Exports and history
The complete guide to exports
Getting a list out is where most tools quietly overcharge and then hand you a file called export(3).csv. This is the whole path, from the filter you built to the file you can still make sense of a month later.
You pay for rows, not pages
An export is counted in leads: one row, one lead. Export fifty shops and you are charged fifty, not rounded up to a hundred. The cost is reserved at the full page size when the job starts and reconciled down to what was actually delivered, so the difference comes back to you automatically.
Set your columns before you export, not after
The columns you can see are the columns you get. Deciding here is quicker than trimming a spreadsheet later, and if you have a set you use often you can save it by name and pick it up on any machine.
Choose a span of pages
You take a range rather than everything at once. A page is 100 rows. A CSV can take up to 100 pages in one go; a Google Sheet up to 50, because a sheet is written row by row into someone else’s document and the shorter job is the one that finishes reliably.
Name the file
You are asked what to call it before it arrives. The suggestion already carries the date, the time on your own clock and the pages it covers, so accepting it unchanged still gives you something you can find. What you type is remembered for next time.
Keep going without starting over
The box stays open. It logs what you have taken in this sitting and lines up the next range by your own batch size, so a large list becomes a rhythm rather than a chore. Ask for a range you have already taken and it stops you and makes you confirm, which is what stops you paying twice after losing your place.
Or send it straight to a spreadsheet
Rows can go into a Google Sheet instead of a file. The sheet has to be shared so that anyone with the link can edit, which is the step people miss. Everything you export in one sitting lands in a single tab with the serial number carrying on, rather than scattering across a tab per batch.
Find it again later
Every export is kept for 100 days with the file name you gave it, the pages it covered, and a link back to the search that produced it. Taking it again — as a CSV or into a sheet — costs nothing, because those rows are already paid for.
Worth knowing
- Your filters travel with the file. A column you filtered on says so in its own heading — Country (US) rather than just Country — so a file you open three weeks later explains itself.
- Dates read the way they read on screen: 20 Aug 2026, not a raw timestamp.
- If an export is bigger than your remaining balance it is capped rather than refused. Your balance buys as many rows as it covers and you are told before you confirm.
- A Google Sheets export interrupted part way continues from the row it reached when you run it again, rather than writing everything twice. An export appends, so this is the difference between a retry and a duplicate.
- Google rejects any export containing a cell longer than 50,000 characters. A very small number of shops have a description that long; those cells are trimmed to fit and you are told how many, so one unusual row cannot cost you the whole export.
- Starting a fresh export from the grid always charges, even for a filter you ran yesterday. The data is live and yesterday’s filter set is not today’s rows.
- Running out of leads does not mean upgrading. Extra leads can be bought on their own and your plan is untouched.
Try this on the real database
Free trial with the full dataset and every filter, and the allowance resets daily rather than expiring.