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2Captcha and CapSolver stopped documenting hCaptcha in early 2025. How token-based solving fits a scraper or test suite, with Python and Node examples.
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Two of the best-known captcha APIs stopped documenting hCaptcha around the start of 2025, so code written against them has nowhere to send an hCaptcha job. This post covers how token-based solving fits into a scraper or an end-to-end test, what to do when the site is your own, and how to call NoneCap, an hCaptcha-only API, from Python and Node.