scrapeData script is not working since iRacing added a recaptcha on login page about iracing-week-planner HOT 4 CLOSED

Weirdly I'm not seeing a captcha, although it's concerning if they plan on rolling it out to everyone. Given they've added a scraping endpoint in the latest build I had assumed that they wanted to facilitate this sort of thing.

I'm going to leave this issue open so people can see the work around if they get the issue, but for now my CI/CD tooling still seems to work so I'll leave the code as is.

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Weirdly in fact, i've just retested on master branch and it's ok for now. Giving some tests i've made we only need irsso_membersv2 as a cookie if a workaround is needed one day.

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That's good news.

I think if I was them I would implement a captcha after a number of failed login attempts from a browser or IP address. You may have just been temporarily caught in one of those.

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You are right @tmoitie. I think i have triggered the recaptcha because of multiple failed attempts due to a missleading space char at the end of one of my env var dedicated to the script. That's good news for sure!

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