# oxylabs/how-to-handle-amazon-captcha

The process of handling CAPTCHA when extracting public data from Amazon with Oxylabs Amazon Scraper API.

Repository: https://github.com/oxylabs/how-to-handle-amazon-captcha
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/how-to-handle-amazon-captcha
Homepage: https://oxylabs.io/products/scraper-api/ecommerce/amazon
Language: Python
License Family: other
Topics: amazon, amazon-scraper, amazon-scraper-api, captcha, captcha-solver, captcha-solving, scraper-api
Last push: 2026-06-19T07:26:42+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 65/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 88, release rhythm 35, longevity 68
- inputs: {"age_days": 954, "days_push": 75, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1701, forks 3 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:24.342054+00:00)

## What it is
A tutorial repository with Python example code showing how to handle CAPTCHAs when scraping Amazon product data, comparing a plain requests-based scraper with Oxylabs' commercial Amazon Scraper API. It serves as a companion to Oxylabs' blog guide and promotes their paid scraping service.

## Use cases
- scrape amazon product pages without hitting captcha
- learn how to bypass amazon captcha when scraping
- example python code for amazon product data extraction
- compare manual scraping vs scraper api for amazon
- extract amazon product details as structured

## When to choose
- you want a quick tutorial on amazon captcha handling
- you are evaluating oxylabs amazon scraper api with the free trial
- you need copy-paste python examples for amazon scraping

## When to avoid
- you need a self-contained open-source captcha solver with no paid service
- you want a production scraping library rather than demo code
- you scrape targets other than amazon

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: active
- function: web-scraping, developer-tools
- domain: crawlers, e-commerce, tutorials
- platform: python, cross-platform
- tags: captcha, amazon-scraper, scraper-api, example-code, oxylabs

## Member repositories
- oxylabs/how-to-handle-amazon-captcha (main) score 65

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:24.342054+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:37:43.673245+00:00, confidence not recorded.
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- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.