RPA Python not working in MacOS Monterey - PHP removed, install PHP this way

[684efs3]

I just upgraded to MacOS Monterey and my previous RPA Python code no longer works. I am using RPA to open a website and now I get this:

I am using a Jupyter notebook.

import rpa as r

r.init(visual_automation = True)
r.url('https://www.yahoo.com')
r.close()

[RPA][ERROR] - following happens when starting TagUI...


[RPA][ERROR] - use init() before using url()
[RPA][ERROR] - use init() before using close()
False

[kensoh]

Hi @684efs3, thanks for reporting this!

I'm seeing reports of this issue, due to the new macOS version removing PHP -
https://www.techgenyz.com/2021/06/18/macos-12-monterey-update-built-in-php/

Solution for now is to install PHP manually, unless this can be automated (I don't think so, need password to run homebrew) or co-packaged. Below will install Homebrew package manager, then install PHP which is required to run the rpa package.

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
brew install php

Try the above to see if that works. I'm using Mac as well but am still keeping it at Catalina version so I can't replicate.

[684efs3]

Fixed - thank you very much!

[kensoh]

Adding a note that upstream TagUI has a fix for newer PHP (eg v8.1.1) which has some problem with the code used to process datatables and object repositories. However, this is not needed here because for the Python package, those blocks of code are never executed (no concept of datatables or object repositories here).