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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)

Extracting company details from Crunchbase.com

Now, let's use the UiPath recorder function to add the activities so that we can extract data from the Crunchbase website:

  1. On your Chrome browser, go ahead and open https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/uber and scroll down to the place where Website, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter information is visible:

  1. Now, let's extract the website address and save it as the variable we created. To do this, open the UiPath web recorder and click on Copy Text on the Recorder panel. Then, point to the text on the website that says www.uber.com. Once you've done that, click on Save and Exit on the Recorder panel:

The recorder will add a new Web Sequence with the recorded action. Cut and move this Sequence to the Try block below the Navigate to activity.

  1.  Within the activities we just moved, click on the Attach Browser activity, update the Browser property to browserCrunchBase, and remove the existing values in...