list of errors if you didn't receive the task id.

Example Response

{
    "errorId": 0,
    "status": "idle",
    "taskId": "61138bb6-19fb-11ec-a9c8-0242ac110006"
}

Getting Result

Use the getTaskResult method to get the recognition results

Depending on the system load, you will get the results within the interval of 1s to 20s

Example Request

POST https://api.capsolver.com/getTaskResult
Host: api.capsolver.com
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "clientKey": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    "taskId": "61138bb6-19fb-11ec-a9c8-0242ac110006"
}

Example Response

{
    "errorId": 0,
    "solution": {
        "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
        "token": "3AHJ_q25SxXT-pmSeBXjzScW-EiocHwwpwqtk1QXlJnGnU......"
    },
    "status": "ready"
}

Solving Amazon Imagetotext

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Create Task

Create the task with the createTask.

Task Object Structure

Note that this type of task returns the task execution result directly after createTask, rather than getting it asynchronously through getTaskResult.

Properties	Type	Required	Description
type	String	Required	ImageToTextTask
websiteURL	String	Optional	Page source url to improve accuracy
body	String	Required	base64 encoded content of the image (no newlines) (no data:image/*; base64, content
module	String	Optional	Specifies the module. Currently, the supported modules are common and queueit
score	Float	Optional	0.8 ~ 1, Identify the matching degree. If the recognition rate is not within the range, no deduction
case	Boolean	Optional	Case sensitive or not

Example Request

POST https://api.capsolver.com/createTask
Host: api.capsolver.com
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "clientKey": "YOUR_API_KEY",
  "task": {
    "type": "ImageToTextTask",
    "websiteURL": "https://xxxx.com",
    // You can choose the module you need to use
    // ocr single image model, default common
    "module": "queueit",
    // base64 encoded image
    "body": "/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABA......"
  }
}

Example Response

{
  "errorId": 0,
  "errorCode": "",
  "errorDescription": "",
  "status": "ready",
  "solution": {
    "text": "44795sds"
  },
  "taskId": "2376919c-1863-11ec-a012-94e6f7355a0b"
}

Conclusion

With Capsolver and Python, solving Amazon CAPTCHAs becomes a breeze. By integrating Capsolver's API into your Python scripts, you can overcome CAPTCHA challenges and streamline your web scraping workflow. Say goodbye to CAPTCHA frustrations and hello to efficient data scraping on Amazon!

Documentation

Capsolver API documentation