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Create a scan by adding URLs

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

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

Switch to visual scanner

Sign in to Percy. You can view the Percy dashboard. On the dashboard, the following options are available:

  • Visual testing
  • Visual scanner

Choose Visual scanner and click the New Scan to launch the create a new scan window.

Select visual scanning

Click Add manually. In Enter page URL(s), enter the URL(s). A maximum of 1000 URLs are allowed.

Click Add pages. You can see a list of pages corresponding to the URL. Click Next. Sitemap page list

  1. Enter Name for the scan.
  2. Enable Schedule recurrent scans and provide the information for the recurrence. Learn more
  3. Click Create Scan.

Create scan option

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.

View Results

To review the results of the build, go to the Visual scanner dashboard and choose the project you created from the Scans page.

Review generated build

The page lists all the visual scans and details such as number of changes, number of pages and the scan schedule. At this point, you can examine the visual changes by clicking the individual builds. You can approve the build or request changes.

Percy automatically approves your first build and only uses approved builds as new baselines.

Review scanned pages

Even if your scans are scheduled, you can still initiate an instant scan by using the Run now option. Navigate to the scan you created and click Run now.

Integrate Slack and/or Microsoft Teams to receive notifications about the visual differences on the specified URLs.

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