Auto Schedules

Create an Auto Schedule

The form has four sections and needs three things from you: the pages, a Web Profile and a cadence. This page covers every input, what it accepts, and the rules it enforces.

Opening the form

Go to Auto Schedules and press New Auto Schedule. The form opens as a panel over the list, so you keep your place. Save creates the schedules, Discard closes the panel, and Save & add another saves and gives you an empty form for the next batch.

At the top, In plain words reads the schedule back to you in one sentence — how many pages, which profile, how often and when it starts — and a line at the bottom says how many schedules will be created.

You need a Web Profile first

Until the workspace has at least one Web Profile, the button answers “Create a Web Profile first — it defines how your captures run.” A profile you create from the form comes back to it already chosen. See Web Profiles.

Pages

A new schedule first asks what to capture: Pages, a list of URLs where each one becomes its own schedule, or Sitemap, one schedule that captures every page of a sitemap on every run. Sitemap is included in Pro, Business and Business Plus and has its own page: Sitemap schedules. The kind cannot be changed after the schedule is created.

Field	Type	Default	Description
`URLs`Required	One per line	—	Each line must be a full address starting with `http://` or `https://`. Every line becomes its own schedule with the settings below, up to 10 at a time. When you edit an existing schedule this is a single URL field.
`Description`	Text	—	Optional. Shown in the schedule list and searchable from it. Worth filling in once you have more than a handful of schedules.
`Tags`	Multi-select	—	Any number of tags, used to group and filter the list. Create them under Configure → Tags.

Adding many URLs at once

There are two ways to create a batch of schedules in one pass.

Paste a list. One URL per line in the URL box. The count under the box says how many you have, and any line that is not a valid URL is named back to you rather than silently skipped.
A whole site. Choose Sitemap instead of Pages: one sitemap schedule captures every page a sitemap lists. To get a sitemap's addresses as a list, use Extract URLs on the Auto Schedules page, which downloads them as a CSV.

How they're captured

Pick the Web profile these captures should render with. As soon as you choose one, a preview card shows what it will actually do — device, resolution, location, cloud storage and blocking — so you can catch the wrong profile before you save rather than after the first capture.

Create a new profile under the field opens the Web Profile form. From a new schedule, saving the profile brings you back with it chosen.

Retention lives on the profile

How long these captures are kept, where they are delivered and who is emailed are decided by the selected Web Profile, not by the schedule. Editing a profile changes every schedule that uses it.

When it runs

Field	Type	Default	Description
`Cadence`Required	Choice	Choose a preset	Choose a preset shows the preset cadences as buttons under How often. Set my own interval shows four boxes under Repeat every. Covered in Capture frequency.
`Start`	Choice	Immediately	Immediately runs the first capture as soon as the schedule is saved. At a specific time lets you set it.
`First capture at`	Date and time	—	Only when Start is At a specific time. This is also the anchor the interval counts from.
`Stop after`	Date and time	—	Optional. Once it passes, the schedule stops on its own and its status becomes Stopped. Leave it empty to keep capturing until you pause the schedule.
`Schedule Time Zone`	Time zone	Use my global time zone	The zone the start, stop and capture times are read in. Leave it on your global time zone unless this page should follow another region's clock — then 09:00 means nine in the morning there.

Daylight saving gaps are rejected

If the start or stop time you pick does not exist in the schedule’s time zone — the hour a clock skips when daylight saving begins — the form refuses it rather than silently shifting your schedule by an hour.

Page tweaks

Optional selectors that change the page before the shot is taken. They describe this particular page, so they live on the schedule. A sitemap schedule has only Hide these elements, applied to every page of the sitemap. Covered in full in Advanced selectors.

Field	Type	Default	Description
`XPath of the element`	XPath	—	Under Capture one element instead of the page. Captures only this element. Image profiles only; video and PDF are always the whole page.
`Click this element`	XPath	—	Under Do something before the shot. Click this element first — a tab, a “show more” link, a banner the profile did not catch.
`Hide these elements`	CSS or XPath	—	Up to 25 selectors, separated by commas, hidden before the shot — a chat bubble, a sticky bar, a promo strip.
`Hover over this element`	XPath	—	Hold the pointer here so a dropdown or tooltip is in the shot.

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