# SOAP SUDS or some better way?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/soap-suds-or-some-better-way/72836>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** scripting\
**Created:** [April 24, 2023, 6:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/soap-suds-or-some-better-way/72836 "2023-04-24T18:42:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 24, 2023, 6:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/soap-suds-or-some-better-way/72836/1 "2023-04-24T18:42:05Z")

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Looking at docs online, SUDS appears to have been depreciated, but it's not clear that some better alternative is available.

So if starting new development to interact with a SOAP API, is SUDS NOT the right starting point?

What are the options, aside from re-inventing the wheel on parsing the XML with some DOM lib?

Edit: Just found [What is the alternative to SUDS?](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/what-is-the-alternative-to-suds/17593).