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Add an email address to your Squid and lobstr.io sends your scraped data there every time a run completes successfully. No checking the dashboard, no manual download. It’s the simplest delivery option — one field, no credentials, nothing to set up on the other side, and it works with any address you like.
This is not the same as run notifications. Those go to the email you signed up with, and only tell you whether a run succeeded or failed — no data. Email delivery goes to any address you name and sends the results themselves.
Email sends the data to a person’s inbox. If you’d rather it landed in a system your tools already read from, use Google Sheets or Amazon S3 — or turn on several at once, since delivery channels work side by side.

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Set up email delivery

1

Open the Delivery panel

Go to your Squid and click the Delivery icon in the top-right of the page. Email is the first section in the panel.
2

Enter an email address

Type the address you want notifications sent to.
This doesn’t have to be the email you signed up with. Use a shared team inbox, an alias, a distribution list, or a dedicated address that feeds another tool — whatever suits how you work.
3

Test it

Click Test Email. A confirmation appears at the top of the page reading Email test is successful, and a test message arrives in the inbox.Do this before saving — it’s the quickest way to catch a typo in the address.
4

Enable and save

Tick the checkbox beside Email to activate it, then click Save.
An address typed in with the box left unticked won’t send anything. The field and the checkbox are separate — you need both.
From here on, every successful run sends an email, including scheduled ones.

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What the email looks like

The message confirms your extraction is available and lists: Below that is a red Download your data button that gets you the CSV.
“Cluster name” is the Squid’s name — the email uses older wording for the same thing.

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Things to know

  • One address per Squid. The field takes a single email. To reach several people, point it at a shared inbox or a distribution list.
  • Email delivery is per Squid. Set it up separately on each Squid you want notifications from.
  • Data retention still applies. Results are stored for 28 days on paid plans and 7 days on the free plan. After that the email stays in your inbox but the download no longer works, so save anything you need to keep.
  • You can combine delivery channels. Email, Google Sheets, SFTP, webhooks, and Amazon S3 each have their own checkbox in the Delivery panel and can all be active at once — so you can be notified by email and have the data pushed to a sheet or a bucket.
  • Only successful runs send email. A run that errors out won’t. If you want to hear about failures too, turn on run notifications as well — the two work independently.
  • Nothing is sent retroactively. Runs that finished before you enabled email delivery don’t trigger a message.