Capture a URL

Choose Capture URL in the Drive header, paste the address, choose a capture profile and a destination, then choose Capture URL again to submit. Drive files a request and preserves the page as evidence; the capture itself happens after you submit, not while you wait.

File a request

1. Choose Capture URL in the Drive header. The dialog explains itself: Create a Web Acquisition request for account, managed folder, or page evidence.
2. Paste the address into URL. It has to be a complete http or https address, up to 4,096 characters.
3. Choose a Capture profile: Standard evidence, Visual evidence or Document evidence.
4. Choose a Destination:
   • Account library saves the evidence under the active Account.
   • Managed folder routes it to a folder you can write to. Pick the folder under Managed folder.
   • Managed folder page attaches it to one page. Pick both the folder and the Page.
5. Choose a Repeat mode. Once starts a new capture. Reuse if fresh reuses recent evidence that is still inside the Freshness window, which you set in days from 1 to 30. Refresh after re-captures once the existing evidence is older than the Refresh threshold, which you set in hours from 1 to 720.
6. Choose Capture URL.

While it submits, the dialog says Checking capture authority and backend intake. On acceptance it reports Capture request accepted, the request identifier, and the destination it went to.

Recurring is listed as a repeat mode but cannot be chosen. Selecting it fails with Recurring captures are not accepting requests yet.

Where the button is

Capture URL sits in the Drive header, and on a managed folder when the feature is switched on there. If you reach for it from a folder where it is not offered, Drive says Open Capture URL from the Drive header.

What Drive refuses to capture

Message	Cause
Enter a URL to capture.	The field is empty.
Enter a complete URL including http:// or https://.	The address is not a valid URL.
Capture URL accepts only http or https URLs.	Another scheme, such as ftp or file.
Enter a public URL without embedded credentials.	The address carries a username or password.
Local, private-network, and link-local URLs cannot be captured.	The host is localhost, a .local name, or a private or loopback address.
Enter a shorter URL.	Over 4,096 characters.
Select a valid managed folder destination.	No folder chosen for a folder destination.
Select a valid managed-folder page destination.	No page chosen for a page destination.

If it did not work

• Capture URL is not accepting requests yet. No capture was started. and Capture URL is not reachable. No capture was started. both mean nothing was captured. Submitting again re-checks the same request rather than filing a duplicate.
• Capture URL could not submit the request. No capture was started. behaves the same way: choose Capture URL again.
• Managed folder list unavailable; destination authority is still checked on submit. means the picker could not load. Type the folder identifier and submit; your access is still verified.
• Writing to the destination needs write access there. Choose Account library if a folder keeps being refused.