I’ve had this ‘master plan’ of taking on Google’s reCAPTCHA with some of the web automation tricks I’ve learnt, and I had been sitting on the idea for quite a while now – months.

So I figured that I actually wasn’t going to carry out the master plan. Instead I’d already created a working proof of concept leveraging Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (gotta drop those terms for the search engines, yup) via a model that’s already well-trained – the Clarifai API.

The master plan would be training my own model either on Clarifai or Tensorflow (using Google to crack Google = awesome).

Now that they’re coming out with this invisible reCAPTCHA thing – which I really don’t think is worth hyping about. I’d be interested to see once it’s fully released whether I can get my script to pick it up and solve it, I’m sure I could.

Anyway, here is what I’ve been able to do with just under 400 lines of JavaScript (Selenium + WebdriverIO + Node.js + the Clarifai API) – need to post this content before it gets too stale.

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