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New Chegg protection

Open hookshot245 opened this issue 7 years ago • 4 comments

Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that this program works by "Browsing" the book in the chegg ereader online and using the print feature to get the pages in segments which are put together into a PDF, right? If so, until this issue is dealt with somehow I will try to do it manually. Basically, I ran the application and wasn't sure why it kept freezing over time. I then tried to read the book on my laptop to see if I could use the print button to do something like this and it asked me to solve one of those things to verify I wasn't a robot to keep reading. I somehow doubt this issue ends with me and would like to hear if this is still working for anyone else. I think Chegg upped their security.

Also, a linux version or unix compatible script one day would be nice if this can get running again. Might would try my hand at making it myself with the existing source code.

hookshot245 avatar Aug 02 '18 02:08 hookshot245

Sorry for the late response, but yes there seems to be a captcha showing up every once in awhile. My ideal workaround would be to pause the page flipping and display the captcha for the user to solve before it continues.

Unfortunately, I am currently not supporting this project so I cannot say when I will be able to fix this. Hopefully someone decides to fork this and implements a check for captcha.

lulzsun avatar Aug 27 '18 04:08 lulzsun

The temporary fix is to turn on debug mode in the settings, then start the download (on the main tab), then go to the browser tab and when it asks for it, complete the captcha. It would be great for a full fix on this. screenshot_1

ButterNuffer avatar Aug 27 '18 21:08 ButterNuffer

While it might not be possible to auto complete the captcha, I will later implement a system where it will pop up for the user to fill out to make it easier. I cannot say when I will get around to doing that but use this workaround for now.

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018, 2:09 PM ButterNuffer [email protected] wrote:

The temporary fix is to turn on debug mode in the settings, then start the download (on the main tab), then go to the browser tab and when it asks for it, complete the captcha. It would be great for a full fix on this [image: screenshot_1] https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/41597877/44686351-ec4b5900-aa1b-11e8-9601-d1b3e99871aa.png

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lulzsun avatar Aug 27 '18 21:08 lulzsun

The workaround listed above no longer is working. After completing the captcha, the redirect does not load the intended page.

techobrien avatar Sep 19 '18 22:09 techobrien