How to Scrape Overture Bid Prices? Need Help

[ilove_amazon_unbox]

Hi - I want to scrape overture bid prices from the overture bid tool using PHP. It has a capcha and I don't know how to defeat it. I know php and curl. I have been trying to figure it out for an entire day. I need some help. Can someone post code?

[vdd]

Try to use GD2 library and build original algo to recognize a captcha. But it'll be difficult.

[ilove_amazon_unbox]

I have been trying to use CURL and PHP.

Is there a way to semi automate it? Ask for a human to enter the capcha once? How do I get it so that the PHP remembers the fact that I entered the correct capcha once?

[vdd]

One query -- one captcha. It's easy to semi automate the process. But one captcha per query.

[wormser]

How would you semi automate? That's what I've been tring to do, I just want to have the regular overture bid tool, but on my site so I can can put the results in my database.

[ccoonen]

i thought the overture tool sets sessions on captcha completion. Capture the cookie it "tried" to send to you, and store it in a cookie collection. Then pass that back to the overture bidding tool when it requests it. Then you only have to do it once.