Connect Bright Data
You need API key. About two minutes.
1Get your API key
API key
Paste the API key- Open Account settings in the control panel, signed in as an admin.
- In the API key section, click Add API key.
- Pick the user, the Finance permission and an expiration, then save.
- Copy the key now: it is shown only once.
Bright Data control panel, Settings, Users, API tokens.
Open the pagehttps://brightdata.com/cp/setting/users
2Add it to CreditBar
- Open CreditBar from the menu bar and choose Settings, then Accounts.
- Click Add account and pick Bright Data.
- Paste the API key into the matching field, and give the account a label you will recognise.
- Click Test connection, then Add. Numbers appear in the menu bar within a minute.
Keys are stored in your Mac's Keychain and only ever sent to Bright Data. Nothing passes through a CreditBar server.
3What it reads
- Reports
- money in the account, and what next cycle is already owed
- Calls
- https://api.brightdata.com/customer/balance
- Refreshes
- At most every 10 minutes
- API docs
- Bright Data reference, checked 2026-09-18
Prepaid balance. `pending_balance` is what the next cycle already owes, and it is shown beside the balance rather than subtracted from it.