Automate Your Business

Aaargh. I hate development sometimes.

I’ve painstakingly worked through the Gmail account creation process, making it fully automated. I cracked the final piece of the puzzle last night, only to end up at a page where Google send an activation code to your mobile. And there’s no way on earth I can automate that piece, not even if you have hundreds of different mobile numbers which the software can provide to Google.

Sigh.

Now that I’ve hit that problem, I remember reading about it elsewhere, so I should have spotted that earlier. Stupid me. I suspect it’s only a problem where the same PC is hitting the registration forms repeatedly, possibly tracked by cookies or IP address. So the code will still be useable if you have a good range of proxies, I think. I’ll need to do some investigation into that.

However, now that I’ve done the hard part – damned hard – it should be relatively easy to modify what I’ve done to work with Yahoo, Hotmail, etc. I started on it last night, and reckon it’ll take me a few hours to adopt, thanks to the plugin-based approach I’m using.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Pay attention to what I said there: “FULLY automated”

Here’s a quote from the SENuke team:

“Yes, any captcha SEnuke ever encounters (apart from the gmail account creation captcha) is sent to our team for solving. The gmail account creation is not outsourced because it would take too long since gmail requires entering the captcha multiple times.”

(Source: http://www.senuke.com/blog/?p=47)

I’ve got ALL Gmail captchas solved hands-free (via a CHEAP third-party service with a bunch of people solving these things all day), even when there are two captchas on a page at the same time.

I’ll try to get a video of it up at some point soon.

I love it when my years of software development pay off

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