1. Install guide

2. Captcha Sniper usage guide

3. Troubleshooting guide

4. Settings uBot and iMacros

1. Install Guide

Installation:

Run the install.

You might be prompted to keep or overwrite winsock, you can just keep your current file.

Your Anti Virus might sound the alarms since Captcha Sniper uses winsock to listen on port 80.

VERY IMPORTANT!!! - Before you launch Captcha Sniper for the first time in order to

get your license request key, be sure to set the following for Vista, Windows Server 2008 and

Windows 7 users.

Simply right click CaptchaSniper, then click properties. Set the compatibility mode to xp (service

pack 2 or service pack 3, doesen’t matter) and set the privilege level to admin for ALL USERS as

shown in the 2 screens below:

Launch Captcha Sniper and follow the on-screen instructions to obtain your license request key

and follow the directions in the emailed reply.

2. Captcha Sniper usage guide

Running Capctha Sniper:

After obtaining your license key, launch Captcha Sniper

You must run Captcha Sniper as Admin in Windows XP compatibility mode for Vista and Win 7

users (shown above).

You might get a message saying that Port 80 is in use.

If this happens, this means you have something listening on Port 80. To properly emulate the

decaptcha HTTP post, Captcha Sniper must be able to use Port 80. This could be anything such as

an web server, skype, teamviewer, apache, IIS or something else.

You can still run skype with Captcha Sniper, but you must completely quit Skype and launch

Captcha Sniper first, before you restart Skype.

To check to see if Apache or another web server is using port 80, you can simply open your web

browser and go to http://127.0.0.1.

On windows 7 (not sure about the others), to find out what’s using port 80, you can start

command prompt and run : netstat -o -n -a | findstr 0.0:80

In the last column of the output, you should see a number which is the Process ID of the

application using port 80 as shown in the example below:

In this case we would have process id 43444. You can then start Task Manager (be sure to enable

viewing the process id in Task Manager. Just select view from the top menus>select columns

and tick the PID as in the example shown below.

Now go back to task manager and see what process is using port 80 and stop it. When you

don’t find the process which is using port 80 it means that it is a service which is using it

and simply switch from the processes tab to the services tab and identify it. Just follow the

example shown below:

Please note that Captcha Sniper adds entries to your HOSTS file

(windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts). First, it creates a back up of your hosts file in the

same directory as hosts.bak. This file performs the mapping of decaptcher.com to your local

machine. When Captcha Sniper closes properly, your original hosts file is restored so that

you can use decaptcher again wihtout problems. Also make sure that your hosts file is not

marked as read-only.

Now that Captcha Sniper is up and running properly, all you need to do is select the

platforms/footprints you are working with in the left panel. This is simply a mapping to

select captchas in the right panel. Whats selected in the right panel is ultimately what is

used. The captchas in the right panel must be checked (and not just selected) to be available

for solving. Once you have captchas selected in the right panel, you are set. Note that

selecting the parent Node (ex ‘Articles’) does nothing at this point, you need to select the

nodes underneath the parent node. See the example below:

Now that captchas have been selected, just run your other software and be sure to use

decaptcher.com. You can enter anything into the username and password fields for

decaptcher (for Scrapebox make sure you have ticked “Enable automatic captcha solving…”

from the “Captcha” dropdown menu.

You can also check your balance and it should always show $7.77 (this was tested and

verified with Scrapebox, Article Marketing Robot, Backlink Brigand and SEO Link Robot).

See the examples below:

As your other software finds captchas it will send them to Captcha Sniper. You will see them

appear in Captcha Sniper and should see the answer which Captcha Sniper has solved.

You can test the captchas in the right panel by double clicking them. You should see all of the

correct answers to the captchas provided with the program.

If not, you might have to delete the following 2 keys from your registry. Run regedit and

look for these 2 keys and delete them:

- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment\PATH

- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment\TESSDATAPREFIX

To run Captcha Sniper from the command line, simply navigate to the Captcha Sniper

directory and type: ‘captchasniper.exe <path to captcha file> <captcha type>’. The Captcha

Type is shown in the right panel next to each captcha. Example: ‘captchasniper.exe

c:\downloads\capctha.gif 14’. As soon as Captcha Sniper has solved the capctha, the answer

will be available in the file ‘answer.txt’ in the Captcha Sniper directory.

After version 1.5 - Captcha Sniper Service Emulator added:

After version 1.5 a new option has been added. Up until this version, Captcha Sniper was

compatible with tools which use http post.

The new option, which can be ticked at the settings part, opens up the Captcha Sniper

Service Emulator, which means it can be used with tools that use raw sockets, meaning it is

using api post so basically there won’t be any tool that Captcha Sniper can’t be compatible

with.

The Captcha Sniper Service Emulator will have 3 screens.

1. The Server info screen, which confirms everything is up and running as seen in the image above.

2. The HTTP Api Screen – Captcha Sniper has now extended http coverage, so it will

basically support tools which have several services implemented and not only decaptcher

as you can see in the image below.

3. The Socket Api screen – This part is ment for the tools and bots which use raw sockets.

So basically, in order for it to work, you would have to make sure that the port in the bot

you are using matches the port in CSSE. Please have a look at the image below:

3. Troubleshooting guide

Troubleshooting:

Case 1 – requested address is broadcast address, but flag is not set -10013

a. IIS service issue In some cases one of the services which is using port 80 can be the IIS service and you might get an error as the example shown below:

Next thing you would do is run : netstat -o -n -a | findstr 0.0:80 from command prompt and this might show up:

As you can see the process id in this case will be 4. Next thing you will need to do is run the task manager and identify the process:

This service can not be stopped by simply using the “End Process” command.

Simply start command prompt and run the command: net stop w3svc

For further reference on stopping the IIS service please follow the links below: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732317%28WS.10%29.aspx

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/95826e7a-

bac4-4e1f-bcb6-c52d49c9d7f4.mspx?mfr=true

b. World Wide Publishing Service or Web Deployment Agent Service

In some cases these both these services can cause the issue mentioned here at Case 1. In order to disable them, please follow the steps below:

1. Click Start then Run, type services.msc and hit OK.. 2. Scroll down and look if these services are active!

3. In case they are, double-click on them, on startup type click disabled and on service status click STOPPED.

Case 2 – Captcha Test is giving bad results

In this case the first thing you may need to do is to run regedit and look for the following keys:

- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment\PATH - HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment\TESSDATAPREFIX

In case these exist, you must delete both!

Run the test again and if it still gives bad results then it means you would have to install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package.

For (x86) - http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=5582

For (x64) - http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=2092

Case 3 – Invalid license

This happens most of the time because users don’t read the guide and run Captcha Sniper before setting it to run as admin for all users. It is very important to be set to run as admin before running it the first time

In this case you will have to delete the license file (but not before you saved it somewhere else) and make the proper settings to the CaptchaSniper.exe file. right click > properties > compatibility > change settings for all users > tick run in win xp (sp3)

and tick run as admin (follow the exact example mentioned at the beginning of this install

guide)

Now start CaptchaSniper.exe and follow the steps one more time for getting the activation code. When done copy the saved license file into your Captcha Sniper folder and that’s it ;)

Case 4 – Run-time error'5' – Invalid procedure call or argument-5

This can happen in two ways:

1. When you start Captcha Sniper:

In this case you would have to make sure you have installed the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package. If you didn’t please install the one that would suit your operating system from one of the links below:

For (x86) - http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=5582

For (x64) - http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=2092

In case you have installed it, it would mean you are using a different language for non Unicode Programs and please follow the steps listed at the link below in order to change that.

http://econ.la.psu.edu/~hbierens/NONUNICODE.HTM

In case you need the language for some other non unicode programs, you can start Captcha Sniper by

using SBApplocale. Simply download the command line from the link below:

http://www.steelbytes.com/?mid=45

Then you can run it via command prompt like the example shown below:

SBAppLocale.exe 1033 "C:\Program Files\Captcha Sniper\CaptchaSniper.exe"

2. When you run the test by clicking the captcha images on the right :

In this case it means it is a tesseract issue and you would have to delete the following 2 lines from your registry:

- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment\PATH - HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment\TESSDATAPREFIX

Case 5 – Run-time error '70' – Permission denied

When this happens, it means that some other application is using the host file. Normally you

would get this error when starting Captcha Sniper and you would get the same error when

you try to close it. This happens because Captcha sniper ads entries to the host file and it

reverts it once you exit. Not beeing able to do so, It will generat this error. The error message

should look like in the image below:

Normally, other applications that use the host file would be an antivirus or an antispyware

application. In order to find out quickly what application is using the host file, please visit the

website below and download Unlocker: http://www.emptyloop.com/unlocker/

This is a little tool which is easy to install and easy to use and you can identify very quickly

with it what is using the host file just by simply right clicking the host file and selecting

unlocker from the menu. (please see the guide presented at the Unlocker website for more

refference). After identifying the application, you can kill it and the problem will be solved.

4. Settings uBot and iMacros

a. Simple code example For Ubot users:

define $SolveCaptchas(#Image) {

save element image(<id="{#Image}">, "{$special folder("Application")}\\captcha.gif")

shell("C:\\captchasniper\\captchasniper.exe {$special folder("Application")}\\captcha.gif 28")

set(#Answer, $read file("C:\\captchasniper\\Answer.txt"), "Global")

return(#Answer)

}

b. iMacros Captcha solving with Captcha Sniper:

This assumes you have some basic understanding of how to write a macro in iMacros. You will need to have Captcha Sniper running of course and have the the correct captcha type selected. This speciic example was created in iMacros for firefox. You will need to click ‘Options’ then un-check Visual effects/Highligh object when found and click ‘Apply’. Also note that the local file paths used in this demo are also specific to FireFox.

<Beginning of your iMacro Script> 'insert this code whenever you can see the capcha image within your own macro code 'this will delete any existing captcha image otherwise imacros will have errors FILEDELETE NAME=c:\ captcha.jpg 'define where we want to download the captcha image ONDOWNLOAD FOLDER=c:\ FILE=captcha.jpg 'this downloads the captcha image - this line below will be specific to the form you are writing your macro for. TAG POS=1 TYPE=IMG FORM=ID:pgbSaveForm ATTR=HREF:"*asimg*" CONTENT=EVENT:SAVE_ELEMENT_SCREENSHOT 'this opens a new tab to submit the image to Captcha Sniper and loads the file that came with your download URL GOTO=file:///C:/captchasnipertest.html ‘this selects the captcha image we just saved so that we can send it to Captcha Sniper TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:FILE FORM=ACTION:http://poster.decaptcher.com/ ATTR=NAME:pict CONTENT=C:\captcha.jpg ‘this sends the captcha image to Captcha Sniper TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:SUBMIT FORM=ACTION:http://poster.decaptcher.com/ ATTR=VALUE:Send ‘this extracts the answer from Captcha Sniper and saves it into a variable !VAR1 SET !EXTRACT_TEST_POPUP NO TAG POS=1 TYPE=BODY ATTR=TXT:* EXTRACT=TXT SET !VAR1 EVAL("var s=\"{{!EXTRACT}}\"; l=s.lastIndexOf(\"|\");s=s.substr(l+1);") ‘close the tab TAB CLOSE ‘set the captcha image text box to the answer from Captcha Sniper. Again, parts of the line below will be specific to the form you are writing your macro for. TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEXT FORM=NAME:fpg_form ATTR=NAME:fpg_antispam CONTENT={{!VAR1}} <Remaining of your iMacro Script>

For support and further questions, please email us at:

support@captchasniper.com or andrei@captchasniper.com

For all license related issues, please contact us via email at: license@captchasniper.com

Our team will respond to your request within within 24 hours (usually much less time).