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Stop Wasting API Calls: Detect What's Blocking Your Agent Before You Solve
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Stop Wasting API Calls: Detect What's Blocking Your Agent Before You Solve

via Dev.to PythonArson3h ago

Most AI agents handle web blocks the same way: hit a wall, throw a CAPTCHA solver at it, hope for the best. The problem? Half the time it's not a CAPTCHA. I've been building GateSolve , a CAPTCHA solving API for AI agents. And the most common failure pattern I see is agents submitting solve requests for pages that aren't actually blocked by a CAPTCHA. They're blocked by: JS challenges (Cloudflare interstitials that auto-resolve in 5-10 seconds) Auth walls (login pages that need credentials, not CAPTCHA tokens) Silent blocks (403 responses with no CAPTCHA at all) Rate limits (429 responses that just need a backoff) Solving a CAPTCHA on an auth-walled page does nothing. You burn credits and get nowhere. The Fix: Classify Before You Solve I built a free endpoint that classifies any URL's access block: curl "https://gatesolve.dev/api/detect?url=https://example.com" Response: { "url" : "https://example.com" , "classification" : "public-ok" , "httpStatus" : 200 , "solvable" : false , "confid

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