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How to use Python to generate a Captcha | Source Codes Breakdown

✨New video up✨ In this video, we will use Python language to generate a Captcha. 🤓 Now let's breakdown the codes 😎

What is Captcha?

A CAPTCHA is a type of challenge–response test used in computing to determine whether or not the user is human.

How do we use codes to generate a Captcha?

Watch below 5 minutes video for codes breakdown:


See below for source codes:

#Import the following module
from captcha.image import ImageCaptcha

#Create an image
image = ImageCaptcha(width=500, height=200)

#The text you want to use for captcha
captcha_text = "happycodingwithpython"

#Generate the captcha image of the given text
data = image.generate(captcha_text)

#Output the image with given name
image.write(captcha_text, "CAPTCHA.png")
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