: Robotic Process Automation with Python

robotic-process-automation/introduction

There are lots and lots of different commercial RPA tools out there. There are a lot of pretty shiney tools out there that do a lot of work for you under the hood. But we’ll be using open-source coding tools to do RPA. There area a few reasons for this.

The main reason is that pure code-based RPA systems are a LOT more powerful then RPA systems that force a user to use a user interface

  • if a process is specified i code, it is more reusable and debuggable
  • you can make use of tools like Git to allow safe collaboration on your processes
  • if you can code it, you can include it in your apa processes. This means you can use whatever 3rd party services you can get your hands on
  • you can test your stuff
  • your knowledge is transferrable. This is a big one!

The hard part of automation is not learning a specific tool or user interface, the hard part is:

  1. Understanding what’s happening under the hood
  2. Knowing what to automate
  3. How to stop the robots from taking your job. Just kidding. Sortof.

https://www.cio.com/article/227908/what-is-rpa-robotic-process-automation-explained.html

https://learn.aisingapore.org/courses/learn-rpa-with-tagui-beginners-course/

TagUI is an open source and free to use RPA tool that is great for web automations. TagUI is maintained by AI Singapore, a Singapore government-funded initiative to build local Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities.

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