contrib/signet/getcoins.py no longer useable #29679

1. 
   weirdwhala commented at 1:04 am on March 20, 2024: none

   Is there an existing issue for this?

   • I have searched the existing issues

   Current behaviour

   got Unexpected error when contacting faucet: 403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: https://signetfaucet.com/captcha seems because the captcha itself add some anti-bot framework

   Expected behaviour

   successfully run

   Steps to reproduce

   just run ./getcoins.py –cmd ../../src/bitcoin-cli

   Relevant log output

   No response

   How did you obtain Bitcoin Core

   Compiled from source

   What version of Bitcoin Core are you using?

   latest

   Operating system and version

   macos

   Machine specifications

   No response

2. 
   willcl-ark commented at 2:14 pm on March 20, 2024: member

   Thanks for the report.

   I think thic could be a result of cloudflare implementing anti-bot JS checks. I am able to retrieve the captcha using curl -v https://signetfaucet.com/captcha, also using HTTP1.1 (which I think requests is limited to?), but unable using python.

   Perhaps @kallewoof can shed some light on whether using Cloudflare is new to this site and if it therefore is what’s caused the breakage?

   It seems that even other options would provide only intermittent results at best (until Cloudflare changes blocking heuristics)…

3. willcl-ark added the label Scripts and tools on Mar 20, 2024
4. 
   kallewoof commented at 3:08 pm on March 23, 2024: member

   I believe this is due to the “under attack” mode I enabled when the faucet was pummeled back a while ago. I dropped to “high security” level. Does this fix the issue?
5. 
   willcl-ark commented at 9:27 am on April 4, 2024: member

   Thanks @kallewoof, I can confirm that the script is now working again as expected:

   

   Hopefully “attack mode” is not needed again :)

   Closing for now.

6. willcl-ark closed this on Apr 4, 2024

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7. 
   sutt0n commented at 9:11 pm on July 13, 2024: none

   @willcl-ark @kallewoof It seems that this issue is still occurring, or at least there’s another issue related to this one with the Signet faucet – is the faucet drained, or non-functioning at the moment? I’ve failed to get any transactions to go through whenever it says “A pay-out has been queued”

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