N8n as an RPA

No I haven’t but one suggested to use python or powershell which I have no knowledge in those languages so I haven’t tested it. You can test it if you want

I got it working with python, and you can just use the premade library.

Here’s a video of me testing it: https://youtu.be/078cDd0w2wU

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Just wanted to add to this posting as I feel it has tracked the journey of using n8n as an RPA. Airtop has come out with an awesome product that is easy to setup and use with n8n that allows you to perform RPA actions in the browser. It doesn’t allow desktop automation or any RPA for things outside the browser or locally, but I found for most RPA usecases n8n+airtop is very powerful.

You can use UiPath as a RPA tool with AI features in combination with n8n. If you do not work in a regulated industry you could also use the community version first.

Then from your n8n workflow you can trigger an UiPath process from orchestrator with an http request (for sure) or just start a local file ( I don’t know if this is actually possible with n8n) .

Another way to trigger the UiPath workflow would be to send emails to a specific inbox and configure a trigger in UiPath for that inbox.

just reply for support on this. :slight_smile:

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Thanks for the suggestion, I guess I’ve been intimidated by UI Path.

One of my goals with this is to use n8n as the orchestration layer as I love the way the logic and nodes work.

For example, the airtop node allows you choose basic actions like click an element.

As far as I’ve seen the UI Path API can only trigger workflows so you would have to create a custom workflow for each action (ie. click and element, type, send screenshot)

Would love to see what you’ve built

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