Metal Archives access being blocked by captcha

[sveakul]

Version 1.12, Foobar v2.24.3

Just noticed today that Metal Archives lyrics stopped working; went to website and acess is being blocked by an "Are you human?" captcha:

Any chance of getting around this?

[jacquesh]

Not really no, if they decide to serve us a captcha there's nothing we can do. Our only hope is to try avoid being served the captcha in the first place but I don't know if there's anything we can really do to help that other than just trying to keep the number of requests made to metal-archives to a minimum (in the hopes that we never trigger the captcha in the first place. Does it work again after you do the captcha? 30s of investigation suggests that they might be relying on a cookie to avoid the captcha so I would assume not?

[regorxxx]

Alternatively, the API could be used.
https://metal-api.dev/index.html

I would suggest to contact the devs first to be sure the expected requests rate is allowed

[regorxxx]

API example
https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,122571.msg1060215.html#msg1060215