# 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 keep — and pay for — leads that match your criteria. Filtering behaves differently depending on the scraper.
- [lobstr.io email notifications: run alerts and account alerts](https://help.lobstr.io/core-concepts/notifications.md): lobstr.io emails you when a Squid run finishes (optional, per-Squid) and automatically when a synced account needs attention — for example when its login cookies expire.
- [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.
- [How filtering works in the Google Maps Leads Scraper](https://help.lobstr.io/guides/google-maps/filtering.md): The Google Maps Leads Scraper has two kinds of filter: free accuracy filters that drop irrelevant results, and credit-costing data filters that narrow results by website, phone, email, open/closed, and claimed status.
- [How the Category Match filter works in the Google Maps Leads Scraper](https://help.lobstr.io/guides/google-maps/filtering/category-match.md): Category Match keeps only businesses that match your search keyword or category, using translation and fuzzy matching — so you don't collect or pay for the wrong business type.
- [Claimed Status Filter: target owner-claimed or unclaimed Google Maps listings](https://help.lobstr.io/guides/google-maps/filtering/claimed-status-filter.md): The Claimed Status Filter narrows your Google Maps Leads Scraper results by owner-claimed status — target claimed businesses, or unclaimed listings for 'claim your business' outreach.
- [How Exact Name Match filters Google Maps results by business name](https://help.lobstr.io/guides/google-maps/filtering/exact-name-match.md): Exact Name Match is an optional Google Maps Leads Scraper filter that keeps only results whose business name starts with your search query — ideal for scraping a single brand or chain like Peugeot or Starbucks.
- [How the Geo Match filter works in the Google Maps Leads Scraper](https://help.lobstr.io/guides/google-maps/filtering/geo-match.md): Geo Match keeps only businesses within 50 km of your chosen location, skipping out-of-area results before they reach your output file — so you don't collect or pay for them.
- [Only Leads with Emails: keep only Google Maps results that have an email](https://help.lobstr.io/guides/google-maps/filtering/only-leads-with-emails.md): Only Leads with Emails drops every Google Maps Leads Scraper result where no email was found, leaving a ready-to-use outreach list. Requires Extract Emails from Website.
- [Phone Filter: keep Google Maps businesses with or without a phone number](https://help.lobstr.io/guides/google-maps/filtering/phone-filter.md): The Phone Filter narrows your Google Maps Leads Scraper results by phone presence — keep only businesses that have a phone number, or only those that don't.
- [Skip Closed Places: filter out closed businesses in the Google Maps Leads Scraper](https://help.lobstr.io/guides/google-maps/filtering/skip-closed-places.md): Skip Closed Places drops any business Google Maps marks as temporarily or permanently closed, so your Google Maps Leads Scraper results only contain places that are still operating.
- [Website Filter: keep Google Maps businesses with or without a website](https://help.lobstr.io/guides/google-maps/filtering/website-filter.md): The Website Filter narrows your Google Maps Leads Scraper results by website presence — keep only businesses that have a website, or only those that don't, ideal for web-design and SEO prospecting.
- [Scrape all businesses in a country with Google Maps search export](https://help.lobstr.io/guides/google-maps/scrape-country.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.
- [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.
- [How Sales Navigator filtering and data cleansing work](https://help.lobstr.io/guides/sales-navigator/filtering.md): The Sales Navigator Leads Scraper verifies every lead against your industry, company size, and seniority filters, and automatically cleans up messy profile names.
- [How to scrape only new leads with Skip Collected Leads in Sales Navigator](https://help.lobstr.io/guides/sales-navigator/skip-collected-leads.md): Turn on Skip Collected Leads so each run of your Sales Navigator Leads Scraper returns only the leads it hasn't already collected.
- [How to scrape beyond the 2,500-result limit with Split Search in Sales Navigator](https://help.lobstr.io/guides/sales-navigator/split-search.md): Turn on Split Search so your Sales Navigator Leads Scraper automatically breaks a large search into facet sub-searches and collects leads beyond the 2,500-result limit.
- [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.
- [How proxies work for your synced accounts](https://help.lobstr.io/safety/account-proxies.md): When you sync a login-based account like LinkedIn or Sales Navigator, lobstr.io automatically routes it through a residential proxy in the country you connected from — no setup and no proxy of your own required.
- [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.
- [How we measure scraper status and uptime](https://help.lobstr.io/safety/scraper-status.md): How lobstr.io calculates the live reliability shown on every scraper's store page — hourly canary runs, the daily color tiers, the 90-day uptime score, and the paused state.

## OpenAPI Specs

- [openapi](https://help.lobstr.io/api-reference/openapi.json)