Providers, keys & billing
The four provider accounts, their keys, and what your usage costs.
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- Why Huntit uses your provider accountsYou connect four provider accounts of your own, so you pay each provider directly, at cost, with no markup.
- The four providers and what each powersBrightData, Apify, Gemini, and YouTube each power part of Huntit — all four are required, and the YouTube key is free.
- Get your BrightData keySign up with your company email, make a first deposit, turn auto-recharge on, then create an Admin key that never expires and paste it in.
- Reading your key states — and fixing a rejected keyWhat each key pill means — Not set, Verified, Invalid, and the amber family — plus the exact rejection message you saw, its cause, and its fix.
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- BrightData funding rulesA $10 minimum first deposit (matched 1:1 up to $500 once ever), auto-recharge that keeps collection alive, and why setup blocks on funding but Settings only warns.
- BrightData account troublesCard declined, ID verification, "Suspended by system", and KYC — what each means and the honest fix, with retries used carefully.
- Get your Apify keySign in to Apify, put the account on a paid plan (Starter or higher), then copy your API token — a free-plan key is rejected.
- Get your Gemini keyMake a project in Google AI Studio, add billing to it, buy credit with auto-reload on, then create the key — in that order, because a key on a project with no credit is refused.
- Get your YouTube Data API keyEnable the YouTube Data API v3 in the Google Cloud console and create an API key — it's free within Google's daily quota, so there's no billing step.
- Managing keys — replace, re-test, write-onlyKeys are stored write-only and never shown again — replace, re-test, and read "Last checked" in Settings → Credentials, behind its own permission.
- "Turn on scraping" — the activation momentWith all four keys verified, "Turn on scraping" runs one last live BrightData check, then switches on discovery, tracking, and AI analysis for your agency.
- The provider alert bellsSix bells tell you when a provider account stops your collection, or a daily allowance runs out — four for billing, two for YouTube — and each clears the moment the cause is fixed.
- What your usage costsThe Billing & costs panel shows estimated per-post and per-run figures — you pay BrightData, Apify, and Google directly, and their dashboards are the source of truth.
- Monthly usage countersThe Usage table on each client counts successful posts, briefs, custom runs, and comments this month — failures don't count, and usage is not your invoice.