Tag UI – A useful Open Source RPA

TagUI is an open-source and suitable to all platform command-line RPA tool that provides you the capabilities to automate your desktop web, mouse, and keyboard actions (an action simulated with a real keyboard) easily.

The TagUI automation software uses “human language” like command line syntax to create your workflows. So, you can automate with “language” like this:

With the help of this tool you can also do Visual automation for Websites and Desktop/Desktop Applications using integration with Sikuli. Under the hood, it converts your written commands/language or recording into JavaScript code to simulate the desired steps.

Here are some key features:

• Human readable code – can be written in 20 different languages
• Screen-based or visible automation possible using computer vision
• Basic and Pro UI Steps – there is a cheat sheet for steps
• Can integrate with AI/ML using API calls in Python
• For specific tasks, Javascript, XPath, HTML is required
• Live mode is quite helpful for development and debugging. You see outputs as you type the command(s)
• Simple installation: Just unpack and run
• Automate Chrome in visible/hidden mode
• Chrome extension available for recording actions on web application
• Suitable for Python & R integration for big data / AI / ML

Advantages

This tool has some advantages over other RPA tools:

• It is a cross-platform tool works on Windows, macOS, Linux
• Under Apache 2.0 open-source license $0 is used
• It has capabilities to run scripts in Headless mode i.e runs in the background – you can continue using the computer uninterrupted.

Some major functions/keywords:

• • click
    • click [DOM/XPath/Point/Image]
  • dclick
    • dclick [DOM/XPath/Point/Image]
  • rclick
    • rclick [DOM/XPath/Point/Image]
  • hover
    • hover [DOM/XPath/Point/Image]
  • type
    • type [DOM/XPath/Point/Image] as [text to type]
  • keyboard
    • keyboard [keys]
  • mouse
    • mouse up
    • mouse down
  • visit
    • [url]
  • select: Selects a dropdown option in a web input.
    • select [DOM/XPath of select input element] as [option value]
  • table
    • table table [XPath] to [filename.csv]
  • Popup: Next step is modified to be run in a new tab
    • popup [unique part of new tab’s URL]
      {
      [steps]
      }
  • Frame: For modification for next step to use the DOM or XPath in a frame or subframe.
    • frame [frame name]
      {
      [steps]
      }frame [frame name] | [subframe name]
      {
      [steps]
      }
  • Download: Downloads a file at a URL and saves it. Saves to the flow’s folder by default, but you can also provide a full path to save to.
    • download [file url] to [filename]
  • upload
    • upload [DOM/XPath of upload input element] as [filename]
  • Api: Call a web API and save the response to the variableapi_result.
    • api https://some-api-url
  • Snap: Saves a screenshot of the whole page, an element or a region. Can useDOM,XPath,Region,Imageidentifiers.
    • snap [DOM/XPath/Region/Image/page] to [filename]

RPA For Python
RPA for Python is a package which allows you to use TagUI through a Python API.

Use Cases
It can be used to automate repetitive time-consuming tasks, whether it involves websites, command line or desktop applications.

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