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How to use your daily credits across multiple days?

Wanna scrape 10K+ business listings from Google Maps, but you’re limited by your daily credits limit?

In this short help article, we will see how to use your daily credits across multiple days.

run is done because of no credit left but you still have work to do

With 2 easy steps:

Update When to end run Settings
Restart collection

Let’s deep dive in.

Update When to end run Settings



The current error is due to the fact that, by default, the scraper stops the run once the day's credits have been used up.

Here, the scraper has collected 7 items, there are no more credits, it stops.

no credit left so the scraper stops here

How can I make the scraper pause and start again the next day?

It's very simple:

Go to cluster settings
Go to Settings section
Select End run once all tasks consumed

set end run once all tasks consumed

Then press Save & Exit.
What's next?

Restart collection



Now go to your scraper area and restart the collection.

The scraper will collect as much data as possible.
Once the data has been collected, the scraper will:

Pause
Restart the next day where it left off

once no credits left the scraper pauses and will start again tomorrow

And that's it!

This way, you can spread your daily credits over several days.

spread your daily credits over several days illustration

Updated on: 11/06/2024

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