Every connected LinkedIn account has a daily cap: the most LinkedIn activity filtrat may run on it in one day. On top of the cap, filtrat paces its activity so it looks like a person working through searches, not a burst of requests.
What the cap counts
The Daily cap in Settings → LinkedIn Accounts is counted in search requests. One request reads one page of up to 100 people.
| Limit | |
|---|---|
| Search requests (pages) per day | Your Daily cap; 1,000 by default |
| Profiles opened one by one per day | 250, a fixed lower limit |
Searches, profile views and monitor checks all count. Email verification and the email finder never use LinkedIn, so they never touch the cap.
The count resets at midnight in your time zone. Used today in Settings shows where each account stands, and the Leads page shows today's usage next to the account name.
Change the cap
- Open Settings and expand LinkedIn Accounts.
- Click the number in the Daily cap column.
- Type the new cap and press Enter.
Lower it if you use the account heavily yourself, if it's a new account, or if it's your main profile and you want to keep its activity modest. Raising it lets large captures finish in fewer days, at the cost of more daily activity on the account.
What happens at the cap
- Captures on that account pause with Daily limit reached. Continues tomorrow. and pick up after midnight on their own.
- If you have other connected accounts with room left, new jobs on Auto use them instead. filtrat picks the account with the most room left; your default account breaks ties.
- Nothing is lost: people already saved stay in the list, and the capture continues where it stopped.
How pacing works
Within the cap, filtrat spaces out its activity:
- Pages are read one at a time with short gaps, like someone paging through results.
- After a large search, the account pauses before starting its next one. You may see Next search starts in… on a capture.
- Each account runs one search at a time. Captures that need many searches line up behind each other.
If LinkedIn pushes back on an account several times in a row, filtrat stops using it and lets it rest for a day. You'll get a notification, and the capture shows LinkedIn kept limiting this account, so it's resting for a day. Other accounts on the same capture keep going. From the capture you can check the account again sooner; if LinkedIn is still limiting it, it keeps resting.
Captures that take several days
A capture that needs more pages than your accounts have left today is planned over several days. Before it starts, the preview shows how long it will take and asks you to confirm. See Searches over 2,500 people.
LinkedIn doesn't publish its limits. The default cap and pacing are set to be careful, but the account and the decision are yours. See Keep your LinkedIn account safe.