Summary
This chapter showed how to solve CAPTCHAs, first by using OCR, and then with an external API. For simple CAPTCHAs, or for when you need to solve a large amount of CAPTCHAs, investing time in an OCR solution can be worthwhile. Otherwise, using a CAPTCHA solving API can prove to be a cost effective alternative.
In the next chapter, we will introduce Scrapy, which is a popular high-level framework used to build scraping applications.
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