Harvesters Tab
Learn when to use Captcha Harvesters or Shape Harvesters in Stellar AIO 4.0.
Harvesters help Stellar prepare the verification information certain retailers require before your tasks can continue. Open Harvesters in the sidebar to find two separate tools: Captcha Harvesters and Shape Harvesters.
You only need the type required by your retailer guide. Creating a checkout task does not automatically mean you need both.
Captcha Harvesters
A captcha is a website verification challenge, such as an image puzzle or an “I’m not a robot” checkbox. Different retailers use different captcha services, including hCaptcha and Google reCAPTCHA.
A Captcha Harvester is the browser window Stellar uses to handle those challenges. If a task needs a captcha solution, it may have to wait until that challenge is solved before it can continue. Google Chrome must be installed to use Captcha Harvesters.
For Pokémon Center, hCaptcha AI Solver attempts to solve supported hCaptcha challenges automatically using the computer or server running Stellar. You do not need to sign into Google for this Pokémon Center setup.
The main controls
- Create Harvester(s): Name a harvester, choose whether to enable hCaptcha AI Solver, and choose how many to create.
- Open Harvester: Open an individual harvester’s browser window using the arrow icon on its card.
- Open All Harvesters / Close All Harvesters: Open or close all Captcha Harvester windows. Closing a window is different from deleting its configuration.
- hCaptcha AI Solver: Enable supported AI solving on that harvester. This is the AI autosolve option in 4.0; the old serverside AI option is no longer available.
- Ready and Test AI: Check that AI initialization has finished, then test before a drop. There is no fixed harvester count for everyone; choose a setup your computer can handle.
- Proxy: Configure the harvester connection when required. Pokémon Center uses the task’s proxy; reCAPTCHA uses the harvester’s proxy. See the setup guide below for the distinction.
- Duplicate: Create a copy of a harvester configuration.
- More actions (three dots): Find Edit, Youtube for Google sign-in, and Clear cookies. Clearing cookies removes stored browser session information and may require you to sign in again.
- Delete: Remove a harvester configuration. Use Close All Harvesters when you only want to close the windows.
Creating a harvester saves its configuration. Open it before running tasks that require captcha solving and keep it available while those tasks run.
Follow Set Up Captcha Harvesters for the complete walkthrough.
Shape Harvesters
Shape is website protection used by supported retailers, including Target, Bandai and SportChekCa. A Shape Harvester uses a browser to generate the temporary verification data that the selected retailer needs for protected requests.
Members often call this data cookies or headers. In this context, it is information sent with a request so the retailer can validate it. It is separate from your password and checkout profile. Without usable cookies, protected login or checkout requests may fail.
Open Harvesters → Shape Harvesters to create and manage them. Choose the Site that matches your retailer; cookies generated for one retailer do not replace another retailer’s cookies. The page shows each harvester’s status and cookie count, along with controls to start, stop and edit it. Use that retailer’s guide for its fields, browser choices and timing.
In 4.0, Target Shape Harvesters produce cookies that can be used for both login and ATC (add to cart). You do not need separate Login and ATC endpoint selections or the old Shape/ShapeV2 task modules.
Follow the Target Shape Harvester instructions for settings and when to run them.
Which one should I set up?
- Pokémon Center: Start with Captcha Harvesters and hCaptcha AI Solver, then follow the Pokémon Center guide.
- Target: Follow the Target guide for Shape Harvesters.
- Other retailers: Check that retailer’s guide. Captcha type, Google sign-in requirements and other preparation can differ.