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solveCaptchaImage()

solveCaptchaImage(urlOrPath [, headers, callback])

Solves a CAPTCHA image.

This method takes an URL or a path of an image and sends it to one of our partners for solving.

If your CAPTCHA image is trivial, an OCR algorithm will quickly return the text, otherwise a human will solve it. This process generally takes less than 30 seconds and accuracy is >90%.

When a result string is returned, 1 is substracted from your daily CAPTCHA counter. In less than 10% of the cases the result will be incorrect — retry at will.

This method is asynchronous and returns nothing.
Use the callback to know when it has finished.

— urlOrPath (String)

URL or path of the CAPTCHA image to be solved.

— headers (CasperJS)

HTTP headers to use when fetching the image (optional).
Cookies are automatically set to get the image when using CasperJS or PhantomJS.

— callback (Function(err, result))

Function called when finished (optional).

  • err (String): null or a description of what went wrong if something went wrong.
  • result (String): the solved CAPTCHA text.
const urlOrPath = "https://phantombuster.com/img/logo3-header.png"
const headers = {
  "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8",
  "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0"
}

try {
  const result = await buster.solveCaptchaImage(urlOrPath, headers)
  console.log("The captcha text is:", result)
  //You can fill the input with result to access to the protected data
} catch (err) {
  console.log("Could not solve the captcha image:", err)
}

const urlOrPath = "https://phantombuster.com/img/logo3-header.png"
const headers = {
  "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8",
  "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0"
}

buster.solveCaptchaImage(urlOrPath, headers)
.then((result) => {
  console.log("The captcha text is:", result)
  //You can fill the input with result to access to the protected data
})
.catch((err) => {
  console.log("Could not solve the captcha image:", err)
})

var urlOrPath = "https://phantombuster.com/img/logo3-header.png"
var headers = {
  "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8",
  "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0"
}

buster.solveCaptchaImage(urlOrPath, headers, function(err, result) {
  if (err) {
    console.log("Could not solve the captcha image:", err)
  } else {
    console.log("The captcha text is:", result)
    //You can fill the input with result to access to the protected data
  }
})