Overleaf CAPTCHA

[snus-kin]

Tried to log in to overleaf.com using username and password and received this message in return:

{"errorReason":"cannot_verify_user_not_robot","message":{"text":"Sorry, we could not verify that you are not a robot. Please check that Google reCAPTCHA is not being blocked by an ad blocker or firewall."}}

Similarly, entering the session cookie results in status: 'Error: 'Task exception was never retrieved'.'

[sonv]

Tried to log in to overleaf.com using username and password and received this message in return:

{"errorReason":"cannot_verify_user_not_robot","message":{"text":"Sorry, we could not verify that you are not a robot. Please check that Google reCAPTCHA is not being blocked by an ad blocker or firewall."}}

Similarly, entering the session cookie results in status: 'Error: 'Task exception was never retrieved'.'

I have the same issue. I'd be very thankful if there's a way to fix this.

[da-h]

Hi,

sorry for letting you wait for so long!

Having the captcha requirement for login in overleaf is new to me.
One way to solve this should be to use the login using the cookie-solution described in the README.
However, I see this only as a short-term solution.

What I would need for this project and what is, as far as i know, not possible yet is:

• to open a browser window via python
• perform the conventional login with all its variations, and
• then pass the resulting session-cookie back to python
  This would have the huge advantage that the browser or webviewer used would have to take care of all security-related features and AirLatex would never come into contact with the login credentials.

I'll have another look at the current solutions, maybe I'll find a new way and get back to you as soon as I have more information.

Alternatively:

• i can also imagine to write a small, simple browser-plugin here
• i had also used browser_cookie3, which bypasses this by scanning the cookies of all installed browsers on the system, but in this case i got inconsistent login attempts for different SAML-login based overleaf instances

Best,
da-h

[Yemeen]

I believe opening the browser through mechanize, selenium, or webbrowser would be a good solution! Will look into it more when I get a chance

[hiraksarkar]

Still having the problem.