Skip to content

GitLab

  • Menu
Projects Groups Snippets
    • Loading...
  • Help
    • Help
    • Support
    • Community forum
    • Submit feedback
    • Contribute to GitLab
  • Sign in / Register
  • 9 9758more-info
  • Project information
    • Project information
    • Activity
    • Labels
    • Members
  • Issues 348
    • Issues 348
    • List
    • Boards
    • Service Desk
    • Milestones
  • Merge requests 0
    • Merge requests 0
  • CI/CD
    • CI/CD
    • Pipelines
    • Jobs
    • Schedules
  • Deployments
    • Deployments
    • Environments
  • Monitor
    • Monitor
    • Incidents
  • Packages & Registries
    • Packages & Registries
    • Package Registry
    • Infrastructure Registry
  • Analytics
    • Analytics
    • Value stream
  • Wiki
    • Wiki
  • Snippets
    • Snippets
  • Activity
  • Create a new issue
  • Jobs
  • Issue Boards
Collapse sidebar
  • Abby Ridley
  • 9758more-info
  • Issues
  • #296

Closed
Open
Created Sep 12, 2026 by Abby Ridley@abbyridley5923Maintainer

Privacy First: Why Solving CAPTCHAs Locally

Before you commit, a low-cost one-week trial includes 1,000 solves, which is plenty enough to evaluate how well it works against your sites. If it does the job, upgrading is just a click in the Members Area.

A Selenium setup is a go-to for browser automation, and CapSkip fits into it cleanly. Your the WebDriver logic unchanged and delegate the CAPTCHA to CapSkip whenever one appears, so the run continues with no manual steps.

Anyone moving from 2Captcha often brace for a messy switch. In practice, because CapSkip emulates the same API, the move comes down to mostly a matter of endpoints plus keeping everything else as it was.

Price monitoring over dozens of sites involves frequent hits, and many of those pages guard themselves with CAPTCHAs. Solving the challenges on your hardware lets your feed current and avoids runaway bills.

Broad language support means CapSkip work with CAPTCHAs across a wide range of languages, which matters the moment the targets are global. That coverage keeps solve rates steady no matter where a site is based.

Solid documentation plus examples make adoption smoother. From the setup guide to the API reference and the FAQ, most questions have answered before you filing a ticket, so your team puts effort on shipping instead of troubleshooting.

Python developers get a simple path with CapSkip, since it emulates the API of popular solving services. In practice, that means aiming existing code at CapSkip with minimal effort - nothing to rebuild.

Classic image and text CAPTCHAs remain extremely common, on sign-up pages to registration screens. CapSkip recognizes thousands of image CAPTCHA variants on your own hardware, usually in about a tenth of a second. That kind of throughput matters when you process high volumes.

Behind the scenes, reCAPTCHA v3 assigns a score from observed behavior instead of a one checkbox. Getting a good token calls for a solver built for that model, which is exactly what CapSkip is built for.

At its core, a CAPTCHA solver interprets a challenge and returns the answer a site is looking for, so an hands-off tool can continue. The difference with CapSkip is everything happens locally - no challenge data leaves your hardware, and you avoid per-solve fees. That combination of privacy and flat pricing is hard to beat for serious automation.

A short switch-over plan keeps the switch smooth: point the API URL at CapSkip, confirm a few live solves, and then flip the main jobs. Since the request format matches major services, most of the work is essentially done.

Proxy support is often necessary for serious automation, and CapSkip plays nicely with them without fuss. Teams can send traffic however your stack needs while still solving CAPTCHAs on your own machine, so behavior consistent across sessions.

The developer API is designed to emulate the request format of the major CAPTCHA-solving services. In practical terms, tools and scripts that already call those services can switch to CapSkip needing little see more than a URL change and zero coding.

Google reCAPTCHA v2 remains one of the most common challenges on the web, from the familiar checkbox to invisible and callback variants. CapSkip handles all of these locally in seconds, which means your automation does not stall whenever one shows up. Since it emulates popular solver APIs, wiring it in tends to be straightforward.

Cloudflare Turnstile has become a common gatekeeper on sites that aim to deter bots without the usual image puzzles. CapSkip clears Turnstile locally within seconds, covering the challenge modes. If you run scrapers that keep hitting Turnstile, that removes a major obstacle.

CapSkip's API was built to mirror the request format of major CAPTCHA-solving services. What this means, scripts and tools that currently call those services are able to point at CapSkip needing minimal changes and zero coding.

Classic image and text CAPTCHAs are still everywhere, on login forms to registration flows. CapSkip recognizes thousands of image CAPTCHA variants locally, typically in about a tenth of a second. That kind of speed adds up when you handle large numbers of challenges.

Python developers have a clean path with CapSkip, which mirrors the request format of major solving services. Often, this means pointing current code at CapSkip with little changes - nothing to rebuild.

A major advantages of running on your own hardware comes down to price. Traditional services charge for each solve, so your bill rise the moment volume increases. CapSkip uses fixed pricing and unlimited solves, so you can scale without watching the meter.

Anyone moving from 2Captcha often brace for a messy migration. In reality, because CapSkip mirrors the familiar API, the change comes down to largely a matter of the endpoint and keeping everything else as it was.

Cloudflare Turnstile has become a common gatekeeper on pages that want to block bots and skip the usual image puzzles. CapSkip clears Turnstile on your machine in a few seconds, covering both challenge and managed variants. For automation that run into Turnstile, this takes away a real obstacle.

Assignee
Assign to
Time tracking