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Robotic Process Automation Projects

By : Nandan Mullakara, Arun Kumar Asokan
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Robotic Process Automation Projects

By: Nandan Mullakara, Arun Kumar Asokan

Overview of this book

Robotic Process automation helps businesses to automate monotonous tasks that can be performed by machines. This project-based guide will help you progress through easy to more advanced RPA projects. You’ll learn the principles of RPA and how to architect solutions to meet the demands of business automation, along with exploring the most popular RPA tools - UiPath and Automation Anywhere. In the first part, you’ll learn how to use UiPath by building a simple helpdesk ticket system. You’ll then automate CRM systems by integrating Excel data with UiPath. After this, the book will guide you through building an AI-based social media moderator using Google Cloud Vision API. In the second part, you’ll learn about Automation Anywhere's latest Cloud RPA platform (A2019) by creating projects such as an automated ERP administration system, an AI bot for order and invoice processing, and an automated emergency notification system for employees. Later, you’ll get hands-on with advanced RPA tasks such as invoking APIs, before covering complex concepts such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning in automation to take your understanding of RPA to the next level. By the end of the book, you’ll have a solid foundation in RPA with experience in building real-world projects.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Looping and creating company URLs

Now, we will construct company URLs so that we can look up the data for each company on the Crunchbase.com website:

  1. Open Chrome and navigate to the lookup site:
    1. Use the Open Browser activity and configure the URL so that it's https://www.crunchbase.com/.
    2. Ensure that Input | BrowserType is Chrome.
    3. Create an output UiBrowser variable for this activity called browserCrunchBase.

Your Open Browser activity will look like this:

  1. As always, we will use a Try-Catch block to handle any exceptions. In the Try block, we will loop through the customer list and get the details of the company from this site.
  1. Let's add the For Each Row activity in order to loop through the company names (customer names from CRM). Let's add the CompanyList argument we created previously as our input:

  1. Next, we'll add variables for each piece of data we'd like to read from the Crunchbase website. As you may recall, this...