8 Jul
2026
8 Jul
'26
11:34 a.m.
A homemade captcha? A word in an obscure language with a "can you read
this?" and a [yes]/[no]
Correct answer is no.
On Wed, Jul 8, 2026 at 11:24 AM The Doctor via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Jul 7, 2026, 16:12 by cctalk(a)classiccmp.org:
it. Inhave noticed many bots use the same exact
probe progression, there
must be a popular scraper bot you can download
Libraries to write website scrapers are pretty common these days. I took a quick
look at my
links database and there are at least 30 that are actively maintained and in common use
these
days. There are also a few books out there on writing website scrapers, which might
account
for why they act so similarly.
Of course, asking ChatGPT or the like to write a scraper for you would result in scrapers
that
act pretty much the same as well.
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