From 89b8be514727b37bda3c7b2acb527335b9bdbfbf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: lolcat <will@lolcat.ca>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 06:55:01 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] detect brave captcha

---
 scraper/brave.php | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scraper/brave.php b/scraper/brave.php
index 5573133..2efaefb 100644
--- a/scraper/brave.php
+++ b/scraper/brave.php
@@ -383,6 +383,8 @@ class brave{
 		// load html
 		$this->fuckhtml->load($html);
 		
+		$this->detect_captcha($html);
+		
 		/*
 			Get next page "token"
 		*/
@@ -1175,6 +1177,8 @@ class brave{
 		// load html
 		$this->fuckhtml->load($html);
 		
+		$this->detect_captcha($html);
+		
 		// get npt
 		$out["npt"] =
 			$this->generatenextpagetoken(
@@ -1270,6 +1274,9 @@ class brave{
 		fclose($handle);*/
 		
 		$this->fuckhtml->load($html);
+		
+		$this->detect_captcha($html);
+		
 		$json = $this->get_js();
 		
 		foreach(
@@ -1374,6 +1381,8 @@ class brave{
 		
 		$this->fuckhtml->load($html);
 		
+		$this->detect_captcha($html);
+		
 		$out = [
 			"status" => "ok",
 			"npt" => null,
@@ -1853,4 +1862,29 @@ class brave{
 				)
 			);
 	}
+	
+	private function detect_captcha(){
+		
+		$title =
+			$this->fuckhtml
+			->getElementsByTagName(
+				"title"
+			);
+		
+		if(count($title) === 0){
+			
+			throw new Exception("Brave returned a malformed page");
+		}
+		
+		$title =
+			strtolower(
+				$this->fuckhtml
+				->getTextContent($title[0])
+			);
+		
+		if($title == "human verification"){
+			
+			throw new Exception("Brave returned a Captcha");
+		}
+	}
 }