How to calculate indefinite integral programmatically

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I remember solving a lot of indefinite integration problems. There are certain standard methods of solving them, but nevertheless there are problems which take a combination of approaches to arrive at a solution. But how can we achieve the solution programatically.

For instance look at the online integrator app of Mathematica. So how do we approach to write such a program which accepts a function as an argument and returns the indefinite integral of the function.

wolfram mathematica online integrator

PS. The input function can be assumed to be continuous(i.e. is not for instance sin(x)/x).

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