When do we go for request to web API?

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Hi All

I want to understand at what scenarios we go for sending http request to any web API. Like we can also use ui automation for that web application.

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API usage is always first choice. Its stable and ease to use. We only have things like UI automation because so many software dont offer an API.

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  1. So if i want to fetch some data from any random website then how can i get the required end point and other input parameters for the HttpClient activity ?
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Could you please reply on the above ?

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Usually you can not. That’s why we have things like scraping.

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That’s what my first question is.

Where and in which scenarios we should go for HttpRequest ?