User event and API interaction recording for robotic process automation

A computer-implemented method for creating a software automation process, comprising:

• initiating capture of user actions with one or more application programs operating on at least one user computing device;
• initiating capture of Application Programming Interface (API) actions with one or more network-accessible resources operating on at least one remote computing device;
• determining whether a user action with the one or more application programs has been detected;
• recording user information descriptive of the detected user action when the determining determines that the user action with the one or more application programs has been detected;
• determining whether an API call action with the one or more network-accessible resources has been detected;
• recording API call information descriptive of the detected API call action when the determining determines that the API call action with the one or more network-accessible resources has been detected;
• determining whether to stop the capture of the user actions and the API actions;
• ending the capture of user actions with the one or more application programs operating on the at least one user computing device after the determining determines that the capture of the user actions should stop;
• ending the capture of API actions with the one or more network-accessible resources operating on the at least one remote computing device after the determining determines that the capture of the API actions should stop;
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• creating the software automation process in accordance with the user information that has been recorded and the API call information that has been recorded, wherein creating the software automation process includes converting at least one fixed data value captured in the API call information into a variable of the software automation process, the created software automation process being configured to provide programmatic initiation of user actions to mimic the user actions that have been captured and to provide programmatic initiation of API actions to mimic the API call actions that have been captured, wherein the programmatic initiation of API actions includes the software automation process determining, during execution of the software automation process, a run-time data value and assigning the run-time data value to the variable.

A non-transitory computer readable medium including at least computer program code tangible stored therein for creating a software automation process, the computer readable medium comprising:

• computer program code for initiating a recorder configured to capture a sequence of interactions with one or more application programs operating on at least one user computing device and/or with one or more network-accessible resources operating on at least one remote computing device;
• computer program code for recording, via the recorder, (i) user interactions with the one or more application programs operating on the at least one user computing device, and (ii) Application Programming Interface (API) interactions with the one or more network-accessible resources operating on at least one remote computing device;
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• computer program code for creating the software automation process in accordance with the recording, wherein creating the software automation process includes converting at least one fixed data value captured in the recording of the API interactions into a variable of the software automation process, the created software automation process including at least programmatic initiation of the user interactions and programmatic initiation of the API interactions, wherein the programmatic initiation of the API interactions includes the software automation process determining, during execution of the software automation process, a run-time data value and assigning the run-time data value to the variable.

A non-transitory computer readable medium including at least computer program code tangible stored therein for facilitating creation of a software automation process, the computer readable medium comprising:

• computer program code for initiating capture of user actions with one or more application programs operating on at least one user computing device;
• computer program code for initiating capture of Application Programming Interface (API) actions with one or more network-accessible resources operating on at least one remote computing device;
• computer program code for determining whether a user action with the one or more application programs has been detected;
• computer program code for recording user information descriptive of the detected user action when the determining determines that the user action with the one or more application programs has been detected;
• computer program code for determining whether an API call action with the one or more network-accessible resources has been detected;
• computer program code for recording API call information descriptive of the detected API call action when the determining determines that the API call action with the one or more network-accessible resources has been detected;
• computer program code for determining whether to stop the capture of the user actions and the API actions;
• computer program code for ending the capture of user actions with the one or more application programs operating on the at least one user computing device after the determining determines that the capture of the user actions should stop;
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• computer program code for ending the capture of API actions with the one or more network-accessible resources operating on the at least one remote computing device after the determining determines that the capture of the API actions should stop;
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• computer program code for creating the software automation process in accordance with the user information that has been recorded and the API call information that has been recorded, wherein creating the software automation process includes converting at least one fixed data value captured in the API call information into a variable of the software automation process, the created software automation process being configured to provide programmatic initiation of user actions to mimic the user actions that have been captured and to provide programmatic initiation of API actions to mimic the API call actions that have been captured, wherein the programmatic initiation of API actions includes the software automation process determining, during execution of the software automation process, a run-time data value and assigning the run-time data value to the variable.