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draconar / grab_packt

Grab a book a day for free, from https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning
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This doesn't seem to be working #25

Open m8tt opened 7 years ago

m8tt commented 7 years ago

It was working until today and i've started getting this error...


----------- Packt Grab Started -----------
Request Error
----------- Packt Grab Done --------------
skos-ninja commented 7 years ago

Pakt have recently added a captcha to their claim form that now blocks automatic claiming of the ebook

m8tt commented 7 years ago

Can you fix it please

Cuchulain commented 7 years ago

Probably no :confused:

jrial commented 7 years ago

@m8tt : captchas are designed to disallow certain actions unless the user can prove they're human and not an automated script. If this was trivial to circumvent in software, it wouldn't be a very good captcha.

After years of service, it would appear this app has unfortunately become obsolete. I'd like to thank @draconar for providing this software, and for the many free eBooks I've been able to download without manual intervention throughout the years.

Cuchulain commented 7 years ago

Thank You @draconar, good job :thumbsup:

technoplayer commented 7 years ago

All good things come to an end, thank you @draconar for painlessly allowing me to automate this for so long.

budiwijaya commented 7 years ago

Oh too bad now can't automate this things. Thank you @draconar for this script.

BetaUliansyah commented 7 years ago

I have run this script for almost a year, and I found out that most free daily ebooks recently are iterating previous promotions. Thanks for the script @draconar.

budiwijaya commented 7 years ago

Have someone notice on your packt account? My browser that already logged in for a few days, didn't require captcha.

But I still haven't tried again with the script.

jrial commented 7 years ago

@budiwijaya I still haven't bothered disabling the script, and I still get the error mails from cron. So no, it doesn't work yet.