Too many captcha Errors!

[Moley123]

I ran the following commands:

• docker run derhenning/tgtf

• nano docker-compose.yml

I then added my email address to the username variable.

I ran this command:

docker compose up --force-recreate

It says it is "Starting login process..." but then I get a warning message that "Too many captcha Errors! Sleeping for 10 minutes..."

What have I done wrong?

[Moley123]

Update: Seems like I needed to set a 'Reserved IP' for my Digital Ocean droplet.

Scanner is now working as expected.

[Dermayer]

@Moley123: It ran on the Raspberry. Wanted to run it in the Docker variant on a NAS. Now it no longer works on the Raspberry either. I get the same error.

What am I doing wrong or am I not understanding something?

[Moley123]

@Dermayer as per this comment from @Der-Henning - "TGTG API is rate limited by requests per period from one ip. So you have to make sure that you have a dedicated ip. Users of AWS / Azure etc. share a pool of ips"

I was using the standard IP address assigned to my droplet. Once I switched to the Reserved IP address, and made sure the droplet was using the new IP address, it worked.

I ran the command mentioned here to update the IP address: https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/reserved-ips/how-to/outbound-traffic/

[Dermayer]

Thanks, that was the right hint. After a forced reboot of the router and a new IP, everything worked again.