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- Overview
- UI Automation
- Applications and technologies automated with UI Automation
- Project compatibility
- UI-ANA-016 - Pull Open Browser URL
- UI-ANA-017 - ContinueOnError True
- UI-ANA-018 - List OCR/Image Activities
- UI-DBP-006 - Container Usage
- UI-DBP-013 - Excel Automation Misuse
- UI-DBP-030 - Forbidden Variables Usage In Selectors
- UI-DBP-031 - Activity verification
- UI-PRR-001 - Simulate Click
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- UI-PRR-003 - Open Application Misuse
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UI Automation Activities
Last updated Sep 29, 2025
This tutorial illustrates how to use UI Automation APIs to create an automation that opens the Google search engine, performs a UiPath search, retrieves the result from the official UiPath website, and displays it in the console.
- UiPath Studio 2023.10 or higher
- UiPath.UIAutomation.Activities 23.10.3 or higher
- Visit Using objects in coded automations and learn the methods you can employ for using object repository elements within your coded automation.
- Create a coded workflow by selecting New, and then Coded Workflow from the File group.
- Capture all the UI elements that you want to use in your coded workflow inside
the Object Repository.
For this example you need to capture the following UI elements:
GoogleHomeScreen
- the Google home screen, where you perform the search.googleSearchBar
- the Google search bar where you type the UiPath keyword.
googleResultsScreen
- the screen that shows the first Google results after performing the search.firstPageOfResults
- the part of the screen that includes only the first results.uipathOfficialWebsite
- the result that takes you to the UiPath official website.
- Create a variable for the Google home screen and open it using the Open API.
public class Search : CodedWorkflow { [Workflow] public void Execute() { // 1. Open Google var homeScreen = uiAutomation.Open(ObjectRepository.Descriptors.Google.GoogleHomeScreen);
public class Search : CodedWorkflow { [Workflow] public void Execute() { // 1. Open Google var homeScreen = uiAutomation.Open(ObjectRepository.Descriptors.Google.GoogleHomeScreen); - Type UiPath in the Google search bar, using the TypeInto API.
// 2. Type "UiPath" in the Google search bar homeScreen.TypeInto(ObjectRepository.Descriptors.Google.GoogleHomeScreen.googleSearchBar, "UiPath");
// 2. Type "UiPath" in the Google search bar homeScreen.TypeInto(ObjectRepository.Descriptors.Google.GoogleHomeScreen.googleSearchBar, "UiPath"); - Send the Enter keyboard shortcut to search for the corresponding result,
using the KeyboardShortcut API.
// 3. Send the "Enter" keyboard shortcut to search for the corresponding Google results homeScreen.KeyboardShortcut(ObjectRepository.Descriptors.Google.GoogleHomeScreen.googleSearchBar, "[d(hk)][k(enter)][u(hk)]");
// 3. Send the "Enter" keyboard shortcut to search for the corresponding Google results homeScreen.KeyboardShortcut(ObjectRepository.Descriptors.Google.GoogleHomeScreen.googleSearchBar, "[d(hk)][k(enter)][u(hk)]"); - Focus on the screen with the
Google results, using the Attach API.
Note: You use the Attach API over the Open API when you need to target a specific screen within an application that has already been opened using the Open API. The Attach API prevents unnecessary application launches, ensuring your automation stays on track.
var googleScreen = uiAutomation.Attach(ObjectRepository.Descriptors.Google.googleResultsScreen);
var googleScreen = uiAutomation.Attach(ObjectRepository.Descriptors.Google.googleResultsScreen); - Get the text from the first Google results and print it out in the console,
using the GetText API.
string firstresultsText = googleScreen.GetText(ObjectRepository.Descriptors.Google.googleResultsScreen.firstPageOfResults); Console.WriteLine(firstresultsText);
string firstresultsText = googleScreen.GetText(ObjectRepository.Descriptors.Google.googleResultsScreen.firstPageOfResults); Console.WriteLine(firstresultsText); - Create an If clause that prints out the the text of the first result that
contains the
"https://www.uipath.com"
string within it.// Initialize with an empty string string officialWebsiteUiPath = ""; if (firstresultsText.Contains("https://www.uipath.com")) { officialWebsiteUiPath = googleScreen.GetText(ObjectRepository.Descriptors.Google.googleResultsScreen.uipathOfficialWebsite); } Console.WriteLine(officialWebsiteUiPath);
// Initialize with an empty string string officialWebsiteUiPath = ""; if (firstresultsText.Contains("https://www.uipath.com")) { officialWebsiteUiPath = googleScreen.GetText(ObjectRepository.Descriptors.Google.googleResultsScreen.uipathOfficialWebsite); } Console.WriteLine(officialWebsiteUiPath);
The automation opens the Google search engine in your preferred web browser, performs
a search for UiPath, retrieves the results from the initial page, and
extracts the text from the result that contains the following link:
https://uipath.com
.
To follow the steps of this tutorial and try it out yourself, you can download the following sample project: Goggle Results using UI Automation APIs.