Comment by tempest_
> they've already paid for.
That is the crux, rarely is it a service being scraped that they paid for
> they've already paid for.
That is the crux, rarely is it a service being scraped that they paid for
Many times it is scraping aggregators of data that those aggregators also did not pay for.
Depends on the use case. Lots of hospitals and banks use RPA to automate routine processes on their EHRs and systems of record, because these kinds of software typically don't have APIs available. Or if they do, they're very limited.
Playwright and other browser automation scripts are a much more powerful version of RPA but they do require some knowledge of code. But there are more and more developers every year and code just gets more powerful every year. So I think it's a good bet to make that browser automation in code will replace RPA altogether some day.