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Create a scan by adding URLs

Learn how to create a visual or accessibility scan by adding URLs manually.

Follow these steps to create a visual or accessibility scan by adding URLs manually:

Access the scanner

Open the Website Scanner and click Create a new scan to get started.

Create a new scan

You can also access the Website Scanner from both Percy and Accessibility Testing.

Ensure that you have selected scanners as per your requirement.

Click the Manual mode tab.

  • In Enter page URL field, enter the URL (see annotation 1).
  • You can also upload the URLs from a CSV file (see annotation 2).

Add URLs in manual mode for visual scanner

Click Add page.
You can see a list of pages corresponding to the URL. You can add more URLs one after another in Enter page URL.

You can add a maximum of 1000 URLs.

For visual scans, if you wish to examine changes in staging against production, you can use the Compare with alternate environment feature. For more information, see Compare Visual Changes against Alternate Environment.

  • By default, the system assigns a generic title, click the Scan Name and enter a unique, descriptive identifier (see annotation 3).
  • Click the settings icon (see annotation 4) to schedule the scan and modify configurations.

Scan name & scan settings edit option

  • Enable Enable recurring scans, and enter the recurrence details.
    For more information, see how to schedule scan.

To scan a page that requires a user authentication, add Test pages behind login in Scan Settings.

Advance scan settings combined general option

  • Click the schedule text link to modify the execution frequency (see annotation 5).

Create scan option

  • Click Create Scan.

To scan a page that requires a user authentication, add Login configuration in More settings.

Scans will begin running right away if Schedule recurrent scans is not enabled.

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