Hi! If I have an online platform with car’s official prices, which normally are updated regularly by manufacturers, can I update the prices from my platform using and AI Agent by going to official website of the car brands and copy the official price (without discounts) and update the prices from my platform?
You can, but you don’t need an AI Agent to do that in my opinion.
I assume your platform stays consistent in how data is entered, so thats classic RPA work.
For the manufacturers website, that can be harder to do with RPA if there are a high number and they change reguarly, which would break the selectors, but if they are very stable you can again do classic RPA, otherwise Screenplay sounds like the correct approach.
AI Agents in UiPath currently don’t see any websites etc, so if you need an AI Agent, you first need to get the data you feed it from somewhere, so I don’t think and AI Agent is what you should be chasing.
(This might change in the coming year, so anyone reading this later, bear in mind things are evolving fast).
There is also cost to consider.
Hi Jon! Thank you for your reply. What do you mean by “AI Agents in UiPath currently don’t see any website”? You mean I cannot configure the AI Agent if I give the exact path, to go to a website and copy an information (like a selling price) to paste it to my platform, this is not possible?
AI Agents is a nebulous term, so its easy to mix up functionality between them.
But the Agents in UiPath are not the same as the Claude Code thing that can take over your desktop and do stuff.
They are designed to do a narrow task. You can give them tools to use to extend their scope, such as an API connection to fetch or push data, which lets them interact with external systems, but thats basically just an endpoint they can reach. The same is true for websites. They don’t have a browser they can open. You can give them, a tool to read a website, but that tool has to them be built by you, using traditional RPA, at which point the AI agent becomes redundant.
So, the other option is Screenplay, which is using AI to do a task, on your screen, such as on a website.
Hi @Florin_Crutan,
You can achieve this, but an AI Agent is not really required here. A standard RPA approach should be sufficient if your platform structure is consistent.
You can scrape the official prices from manufacturer websites using selectors or APIs (if available) and update your platform. However, if the websites change frequently, selectors may break—so in that case, using more resilient approaches like Computer Vision or structured APIs would be better.
Also, keep in mind legal and data usage considerations when pulling data from official sites.
Overall, start with RPA; only consider AI if the data extraction becomes unstructured or complex.