RPA is a financial services buzzword right now. I’ve worked on an RPA library that manipulates a web application…which the company already provided full API ac

RPA is a financial services buzzword right now. I’ve worked on an RPA library that manipulates a web application…which the company already provided full API access to. The RPA library requires those working with it to examine the page HTML in order to hook into it, since it’s highly dynamic: you have to see what form fields are available and their internal IDs in order to interact with them. Meanwhile, the API layer gives access to all the same CRUD, and maybe with better documentation (I have not seen it). If you don’t have a human user, just use the APIs! That’s what they are there for!