How to turn off automated captcha solving

If you want to scrape Google search results, but don’t have any SCM captcha credits you can disable the automated captcha solving.

Detected captchas will instead wait for a manual solve to progress.

If there are captchas and they are not sovled, SCM will give up and use Bing search instead.

Options to avoid captchas:

Turn off automated captcha solving (manual solve)

In settings > toggle off solve captchas

When Google requests captchas, SCM will wait for you to solve them.

A window will popup with the captcha.

Solve the captcha.

Once captcha is solved, window is hidden again and SCM continues.

SCM continues…

Use Bing to avoid captchas

You can switch to a different search engine to bypass the need for captchas.

Settings > search engine
Select Bing or DuckDuckGo

Use a paid scraper service

You can also use a paid scraping service to access Google results.

They will manage proxies and solve captchas for you.

SepAPI and ScrapeOwl are currently supported.

Don’t forget to enter API keys for them.

Google captcha bypass method

If you must use Google, you can try this work-around.

Login to a Google account so that Google shows less captchas.

How to bypass the automatic Google captcha request when scraping Google

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