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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:


  1. Update When to end run Settings
  2. 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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