The Scenario
Your team deploys to staging Friday at 5 PM. The QA checklist has 40 URLs — every page in the new release. Someone needs to screenshot each one before and after the deploy to confirm no layout regressions made it through.
That someone opened a message from the engineering lead at 4:45 PM asking whether the pre-deploy screenshots are done.
The bad version:
- Open URL 1, use the browser's screenshot tool or a Chrome extension, save the file, name it something coherent, move it to the right folder
- Repeat for URL 2, but the extension errored on the last one so you are not sure if that screenshot actually saved
- By URL 15 you realize naming conventions have already drifted — some files are named by page, some by timestamp, some by both, and the folder is a mess
The screenshots exist to create a record. Right now you are creating a bigger problem.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads your URL list in column A, and through its built-in ZenRows integration it can fire a screenshot capture for each URL and record the screenshot URL and capture timestamp into columns B and C.
Screenshot every URL in column A using ZenRows and record the resulting screenshot data and timestamp into columns B and C in this Excel workbook
What You Get
- Column B: the screenshot URL or base64-encoded image data returned by ZenRows
- Column C: the ISO timestamp of when the screenshot was captured
- Rows where the screenshot fails get an error note so you know which pages to retry
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Some pages require a delay before screenshotting — JavaScript animations need to finish loading
For each URL in column A, use ZenRows to take a screenshot with a 3-second render wait — write the screenshot result into column B and the timestamp into column C
You want to screenshot only pages where column D is flagged as "changed"
For each row in column A where column D says "changed," use ZenRows to take a screenshot and write the result into column B with a timestamp in column C — skip rows where column D is empty
You want to compare the pre-deploy screenshot timestamp against the post-deploy one from column E
For each URL in column A, take a ZenRows screenshot and write the result into column B and the timestamp into column C — then calculate the time elapsed since the pre-deploy timestamp in column E and write the difference in minutes into column F
Full QA run — screenshot, record, and flag pages where the capture failed
For each URL in column A, take a screenshot using ZenRows, write the screenshot URL into column B and the timestamp into column C — for any row where the screenshot fails, write "capture failed" into column D and sort those rows to the top for manual review
One prompt handles the capture, the logging, and the failure triage.
Try It
Open an Excel workbook with your staging URL list in column A and get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI. Ask it to screenshot every page and record the results. For capturing full HTML of JS-rendered pages instead of images, see the JavaScript rendering spoke.