TextCaptcha

A Python library for using text-based CAPTCHAs from http://textcaptcha.com/.

This is a simple wrapper around the TextCaptcha API which is a service which provides text-based CAPTCHA questions which helps to prevent spam from robots.

This is designed to be implemented into a server-side application such as a Discord Bot, IRC, SMS, etc...

Note: The TextCaptcha API is only suitable for low traffic websites. For more than 5 requests per second, your usage will be rate limited.

Installation

Use pip to install on all systems:

pip install textcaptcha

Usage Example

This example will ask a CAPTCHA question and ask for an answer which is then checked against the actual answer.

import textcaptcha

# Create a captcha fetcher to fetch captcha questions from the API
fetcher = textcaptcha.CaptchaFetcher()
# Fetch a new captcha from the API
captcha = fetcher.fetch()

# Print the captcha question to the console
print(captcha.question)
# Get a response from the user
answer = input("Answer: ")

# Check that the answer is correct
if captcha.check_answer(answer):
    print("You're not a robot!")
else:
    print("You are a robot, sorry!")

Development Setup

This project uses Poetry to manage dependencies and packaging. Here are the installation instructions for Poetry.

Contributing

1. Fork it (https://github.com/jake-walker/pytextcaptcha/fork)
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/foobar)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am "Add some foobar")
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/foobar)
5. Create a new pull request