Tag Archives: data scraping
AA: Stop Recording and Start Capturing!
Those new to RPA, will be new to Web Automation. Some of you might have worked with Selenium, and if so then Web Automation with Automation Anywhere won’t be difficult to pick up on. Web Automation isn’t easy, but it isn’t difficult either. It resides in the Goldilocks zone for the most part, but that…
Extracting Tables That Aren’t Tables: A Smarter Approach
If you’ve been following my previous posts, you would have realized that although the process delivers results, it delivers them after a considerable amount of time. Not only is the execution time lengthy, there is a level of complexity which is unavoidable, since we have to study the HTML structure first, then test out various…
AA: Extracting Tables That Aren’t Tables(Part-II)
In our last post, we were able to successfully extract data from each column. Today we will outline the logic for looping through each line item in the web table, extracting its contents, and storing it in proper format. Simply put, we will extract the table as it is, even though the HTML structure isn’t…
AA: Extracting Tables That Aren’t Tables(Part-I)
In the vast uncharted waters of the Internet, there exists a special breed of web tables which possess all characteristics of a table, except that it stem from different ancestral HTML roots. Automation Anywhere recognizes them, but records them under a CLIENT control, and it pisses the living daylights out of me whenever that happens….
AA: Scraping Data Off The Bot Store (Part-III)
Congratulations, you have made it to the last installation of our data scraping series! In this installation, we will add in a couple of enhancements that will convert our data scraper into a user friendly automation. Attended Automation is What It’s Called Although most businesses prefer to have their automations unattended, there are times however,…
AA: Scraping Data Off The Bot Store (Part-II)
In last week’s post, we developed the navigation…well most of it. Where Did We Go Wrong This Time? Nowhere. We are on the right track and only have to include one more condition into the Loop: While Action, to ensure it works as expected. I didn’t include this in the previous post as it breached the…
AA: Scraping Data Off The Bot Store (Part-I)
Automation Anywhere at its core consists of a series of scripts bundled up into click and drag Actions, which is bundled up even further into Packages and finally bundled up into an end to end SaaS called Automation 360. And that’s not all. With a little bit of Java, you too can create your own…