RPA tools and more ...

Once at work, I was given an R&D task to create a bot that would "walk" the site, select products, fill out forms and pay for purchases. At that time, we were writing a part of the Antifraud system that allowed detecting bots in the browser. And from that moment it all began ...

Table of contents

1. RPA at a glance

   
   
   
   
   

2. Open source projects

   
   
   
   
   

3. Paid services

   
   
   
   
   

4. Test Automation

   
   
   
   
   

5. RPA vs Test Automation

   
   
   
   
   

6. Website scraping and RPA

   
   
   
   
   

7. BPM and RPA

   
   
   
   
   

8. Safe RPA ...

   
   
   
   
   

9. An example of a bot working in Python

   
   
   
   
   

10. How to detect a bot?

    
    
    
    
    

11. conclusions

    
    
    
    
    

RPA at a glance

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from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=ChromeDriverManager().install())
driver.get("https://www.google.com/")
elem = driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div[1]/div[3]/form/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div/div[2]/input")
elem.send_keys("Python news")
elem.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)
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from Browser.utils.data_types import KeyAction

lib = Playwright()
lib.open_browser("https://www.google.com/")
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3. Blue Prism 4,4 / 5 158

   
   
   
   
   

UiPath RPA?

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1. Long Running Workflows

   
   
   
   
   

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RPA

Let's look from the perspective of a pentester. We can use RPA to create a script that will cyclically check pages for vulnerabilities. Thinking further, we can train an entire army of robots to simulate attacks on various APIs and sites. It is clear that not everything can be automated, but you can try the basic scenarios that are repeated for each site.

To be continued...

In the next article, we will create our own bot, consider what algorithms for detecting bots are, which are written in Selenium and using RPA. Let's create our own algorithm and summarize.