This chapter showed how to solve CAPTCHAs, first by using OCR, and then with an external API. For simple CAPTCHAs, or for when you need to solve a large amount of CAPTCHAs, investing time in an OCR solution can be worthwhile. Otherwise, using a CAPTCHA solving API can prove to be a cost effective alternative.

In the next chapter, we will introduce Scrapy, which is a popular high-level framework used to build scraping applications.