# lobstr.io ## Docs - [Manage billing details, payment methods, and invoices](https://help.lobstr.io/billing/billing-information.md): Update your billing address and VAT details, add or remove payment cards, and download PDF invoices from your lobstr.io account settings. - [How credit allocation affects your billing](https://help.lobstr.io/billing/credit-allocation.md): Understand how daily vs monthly credit allocation works with your lobstr.io plan, and what happens when you switch modes mid-cycle. - [How to upgrade, downgrade, or cancel your lobstr.io plan](https://help.lobstr.io/billing/manage-subscription.md): Change your lobstr.io subscription plan at any time — upgrade for more credits, downgrade to save, or cancel and pause your account. - [Reset your lobstr.io billing cycle to refresh credits early](https://help.lobstr.io/billing/reset-billing-cycle.md): If you run out of monthly credits before the cycle ends, reset your billing cycle early for a fresh allocation — and any unused credits from the previous cycle roll over. - [lobstr.io credits: how usage is measured and allocated](https://help.lobstr.io/core-concepts/credits.md): Credits are lobstr.io's usage currency. Learn what credits buy, where to find your balance, and how daily vs monthly allocation controls when you can spend them. - [Filtering in lobstr.io: geo, category, and data cleansing](https://help.lobstr.io/core-concepts/filtering.md): lobstr.io filters scraping results at the crawl level so you only pay for leads that match your criteria — covering geo, category, and data cleansing. - [How to get email notifications for Squid runs](https://help.lobstr.io/core-concepts/notifications.md): Set up email notifications on a lobstr.io Squid to get alerted when a run completes successfully or when it fails — works for both manual and scheduled runs. - [Run stop reasons: every done reason value, explained](https://help.lobstr.io/core-concepts/run-stop-reasons.md): Reference for every value that can appear in the Done Reason column of the Runs table — what each one means, why it happened, and what to do next. - [Runs: how a Squid actually executes and produces data](https://help.lobstr.io/core-concepts/runs.md): A run is a single execution of a Squid. Learn how runs are triggered, the lifecycle and statuses, the Runs table, the run detail page, and how concurrency works. - [How to schedule a Squid to run automatically](https://help.lobstr.io/core-concepts/scheduling.md): Schedule lobstr.io Squids to launch automatically by minutes, hours, days, weeks, or specific dates — with per-Squid timezones and error notifications. - [Slots: how concurrent scraping capacity works](https://help.lobstr.io/core-concepts/slots.md): Slots are parallel scraper instances. They cap how many scrapers can run at the same time across your Squids, and how many instances a single run can use as concurrency. - [Squids: configure, schedule, and manage scraping jobs](https://help.lobstr.io/core-concepts/squids.md): Squids are lobstr.io's scraping jobs. Configure, name, schedule, and manage Squids to automate data collection on LinkedIn, Google Maps, and more. - [Tasks: the inputs that tell a Squid what to scrape](https://help.lobstr.io/core-concepts/tasks.md): Tasks are the inputs for a lobstr.io Squid — URLs, queries, usernames, or structured params. Learn how tasks are added, deduplicated, and re-processed every run. - [Convert a lobstr.io CSV export into an Excel spreadsheet](https://help.lobstr.io/data/csv-to-excel.md): Open lobstr.io CSV exports cleanly in Excel using Google Sheets as an intermediary — three simple steps to get a properly formatted spreadsheet. - [How to download scraped results from a lobstr.io Squid](https://help.lobstr.io/data/download-results.md): Once a Squid run completes in lobstr.io, download results as a CSV — from an individual run or all runs combined. Data is stored for 28 days. - [Export scraped data automatically to Google Sheets](https://help.lobstr.io/data/export-to-google-sheets.md): Connect lobstr.io to Google Sheets and automatically push scraped results into a collaborative spreadsheet after every Squid run — no manual uploads needed. - [Verified business email collection from Google Maps](https://help.lobstr.io/enrichment/emails-google-maps.md): lobstr.io discovers and verifies business email addresses for Google Maps listings by crawling business websites linked in their profiles. - [Email discovery from LinkedIn Sales Navigator profiles](https://help.lobstr.io/enrichment/emails-sales-navigator.md): lobstr.io automatically finds and server-verifies professional email addresses for every Sales Navigator lead in your scraped dataset. - [How lobstr.io finds and collects emails from YouTube channels](https://help.lobstr.io/enrichment/emails-youtube.md): lobstr.io's YouTube Channel Email Scraper collects email addresses from channel About pages when creators publicly list them. - [Phone number enrichment from Sales Navigator leads](https://help.lobstr.io/enrichment/phone-numbers.md): Enable phone enrichment in the Sales Navigator Leads Scraper to add verified business phone numbers — direct dials and mobile business lines. - [How to sync third-party accounts for login-wall scraping](https://help.lobstr.io/getting-started/account-sync.md): Connect LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, or Leboncoin accounts to lobstr.io using the browser extension to scrape data behind login walls. - [How to find your API key and use the lobstr.io REST API](https://help.lobstr.io/getting-started/api-key.md): Locate your lobstr.io API key in account Settings to access the REST API for triggering Squid runs and fetching scraped results programmatically. - [Create a free lobstr.io account](https://help.lobstr.io/getting-started/sign-up.md): Sign up for free in less than a minute. No credit card required. - [Personalize messages in Leboncoin auto message sender](https://help.lobstr.io/guides/leboncoin-personalize-messages.md): Use the pseudo and title variables in Leboncoin Auto Message Sender to automatically insert each seller's nickname and listing title into your messages. - [Scrape all businesses in a country with Google Maps search export](https://help.lobstr.io/guides/scrape-country-google-maps.md): Collect business listings across an entire country using the lobstr.io Google Maps URL Generator or the Use Params feature — in a few clicks. - [Scraping limits to protect your accounts from bans](https://help.lobstr.io/safety/account-bans.md): lobstr.io enforces built-in rate limits for LinkedIn, Leboncoin, Twitter, and Facebook scrapers to keep your accounts safe from bans. - [lobstr.io account security: password, email, and deletion](https://help.lobstr.io/safety/account-security.md): Update your lobstr.io password while logged in, reset a forgotten one by email, request an email address change, or permanently delete your account. - [IP protection: your network is never exposed in lobstr.io](https://help.lobstr.io/safety/ip-protection.md): lobstr.io runs all scrapers on its own cloud servers using dedicated proxy infrastructure — your personal IP address is never used or exposed. ## OpenAPI Specs - [openapi](https://help.lobstr.io/api-reference/openapi.json)