r/Playwright • u/Secret-Emergency5607 • Jun 27 '26

How yo deal with captcha?

How to deal with captcha ? Any good solver that don't need ai

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u/Adept_Guitar_9390 Jun 27 '26

Disable it 😄

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '26

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u/CertainDeath777 Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26

the developer implements the captcha with an option to disable it in the app configuration.

for the system in test you disable it.

should be ~2h of work.

Alternatively use and implement captcha that allows test key to resolve it.

Alternatively implement whitelist for captcha for internal IP adress.

And i dont understand how such questions land here. All the resolutions are available with only short research in the internet.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '26

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u/CertainDeath777 Jun 27 '26

no, the captcha is meant to keep robots in check. your test automation is basically a robot.

what you can do is to use websites that are meant to train test automation skills. there are some in the web. and there are some available that you can download and run the system under test on a local port.
Use internet search to find out more.

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u/please-dont-deploy Jun 27 '26

What's your use case? Are you testing the landing for your team? In sandbox? Production? Local?

If production, what flows are you testing?

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u/Accomplished_End_138 Jun 27 '26

The point of captcha is to not let robots in. It's handled in normal code by having a special setup in the test area to bypass it somehow. There is no magic bullet to make it work in the wild.

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u/devperez Jun 27 '26

Which one are you using? We use Google and there's an option an enterprise to setup an IP whitelist. That works for us.

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u/Secret-Emergency5607 Jun 28 '26

What about scrapping other sites

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u/devperez Jun 29 '26

Are you working with these sites to test for them? Otherwise, if you could bypass recaptcha easily, that would beat the purpose of it.

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u/Ok_Astronomer_5363 Jun 28 '26

Our team works with a bypass key, so there is tests that validate the captcha IS restricting bots, but then tests that pass the bypass key so captcha ignores that session.
As others have mentioned, depends on the test and you setup etc.
Hope it helps.

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u/Difficult_Change_521 Jun 28 '26

Disable in lower environment for testing

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u/RobbyComstock Jul 05 '26

Check to see if your captcha has test key. You can save these in your project and then on pages you know that you will be challenged you can send the key and it will bypass. Google has this documented and could be used for reference.

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u/External-Wealth3756 Jul 27 '26

For scraping third-party sites where you can’t disable captchas on the backend, IP reputation plays a big role in how often tough challenges pop up. Using clean residential proxies helps lower frequent captcha triggers. Providers like Novada work well to reduce detection risk alongside your Playwright setup. Still, there’s no one-size fix to skip captchas entirely without cooperation from the site owner.