Guide to automating screenshots with Make

With the PagePixels Screenshots Make app, you can automate the process of taking, creating, and sending screenshots between the thousands of services Make supports, such as:

Both PagePixels and Make are free to try. To get started, create your free PagePixels account here and free Make account at this link.

Make (formerly Integromat) is a no-code visual automation platform for automating manual, repetitive business processes between different apps.

A few examples of business processes you can automate with Make include:

Business process automations in Make are called Scenarios and to create a scenario you need two things - a Trigger and one or more Action modules.

Below is a list of Triggers and Actions you can access through the PagePixels Screenshots Make app.

Triggers

Actions

Below are the steps for connecting your PagePixels Screenshots account to Make:

1

Log in to your Make account.

If you don't already have a Make account, you can create a free one here.

2

Click the "+ Create a Scenario" button

3

Add a PagePixels Screenshots Trigger or Action

Search for and click on the PagePixels Screenshots app.

Select a Trigger or Action module

4

Click Create a Connection

5

Name your connection and click Save

6

Authenticate your PagePixels account.

Once you successfully connect your PagePixels account to Make, you’re ready to start automating your screenshots.

Below are examples to help demonstrate how you can automate screenshots in Make.

CREATE A SCREENSHOT EXAMPLE

How to take, download, and send screenshots to your Google Drive

Using the PagePixels "Create a Screenshot of a Web Page" Action, you can automate taking screenshots of web pages within Make.

To demonstrate, we're going to create a Scenario that takes a screenshot, downloads a copy of the screenshot, and saves the image to Google Drive.

1

Click the + Create a new scenario button

2

Add the PagePixels Create a Web Page Screenshot Action

Search for and click on the PagePixels Screenshots app.

Select "Create a Screenshot of a Web Page"

3

Configure your screenshot

Copy and paste your web page URL into the "Website URL" field (required).

All other fields are optional. When you're done configuring your screenshot, click the "OK" button.

4

Add the HTTP Get a file Action

Click the "Add another module" button.

Search for and click on the "HTTP" app and choose the "Get a file" Action module.

5

Configure the Get a file Action to fetch the screenshot

In the "Get a file" module, click into the "URL" field, and select the "Direct Link" item option.

Click the "OK" button at the bottom.

6

Add the Google Drive Upload a file Action

Click the "Add another module" button.

Search for and click on the "Google Drive" app and choose the "Upload a file" Action module.

7

Configure uploading your screenshot file to Google Drive

The File field should auto-select the HTTP - Get a file item option for you.

Complete the other fields to your preference. When you're done, click the "OK" button.

Note - after clicking the "OK" button, an red error bubble may appear on your Google Drive module. To clear the errors, click into the module, and click the "OK" button again.

8

Test your Scenario

Click on the "Run once" play button to test your scenario.

After a successful test run in Make, you should see a screenshot image file appear in your Google Drive.

9

Turn on your Scenario (or add another Action)

To have your Scenario run automatically, toggle the scheduling toggle (bottom-left) to the "ON" position.

🎉 Your Scenario is now complete and by default, it will run every 15 minutes.

CUSTOM HTML EXAMPLE

How to create screenshots of your Microsoft 365 Outlook emails

There's countless things you can do with the PagePixels "Create a Screenshot from Custom HTML" Action in Make, but one common use case is creating screenshots of emails.

To demonstrate how you can do this, we're going to create a Scenario that automates creating screenshots of new email messages in Outlook (Microsoft 365 Email).

REQUIREMENTS

• A PagePixels account connected to Make.
• A Microsoft 365 Outlook email account connected to Make.

1

Click the + Create a new scenario button

2

Add the Microsft 365 Email Watch Messages Trigger

Search for the Microsoft 365 Email app and select the "Watch Messages" Trigger.

3

Configure your Watch Messages Trigger

Choose when to Make should start watching for new email messages, and click the "OK" button.

Next, specify which new emails you want to use in your automation.

For example, in the image below we chose to watch only messages in a specific folder, called Test.

When everything looks good to go, click the "OK" button.

4

Add the PagePixels Create a Screenshot from Custom HTML Action

Click the "Add another module" button

Search for and click on the "PagePixels Screenshots" app and choose the "Create a Screenshot from Custom HTML" Action.

5

Configure your screenshot

Click into the Custom HTML field and select the "Body: Content" data item from the "Watch Messages" module.

(This item contains the HTML for your email)

To have the entire email appear in the screenshot, scroll to the "Full Page" field and select the "Yes" option.

Once you're done configuring your screenshot, click the "OK" button.

6

Test your Scenario (optional)

Click on the "Run once" play button to test your scenario.

Important note: To test the full scenario, requires a new email in your Outlook account that meets the conditions set in the "Watch Messages" Trigger.

7

Turn on your Scenario (or add an Action)

To have your Scenario run automatically, toggle the scheduling toggle (bottom-left) to the "ON" position.

🎉 Your Scenario is now complete and will automatically run when the conditions of the "Watch Messages" trigger are met.

Use PagePixels Multi-Step Screenshot feature to interact with websites before capturing a screenshot, so you can:

PagePixels Multi-Step works by making browser actions (click, input text, press enter, etc.) available for you to add, and then PagePixels runs those actions for you before taking the screenshot.

You can access Multi-Step functionality through the "Multi-Step Actions" field in the following Action modules:

Multi-Step Actions

Here's a list of browser actions (aka "Multi-Step Actions") you can use, and what the expected format is for Make.

{"type": "click", "selector": "#your-selector"}

{"type": "hover", "selector": "#your-selector"}

{"type": "redirect", "value": "https://example.com"}

{"type": "javascript", "value": "console.log('my javascript');"}

{"type": "evaluateJs", "value": "console.log('my javascript');"}

{"type": "css", "value": "#selector{ color: red }"}

{"type": "text_field", "selector": "#the-text-field", "value": "your-value"}

{"type": "select", "selector": "#the-dropdown-field", "value": "selected value"}

{"type": "checkbox", "selector": "#the-checkbox-field", "value":true}

{"type": "submit"}

{"type": "wait", "value": "5000"}

{"type": "wait_for_selector", "selector": "#your-selector"}

MULTISTEP SCREENSHOT EXAMPLE

How to perform a search with Multi-Step Actions

Suppose we want to search Wikipedia for "hawaiian monk seal", and then take a screenshot of the results page.

For example:

To accomplish this in Make, you can use the Create a Screenshots of a Web Page Action module, and the following inputs:

1

Website URL

https://www.wikipedia.org/

For Multi-Step screenshots, the “Website URL” is the starting point of our step sequence and where the first Multi-Step Action takes place.

Important Note - The URL must include "https://" or "http://" and be publicly available.

2

Multi-Step Actions

[{"type": "text_field", "selector": "#searchInput", "value": "hawaiian monk seal"},{"type": "submit"}]

Breakdown of each action

{"type": "text_field", "selector": "#searchInput", "value": "hawaiian monk seal"}

• This action will input the text value "hawaiian monk seal" into the search text field identified by a CSS selector (#searchInput).

{"type": "submit"}

• This action simulates pressing the "Enter" key to submit a form. In this case, it submits our search to Wikipedia.

📝 Notes

• The screenshot generated in this example uses the default settings for "Page Width" (1920px), "Page Height" (1000px), and "Wait Time to Capture Screenshot" (1500ms). Feel free to change these settings in Make to fit your needs.

To learn more about Multi-Step and see more examples of how to use this feature in Make, check out our Multi-Step Help Guide.

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Using PagePixels' Create a Website Domain Research Report Action in Make.com, you can analyze and extract structured data from websites and domains in bulk, guided by your custom AI prompts.

The Website Domain Research feature is helpful for automating:

With Website Domain Research, you can provide just the primary domain (example.com), and our system will crawl the website to find whatever information you need. Or if you want a more focused extraction, you can provide the full URL for the web page.

Once we've processed your domain research request, you can access it in an easy-to-use, clean, structured format for your Make Scenarios. No web scraped mess.

You can try PagePixels' Website Domain Research functionality for free. Free accounts get 25 free monthly credits (1 domain = 1 credit). Paid subscribers get 125 free monthly credits.

About Create a Domain Research Report Action fields

To use the Create a Website Domain Research Report Action in Make, you'll need to provide the following information.

Domains (required)

Enter one or more domains or websites. You can add the domains you want to analyze manually or you can use data from another Make app (e.g. Google Sheets, Microsoft Excel).

NOTE: You can use commas or new lines as delimiters.

Data To Extract (required)

Describe the data you want to extract using data_type, data_field_name, and data_field_prompt_description inputs as described below.

Note: You can analyze up to 100 custom "Extraction Field" items per report. Each "Extraction Field" item contains a single data_type, data_field_name, and data_field_prompt_description field input.

Report Title (optional)

Give your report a name for easier reference and differentiation. This information is not used in the analysis.

Additional Notes (optional)

Add extra details about the report for you and your team. This information is not used in the analysis.

Example: How to automate qualifying leads in Make

Let's suppose you have a list of company domains and want to identify which ones are high-quality by giving them a lead score based on a set criteria.

For example, the criteria could be that they need to be a B2B company, have a team over 50 people, and offer a cloud-based solution.

In addition, you decide to gather details like phone numbers, social media profiles, and whether or not they have an investor page.

Here is an example configuration of how you can automate this process using the PagePixels Screenshots Create a Website Domain Research Report Action in Make.

Example Breakdown: Data To Extract

String Example

Crawls the domain to find a business or sales phone number. Note: When the data you want is a phone number, you'll want to use String as the data type (not Number).

Number Example

The AI analyzes the domain based on the provided criteria and determine what number between 1-100 best represents how close it matches the criteria (the higher the number the better the match).

Boolean Example

Checks if the website has an investor page. If it does, returns “t” for true. Otherwise returns “f” for false.

Array Example

Looks for the website's social media links and returns them as an array.

Example Output

Once you're satisfied with your configuration inputs, you can click "Save" and run the module.

If successful, the action will return the data you requested for extraction in a clean format you can use in a subsequent app.

For Example

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