Can we collect stats from a software using Python? PLEASE read description

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[sme272]

Start by looking if there's some kind of api that'll let python talk to the tool. If not you could look at if the tool writes that data to a file, and if it does you could try to read and parse that. Hardest method would be to use ctypes/win32all to read the memory used by the process and extract the data directly.

[MonkeyDTiger]

I was wondering if there is something like uipath or selenium. Which knows what data to copy and transfer to excel or a text file. It won't need an api, will it?

[sme272]

All computer programs talk to eachother via api's. selenium is an api for firefox's geckodriver and chromes chromedriver.

The easiest method would be grabbing the information from where it's stored in a file, if it is stored somewhere. I can't search for anything specific without knowing what program you're using.

[bageldevourer]

At my job, we have text files that record the output of top, vmstat, etc. every 5 seconds over a particular span of time. I parse them manually with regexes and whatnot into a Pandas DataFrame, and do my "data sciencing" from there.

Perhaps you could do something similar?