How to Connect Screenshot.fyi to Excel (4 Methods Compared)

The Problem With Getting Workbook Data In and Out of Screenshot.fyi

You have an Excel workbook full of URLs — competitor landing pages, client websites, pages you're about to redesign. You need a current screenshot of each one. And not just the screenshots: you need the resulting image URLs written back into the workbook, next to the source URL, so you can reference them, embed them, share them.

Screenshot.fyi is built for exactly this — premium full-page captures, single API call per URL, consistent output. But getting its output into a spreadsheet is the part nobody has figured out cleanly. The default approach is to run each URL through the tool by hand, copy the link it returns, switch back to the workbook, paste it into the right cell, and move to the next row. Forty URLs. Forty round trips.

Below are the four common ways teams handle this. Only the last one is worth building your workflow around.

Method 1: Manual Copy-Paste

The default. Open Screenshot.fyi, paste a URL, wait for the capture, copy the resulting image link, go back to your workbook, paste it into the adjacent column, move to the next row, and repeat.

For Excel users, the "export first" temptation is real — export the URL column as a CSV, run some script or manual process against it, and then re-import. But you still have to handle the re-import, match the rows back, and deal with any column offsets the export introduced. It trades one kind of tedium for a slightly more elaborate one.

For thirty URLs — a routine number for a visual audit — you are spending an hour on mechanical repetition. Each capture has to be watched. You can't queue them. By URL twenty you're copying the wrong link because you got ahead of the load time.

Method 2: Power Automate

Power Automate has an HTTP action you can use to call the Screenshot.fyi API, and it can read from and write to Excel. The pieces exist.

Before going further — do you know what an HTTP action is? An API key? How to parse a JSON response and map a field from it into a spreadsheet column? If those words feel like a different language, this is not your path. Jump to Method 3 or 4.

For those still here: you'd build a flow that reads a row from Excel, passes the URL to Screenshot.fyi via HTTP, takes the image URL from the JSON response, and writes it back to the same row. The flow works. The issue is throughput.

Power Automate processes one row at a time.

Forty URLs means forty flow runs. And because each one is a separate execution, debugging a failure at row thirty-one means digging through run history to find which one broke and why. If the Screenshot.fyi API returns an error for a specific URL, the flow may stop entirely — or silently skip — depending on how you've configured error handling.

You probably just need the image URLs in the adjacent column. You probably didn't anticipate spending an afternoon configuring HTTP actions and JSON parsers. So this ends up in the queue of whoever on your team knows Power Automate, and you're waiting. Assuming that person exists and isn't already buried in something else.

And once you need conditional logic — screenshot only URLs where column C says "pending review," or skip rows that already have a value in column B — you're adding conditions to the flow manually. It compounds.

Method 3: The Previous Generation — Connector Add-Ons

Until recently, the best option for repeatable workbook ↔ Screenshot.fyi workflows was a category of add-ons that let you configure which column held your URLs, which column should receive the results, and saved that as a named template you could re-run.

That was a genuine step forward. Run the add-on, it processes the column, it writes back. You didn't have to touch Screenshot.fyi's UI for each URL.

But you were still designing the template. If your workbook structure shifted — a new column inserted, a worksheet renamed — your config broke. Filtering to a subset of rows was something you did manually before running. The add-on moved the data; the thinking about which data to move stayed with you.

This is the previous generation. It worked within the shape you built it for. Outside that shape, it asked a lot of you.

The Easy Way: Using SheetXAI in Excel

There is a different approach. SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads the workbook, understands what you are looking at, and through its built-in Screenshot.fyi integration it can fire the captures and write the results back — for however many rows match your criteria. No column-mapping template, no automation builder, no babysitting each URL.

Example 1: Bulk screenshot a full column and write the results back

Take a full-page screenshot of each URL in column A using Screenshot.fyi and write the returned image URL into column B

SheetXAI reads every populated row in column A, calls Screenshot.fyi once per URL, and writes the image link directly into column B on the matching row. No flow to build. No HTTP action to configure. Just the column, filled in.

Example 2: Conditional capture — only screenshot pages without an existing link

Screenshot.fyi capture each URL in column A where column B is empty, and write the resulting image URL into column B

The pattern: you don't have to pre-filter the workbook yourself. SheetXAI reads both columns, evaluates the condition inline, and only fires captures for rows that actually need one.

Try It

Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Excel workbook with a column of URLs you've been meaning to screenshot, then ask SheetXAI to capture them and write the results back. The Screenshot.fyi integration is included in every SheetXAI plan.