File Transfer Automation: 3 Videos Showing RPA in Action

File transfer automation is supposed to make moving files from point A to point B simple. Your automated file transfer tool shouldn’t make your life harder with barriers to getting up and running and complicated platforms.

Robotic process automation (RPA) solutions simplify the file and data transfer process from end-to-end—without the bulk of a full managed file transfer (MFT) platform. Using RPA for automated file transfer streamlines the entire process to not only automatically move files, but read and extract the data, create reports, and more.

Here are three videos to give you a glimpse of how RPA can simplify uploading and downloading files to and from a secure FTP (SFTP) site, as well as how to download files from a website.

Upload Files to an SFTP Site with RPA

In this clip, you can see files being dropped into a specific folder. You’ll see how they can be transferred and manipulated to add the date stamp in front of the file name and then uploaded to an SFTP site. RPA can do more than just move the files but also transform them as part of a file transfer workflow.

Pull Files from an SFTP Site with RPA

Here you’ll see how to automatically pull files from an SFTP site to a download folder. RPA bots automatically log into the SFTP site, cycle through the dataset, and pulls the data down to the download folders. Then once in the folder, the files can be automatically updated with today’s date.

Download Files from a Website with RPA

In addition to uploading and downloading files from SFTP sites, RPA also has web browser automation capabilities that can grab files from websites and portals. RPA bots can interact with the web browser the same way a human would—navigating to the site, entering a password, and downloading files.

Easy-to-Use File Transfer Automation from Automate

These three clips used RPA from Automate to streamline these pieces of the file transfer process. Automate’s intuitive design provides pre-built actions for commonly used FTP and SFTP operations—and more—so you can jump right in and start automating. With no-code features that make it easier for anyone to build powerful automation, there are no barriers to getting started. Automate features:

• Native Actions: Over 600+ actions to common applications that support a variety of protocols—including FTP, FTPS, and SFTP
• UI Automation: Mimic user interactions on web browsers and desktop applications to build automation from screen recordings
• API Integration Kit: Powerful out-of-the-box toolkit to easily connect to your most mission-critical business applications