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Community Story Rewards pays you in credits for talking about lobstr.io in public. Share how you actually use it — in a comment on one of the eligible subreddits, or in a public post on LinkedIn — submit the link, and once our team verifies it you get bonus credits worth 20% of your plan’s monthly credit allowance. One reward per account, per quarter, on either platform. The credits are non-cash and they expire, so it’s worth claiming yours when you have a run you actually want to spend them on.

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What you get

Your reward scales with your plan, because it’s calculated as 20% of that plan’s monthly credit allowance.
On the free plan there’s no monthly allowance to take 20% of, so your reward is calculated from the Starter plan instead — you get the same 2,000 credits a Starter subscriber would. If you’re on a custom plan, your reward is 20% of your own negotiated allowance. Either way, the submission form spells out which plan your reward is based on before you submit anything.

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Free plan: your export cap is lifted too

On the free plan, run exports are capped at 30 rows — enough to check that a scraper works, not enough to use the data. 2,000 credits would be useless against that cap, so the reward lifts it as well. For 30 days after your reward is granted, you can export your runs in full, with no row limit. Once the 30 days are up, the cap comes back and any reward credits you haven’t spent expire alongside it. So claim the reward when you’re ready to actually run something.

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What qualifies

The reward is the same on both platforms, and so are these rules:
  • It mentions lobstr.io. Something about web scraping in general, with no mention of lobstr.io, earns nothing.
  • It’s genuine. Write about what you actually did — the problem you had, what you used lobstr.io for, what changed. Copy-pasted endorsements get rejected.
  • It stays live for at least 3 days. Your comment or post has to remain publicly visible for three days after you submit it. Delete it, or let it get removed, and the reward doesn’t land.
The format is where the two platforms differ.
  • It’s a comment, not a post. Standalone posts read as self-promotion on Reddit and get removed by subreddit rules, which is exactly what we’re trying to avoid. Reply inside an existing thread where the recommendation is genuinely relevant.
  • It’s in an eligible subreddit. The submission form lists the current ones. Anything else is refused the moment you submit.

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Eligible subreddits

The list is managed by our team and changes over time, so treat the submission form as the source of truth. At the time of writing it covers:r/automation · r/dataengineering · r/DataHoarder · r/datasets · r/GrowthHacking · r/LeadGeneration · r/n8n · r/nocode · r/saas · r/sales · r/salesdevelopment · r/scrapy · r/webscraping · r/zapier

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Before you comment, check your Reddit account

Many of these subreddits require your Reddit account to reach a minimum age and karma before AutoModerator will let you post or comment. If your account is new, your comment can be auto-removed within seconds — before a single person reads it, and with no notification to you.Check the subreddit’s rules first. A comment that AutoModerator removed can’t be verified, and from our side it’s indistinguishable from a comment you deleted yourself.

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How to submit

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Open the submission form

There are two ways in. Click Submit your story in the banner at the top of your dashboard, or go to Overview in the left sidebar and use the Community Story Rewards card. Both open the same submission form.
The Overview page with the Community Story Rewards banner at the top and the Submit your story card in the middle column
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Choose where you shared it

Under Where did you share it?, pick Reddit or LinkedIn. The terms and the URL field below switch to match.
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Publish your comment or post

Find a relevant thread in one of the eligible subreddits and leave your comment. Mention lobstr.io and describe your real use case.
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Copy the URL

Use the comment’s own permalink — the Share option on that specific comment, not the URL of the thread it sits in. It looks like https://www.reddit.com/r/webscraping/comments/...
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Paste it and submit

Drop the URL into the Reddit comment URL or LinkedIn post URL field — Submit stays greyed out until you do — then submit. If the link isn’t valid, or on Reddit the subreddit isn’t eligible, you’ll be told immediately and nothing is consumed.
The submission form with Reddit selected, showing the reward terms, the AutoModerator warning, the eligible subreddit list, and the Reddit comment URL field

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After you submit

Track your submission on the Community Story Rewards card on your Overview page. It moves through three states: Reviews are done by a person, not instantly by a script, so expect a wait rather than a result in seconds. Credits are granted after your comment or post has been live for three days, and the card confirms it when they land:
The Community Story Rewards card confirming that reward credits have been granted
The card doesn’t repeat the credit figure, so check Credits available at the top of your Overview page to see the new balance.

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If your submission is rejected

A rejection doesn’t burn your quarterly attempt. The card shows why it failed and gives you a Submit another story button to try again in the same quarter — your most recent submission is the one that counts.
The Community Story Rewards card showing a rejected submission with the reason and a Submit another story button
The usual reasons:
  • The URL doesn’t point to a real comment or post. On Reddit this is shown as “Invalid Reddit URL — does not point to a real post or comment.” Almost always the thread’s URL instead of the comment’s own permalink, or a link to something that has since been removed.
  • It doesn’t mention lobstr.io. Check that the mention actually made it into what you published.
  • It’s gone. Deleted by you, or removed by a moderator, AutoModerator or LinkedIn. Nothing can be verified against a comment or post that isn’t there.
  • The wrong format. On Reddit, a post instead of a comment. On LinkedIn, a comment on someone else’s post instead of your own post.
  • The subreddit isn’t eligible. Caught at submission time, so this one shouldn’t reach review.
  • The LinkedIn post isn’t public, or the profile isn’t identifiable. Our team has to be able to open it, and see a real person behind it.
  • It isn’t a genuine story. Generic praise or a one-line shout-out, with no real use case or result behind it.

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Spending your reward credits

Reward credits sit on top of your normal plan balance and are spent on runs like any other credit.
They expire 30 days after they’re granted. Reward credits don’t roll into your next billing cycle and there’s no extension — anything unspent at the 30-day mark is gone. On the free plan, the lifted export cap expires on the same clock.
Rewards are always non-cash. They’re credits on your lobstr.io account, not a refund, discount, or payout.

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Frequently asked questions

Only one submission per quarter is reviewed, across both platforms. If a submission was rejected you can submit again in the same quarter, and the most recent one takes precedence — so a rejection doesn’t cost you the quarter. Once a reward has been granted, your next one is available in the following quarter.
Not in the same quarter. It’s one submission per account per quarter, on either platform — a Reddit comment one quarter and a LinkedIn post the next is fine.
No. Free accounts qualify, and get the Starter-equivalent reward of 2,000 credits plus a 30-day lift on the 30-row export cap.
Please don’t. It has to stay live for at least three days, and it’s re-checked before credits are granted — a comment or post that’s gone by then means no reward.
It’s treated the same as deleting it: there’s nothing left to verify, so the submission is rejected. You can post elsewhere and submit again. Check the subreddit’s karma and account-age rules before posting to avoid this.
Yes. They’re added on top of your existing balance rather than replacing it, and they’re tracked separately so you can see what came from the reward.
Yes. The /v1/community_rewards/ endpoints let you list eligible subreddits, submit a URL, and check your submission status. See Community Story Rewards in the API documentation.

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Need help?

If your submission was rejected and you don’t think it should have been, contact our support team with the comment or post URL, or email contact@lobstr.io.