Augmented shareable video files for robotic process automation

1. A method of robotic process automation, the method comprising, by a computer system:

receiving a command to record user interface (UI) activity in a computing environment;

responsive to the command:

receiving video frames of a live screen output of the computing environment;

detecting UI events in the computing environment in relation to the video frames of the live screen output; and

determining target applications for the UI events, wherein the target applications are executing in the computing environment;

generating UI metadata comprising information identifying the UI events and the target applications in relation to the video frames; and

sequentially encoding, in a video file, the video frames together with information sufficient to derive the UI metadata.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the generating comprises generating structured UI metadata in a markup language.

3. The method of claim 1 , comprising publishing the video file to a user.

4. The method of claim 3 , comprising overlaying supplemental content on the encoded video frames of the video file prior to the publishing.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the sequentially encoding comprises encrypting, in the video file, the information sufficient to derive the UI metadata.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the information sufficient to derive the UI metadata comprises a representation of the UI metadata.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein:

the encoded video frames of the video file depicts a user-executed process in the computing environment; and

the encoded information sufficient to derive the UI metadata comprises an instruction set for a bot.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the UI events correspond to input from an input device selected form the group consisting of keyboard, mouse, and touchscreen.

9. The method of claim 1 , comprising:

receiving the video file;

decoding, from the video file, the information sufficient to derive the UI metadata;

generating the UI metadata from the decoded information; and

creating a bot using the UI metadata.

10. The method of claim 9 comprising, prior to the creating, determining a complexity of an instruction set for the bot.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the creating the bot is performed automatically without user configuration in response to the determined complexity satisfying criteria for automatic bot creation.

12. The method of claim 10 , comprising facilitating user configuration of the instruction set in response to the determined complexity not satisfying criteria for automatic bot creation.

13. The method of claim 9 comprising, responsive to the automatically creating, automatically deploying the bot on a robotic process automation platform.

14. The method of claim 11 , wherein the deployed bot executes a user-executed process depicted in the video file as a robotic process.

15. A computer system comprising a processor and memory, wherein the processor and the memory in combination are operable to implement a method comprising:

receiving a command to record user interface (UI) activity in a computing environment;

responsive to the command:

receiving video frames of a live screen output of the computing environment;

detecting UI events in the computing environment in relation to the video frames of the live screen output; and

determining target applications for the UI events, wherein the target applications are executing in the computing environment;

generating UI metadata comprising information identifying the UI events and the target applications in relation to the video frames; and

sequentially encoding, in a video file, the video frames together with information sufficient to derive the UI metadata.

16. The computer system of claim 15 , wherein the generating comprises generating structured UI metadata in a markup language.

17. The computer system of claim 15 , wherein the sequentially encoding comprises encrypting, in the video file, the information sufficient to derive the UI metadata.

18. The computer system of claim 15 , the method comprising:

receiving the video file;

decoding, from the video file, the information sufficient to derive the UI metadata;

generating the UI metadata from the decoded information; and

creating a bot using the UI metadata.

19. The computer system of claim 15 , the method comprising:

prior to the creating, determining a complexity of an instruction set for the bot; and

wherein the creating the bot is performed automatically without user configuration in response to the determined complexity satisfying criteria for automatic bot creation.

20. A computer-program product comprising a non-transitory computer-usable medium having computer-readable program code embodied therein, the computer-readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method comprising:

receiving a command to record user interface (UI) activity in a computing environment;

responsive to the command:

receiving video frames of a live screen output of the computing environment;

detecting UI events in the computing environment in relation to the video frames of the live screen output; and

determining target applications for the UI events, wherein the target applications are executing in the computing environment;

generating UI metadata comprising information identifying the UI events and the target applications in relation to the video frames; and

sequentially encoding, in a video file, the video frames together with information sufficient to derive the UI metadata.