Visual RPA on Make.com

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Hi everyone,

I’m looking for an affordable Robotic Process Automation (RPA) solution with computer vision capabilities for a client. The goal is to automate repetitive tasks and improve process efficiency.

Here are the specific requirements:

  • Integration with Make: The solution should be able to connect to Make and trigger automated workflows.
  • Computer vision: The solution should be able to process images and videos to automate visual perception tasks.
  • Affordable cost: The solution should be affordable for a small business.
  • Possibility of launching it on a remote server (as with UIpath)

I’ve explored several options, including UiPath, but their pricing is prohibitive for a small practice like my client’s.

I’d like to know what other Make users are using for RPA. Do you have any recommendations?

Thank you in advance for your help and feedback.

Best regards

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Isn’t make.com already what you need?
You can run automations through API, you can use visual AI modules to process images and docs (ChatGPT, for example) and it is already hosted on cloud.

What are the limits of make.com for your use case?

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Hello @Giacomo_Lanzi, thanks, but no.
Like i said, i already use Make.

But i need a solution which allows me to automate tasks, as UiPAth does, and which I can launch via Make

For example :
Open a web page, click on the first button, enter a text in the search bar, and click on 4 buttons. Then close the page.

Thanks a lot if anybody have some advice

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You can use ScrapeNinja for that. It allows you to interact with the web page (fill forms/clicks/etc.) and return result(s).

Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues.

— @samliew

P.S.: Did you know, the concepts of about 70% of questions asked on this forum are already covered in the Make Academy. Investing some effort into it will save you lots of time and frustration using Make later!

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You can use Zenrows or ScrapeNinja.
Personally, I had the best results with Zenrows, even through website that allegedly blocks bot.
Zenrows can be actioned from Make, since it fully support API.

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Hi Shadow,

I’m not sure if you’re still looking for a solution but I’ve been developing a solution for this exact use case over the past 6 months. It basically allows you to use the Make UI to design an RPA workflow (ie. click, locate, type, etc.) on your local computer. If you still need it you can join the waitlist here:

RPAgent – Convaiy

or the alpha here:

RPAgent

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That’s exactly what I’m looking for. I use a Web service and while it has some APIs, not everything is behind an API yet. So I want to use RPA to automate some tedious tasks. And I want to use make.com. Your waitlist talks about n8n though - does it also already work on make.com ?

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As well as ScrapeNinja, I’d take a good look at Airtop.

It’s an agentic approach to web interactions - you can tell it (for example) “Click the orange button near the top right of the window”.

You don’t need to know anything about DOM or HTTP. The natural language interface also makes it fairly resilient to website changes too.

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Hi @Silvia_Pfeiffer,
Yes, ScrapeNinja is working with Make.com too. There is a specific app with 3-4 modules. I actually prefer to use plain http module to send requests to ScrapeNinja, but with their app you should achieve the same result.
I have to warn you, though, the use of those kind of scraper is not super reliable and sometimes they could give inconsistent results or even no results at all.

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Actually, I was looking at RPAgent - I’m not after a scraper, but an RPA tool. It does look like Airtop is best suited to my needs - I will test it out.
Thanks for your help everybody!

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Hi @Silvia_Pfeiffer , RPAgent’s Alpha version only works with n8n at the moment but the final tool will work with any workflow platform that can perform HTTP requests, like make.com.