Connect your app to Parallel
Connect Parallel to let your app search the live internet, read webpages and documents, and compile cited research reports. You can set it up instantly using Lovable credits or connect your own Parallel account.
Anyone building tools like market research dashboards, lead enrichment lists, or chatbots that need up-to-date facts from the live web.
Do this, in order
- 1
Open the Connectors page in your Lovable dashboard and select Parallel.
This is where you set up and manage connections to outside web services.
- 2
Click Connect and give your connection a name.
Naming it clearly helps you and your team identify which connection you are using.
- 3
Choose either 'Managed by Lovable' or 'Use your own credentials'.
Managed requires no account and bills against your Lovable credits, while your own account lets you pay Parallel directly and enables background web monitoring.
- 4
Paste your API key if using your own credentials, select who can access the connection under Sharing, and click Connect.
This saves the connection with your chosen security settings.
- 5
Open your project chat and tell Lovable to link to Parallel and build your research feature.
Lovable will wire up the connection to your app interface automatically.
Paste this into your project
Connect this project to Parallel and build a research chatbot that answers questions using information from the live web. Include direct links to sources for every answer and allow users to ask follow-up questions.
Words decoded
- API key
- A private digital code that acts like a password to let Lovable communicate with your external account.
- Webhook
- An automated notification sent between apps as soon as new information is found.
- Markdown
- A simple way of writing plain text that easily converts into headings, bullet points, and links.
Where people get stuck
- Background web monitoring is not supported on 'Managed by Lovable' connections; you must connect your own API key to watch the web for changes on a schedule.
- Deleting the connector in Lovable will not cancel running monitors in Parallel; you must turn them off in Parallel to avoid continued charges.
- You can only have one 'Managed by Lovable' Parallel connection per workspace at a time.
- The connector does not support discovery queries like 'find all companies matching a description' (FindAll API).
- If your workspace runs out of credits while using a managed connection, all web search requests will fail until credits are refilled.
The short version, steps, decoder and prompt on this page are written automatically from Lovable's own documentation and can lag or misread it. The official page is always the authority.