From fdd44dd373f6e42ca0889c44c605706af322fb06 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: lolcat <will@lolcat.ca>
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:37:05 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] detect qwant captcha

---
 scraper/qwant.php | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scraper/qwant.php b/scraper/qwant.php
index ecbd4ec..c242de7 100644
--- a/scraper/qwant.php
+++ b/scraper/qwant.php
@@ -905,6 +905,17 @@ class qwant{
 			
 			throw new Exception("Qwant returned an API error");
 		}
+		
+		if(
+			isset($json["url"]) &&
+			preg_match(
+				'/captcha/i',
+				$json["url"]
+			)
+		){
+			
+			throw new Exception("Qwant returned a captcha redirect");
+		}
 	}
 	
 	private function limitstrlen($text){