Captcha solving for
n8n agents
An agent that meets a challenge has nothing in its toolset that can answer it, so it stalls or hallucinates its way around. Give it a solver as a tool and the block becomes one more call.
{
"name": "CaptchaNo solve",
"type": "n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest",
"parameters": {
"method": "POST",
"url": "https://api.captchano.com/v1/solve",
"sendBody": true,
"specifyBody": "json",
"jsonBody": "={{ { type: $json.type, sitekey: $json.sitekey, url: $json.url } }}"
}
}Why agents need this specifically
A scraper that hits a challenge fails loudly and you fix it. An agent fails quietly: it reasons about the blocked page, invents a plausible next step, and reports progress it never made. The failure is worse because it is silent. A typed solver tool turns an ambiguous dead end into a deterministic result the agent can branch on.
What the tool returns
- A token or cookie — depending on the challenge type. Session-graded systems return a cookie plus the header set used to earn it.
- The user agent used, so the agent can replay it on submission.
- The cost of the solve, so an agent operating under a budget can account for it rather than spending blind.
Keeping the loop bounded
Give the agent a solve budget per run. Every response reports its cost, so a supervisor can cut the loop when spend passes a threshold rather than discovering it on the invoice. At $2.85 per 1,000 a typical agent run costs a fraction of a cent, but an unbounded retry loop is still an unbounded retry loop.
Speed matters more in an agent loop
A multi-step agent may hit several challenges in one run, and each one sits on the critical path. Our median is 4.8 seconds on reCAPTCHA v2, measured on our own infrastructure — see the solver pages for per-type figures.
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