Selenium Chrome gets detected

Question

I'm trying to make a bot for https://www.phonehouse.nl/verlengchecker . But when I use Chrome it gets detected. When I use Firefox it only opens the page and doesn't do anything. I tried it on Arch linux and Windows result is the same.

from selenium import webdriver
from time import sleep

capabilities = {
  'browserName': 'chrome',
  'chromeOptions':  {
    'useAutomationExtension': False,
    'forceDevToolsScreenshot': True,
    'args': ['--start-maximized', '--disable-infobars']
  }
}    
driver = webdriver.Chrome(capabilities=capabilities)
def control(provider, number, day, month, year, post, email, street):
    
    driver.get("https://www.phonehouse.nl/verlengchecker")
    sleep(1)

    driver.find_element_by_xpath("//span[@id='businessSelectBoxIt']").send_keys(provider) #provider
    driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@name='msisdn']").send_keys(number) #number

Answer 1

Your analysis was in the right direction. Selenium driven ChromeDriver initiated google-chrome Browsing Context can easily get detected by the recaptcha .

Deep Dive

If you access the DOM Tree you will find the existance of the recaptcha .

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Conclusion

Recaptcha can easily detect WebDriver initiated Browsing Context .

You can find a detailed discussion in How does recaptcha 3 know I'm using selenium/chromedriver?

However there are some generic ways to avoid detection and you can find a detailed discussion in How to bypass Google captcha with Selenium and Python?

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Outro

You can find a relevant detailed discussion in:

• Can a website detect when you are using selenium with chromedriver?

Answer 2

Well, the "provider" space isn't an input so you can't use send_keys ,

But you can use this for the number:

from selenium import webdriver
from time import sleep

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
def control(number):
    driver.get("https://www.phonehouse.nl/verlengchecker")
    sleep(1)
    driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="msisdn"]').send_keys(number)
control("000")