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Get warned when Hunter credits run low
Each morning, Hunter's account usage is checked and an email goes out when searches or verifications left for the month drop below 10%, with the reset date.
- Runs
- Daily
- Apps
- Hunter.io
- AI
- Not needed
- Access
- API key
Send this to your assistant
Create a ClickRuntime automation: every morning, check my Hunter account and email me if fewer than 10% of my monthly searches or verifications are left, with how many remain and when they reset.
First time? Adding ClickRuntime to your assistant takes about two minutes.
Why use it
Why teams use this automation
Hunter credits run out at the worst moment: halfway through enriching a lead list, or on the day an outreach campaign was meant to start. The first sign is usually a failed search or an empty result.
This automation checks your Hunter account each morning and emails you once when searches or verifications fall below a set share of your monthly allowance, along with the date they reset.
That gives you time to upgrade, buy more credits or slow down until the reset, instead of finding out from a broken workflow.
What you get out of it
No surprises
You know credits are running low before searches start failing.
Free to run
Reading account usage does not use any credits.
One warning per period
It does not repeat the same alert every day.
Both credit types
Searches and verifications are tracked separately.
Reset date included
You can decide whether to wait or top up.
How it works
What happens, step by step
Every morning, ClickRuntime reads your Hunter account usage.
It compares searches and verifications used against your plan's monthly allowance.
If either drops below 10% left, it emails you the numbers and the reset date.
It warns once per billing period, so you are not emailed every day.
Before it runs live
- Connect Hunter.io
What you get
Build your own
Need it to work differently?
Your own rules
Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.
Any number of apps
One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.
AI where it helps
Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.
On a schedule or on each event
Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.
Changes you can ask for
- Run it at a different time, more or less often, or only on weekdays
- Add an AI step, for example to summarize, sort or draft a reply
- Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
- Combine it with other Hunter.io steps into one automation
Under the hood
The code that runs this automation
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, notify, state
THRESHOLD = 0.10
@on_trigger
def run(event):
data = http.get("https://api.hunter.io/v2/account",
params={"api_key": credentials.secret("HUNTER_API_KEY")}).json()["data"]
reset = data.get("reset_date", "")
lines, low = [], []
for kind in ("searches", "verifications"):
r = data["requests"][kind]
left = r["available"] - r["used"]
lines.append(f"{kind.title()}: {r['used']:,} of {r['available']:,} used, {left:,} left")
if r["available"] and left / r["available"] < THRESHOLD:
low.append((kind, left))
warned = state.get("warned") or {}
fresh = [k for k, _ in low if warned.get(k) != reset]
if fresh:
kind, left = low[0]
notify.email_me(f"Hunter: {left:,} {kind} left this month", "\n".join(lines) + f"\nCredits reset on {reset}.")
state.set("warned", {**warned, **{k: reset for k in fresh}})
return {"low": [k for k, _ in low]}FAQ
Common questions
Does checking usage cost credits?
Can I change the 10% threshold?
Will I get the same warning every day?
What permissions does it need?
Does it need AI?
How many runs does it use?
Can I change how it works?
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