Audio alert when site ask captcha

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Hello, I often refresh a website, but after a while, the site considers me a bot and displays a captcha to solve. As a result, my monitors stop working, and it goes into empty selection mode. I’ve set up an error notifier to be alerted when this happens, but it’s not ideal for my usage.

I would like to be alerted when the captcha appears. Previously, I used a method based on word removal. For example, I would take a keyword from a page, and as soon as that word was removed, it would alert me. This technique works, but the problem is that the site often has a 404, 505, or other errors, so the alert triggers for no reason.

I wanted to set up an alert for the page so that as soon as the word “captcha” or “robot” appears, it would notify me. However, when I put Distill on the captcha page, it shows up empty, so it doesn’t recognize the keywords I set for the alert. I tried disabling/enabling JavaScript, removing the page’s style, but nothing works—in the Distill viewer, it remains empty.

Does anyone have a solution for this kind of problem?

Thanks.

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the key solution here is to select an element from the captcha page to the list of selected elements. that way it won’t error out with SELECTION_EMPTY error and instead find the monitored content. once the content from the page is monitored, you can get regular change alerts. this is a good alternative to the built-in error alerts.