{"id":3051,"date":"2026-05-31T14:29:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T14:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deathbycaptcha.com\/blog\/?p=3051"},"modified":"2026-05-31T20:33:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T20:33:29","slug":"automating-captcha-submission-with-playwright-and-death-by-captcha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deathbycaptcha.com\/blog\/usage-best-practices\/automating-captcha-submission-with-playwright-and-death-by-captcha","title":{"rendered":"Automating Captchas with Playwright & Death By Captcha"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Browser automation becomes significantly more powerful when combined with intelligent captcha solving. If your workflow involves solving a captcha and submitting it to a website, manually solving it quickly becomes inefficient. A more scalable approach is to combine our captcha solving API with Playwright<\/strong>. This article walks through how to implement that workflow using Node.js<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The workflow in a nutshell<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The first step is submitting the captcha to Death By Captcha<\/a> API, check if the token is ready by polling the API every 5 seconds until a token is returned, then the token is inserted into the hidden textarea<\/code> element with ID g-recaptcha-response<\/code> and finally the form needs to be submitted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a high level view of the whole pipeline:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ReCAPTCHA \u2192 Submit captcha to API \u2192 Poll API for solution token \u2192 Browser Automation \u2192 Submission<\/span><\/span><\/code><\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Why Use Playwright for This Workflow?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
There are several browser automation frameworks available, but Playwright is especially well suited for modern API-driven automation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
a) Built-in async\/await support<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
The workflow reads clearly from top to bottom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
await page.goto(...)await page.fill(...)await page.click(...)<\/span><\/span><\/code><\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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b) Cleaner browser interaction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Playwright provides direct methods for common form interactions such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n