I use the GetSearchResults web service and it suddenly stopped working because it asked me to respond to Captcha, which makes no sense because it is an API, so it should not require a human response.
This code works in Google App Engine. On the local host, it works fine, but it doesn’t work.
The following shows what my code is trying to extract. Incoming HTML contains Captcha. I have to get the XML back. What's happening?
zillow: http://www.zillow.com/webservice/GetSearchResults.htm?zws-id=[API KEY REMOVED]&address=10797+Alameda+Ave&citystatezip=92316&rentzestimate=1 zillow results: <html><head><title>Zillow: Real Estate, Apartments, Mortgage & Home Values in the US</title><meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8, IE=9"/><meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW"/><link href="//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400&subset=latin" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/><link href="http://www.zillowstatic.com/vstatic/5b67875/static/css/z-pages/captcha.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="screen"/><script language="javascript"> function onReCaptchaLoad() { window.reCaptchaLoaded = true; } window.setTimeout(function () { if (!window.reCaptchaLoaded) { document.getElementById('norecaptcha').value = true; document.getElementById('captcha-form').submit(); } }, 5000); </script></head><body><main class="zsg-layout-content"><div class="error-content-block"><div class="error-text-content"><h5>Please verify you're a human to continue.</h5><div id="content" class="captcha-container"><form method="POST" action="" id="captcha-form"><script type="text/javascript"> var RecaptchaOptions = {"theme":"white","lang":"en-US"}; </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js" async defer onload="onReCaptchaLoad()"></script> <div class="g-recaptcha" data-sitekey="6Lf2nvMSAAAAAMQ5p6WlAfDEixMdOQgJsij-3_ud"></div><br/><input id="dest" name="dest" type="hidden" value="ognl:originalDestination"/><input id="norecaptcha" name="norecaptcha" type="hidden" value="false"/><button type="submit" class="zsg-button zsg-button_primary">Submit</button></form><img src="http://www.zillowstatic.com/static/logos/logo-65x14.png" width="65" alt="Zillow" height="14"></img></div></div></div></main></body></html>
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