How do we get data out of systems?

Owned by Eliot Muir
Last updated: Sept 22, 2021 by Tyler Brown
1 min read

This is a fundamental problem every integration engineer needs to ask. There are many answers to this question:

  • If the system has web APIs then this might be a convenient way to extract the data you need.

  • If the system uses a database , can you query data from this and export it?

  • Does the system have some type of automated capability to generate output files - one can read these files and extract the data from here.

  • Do we have to resort to screen scraping? This is where we simulate a human user programmatically sending keyboard actions to the user interface of the program and extract the data in this way.

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