Keep your LinkedIn account safe

LinkedIn watches for unusual activity and can restrict accounts that do too much, too fast. filtrat is built to stay well within normal use, but a few habits on your side make a real difference.

What filtrat does for you

• Daily caps. Every account has a cap on searches per day, 1,000 pages by default, and a lower fixed limit on profiles opened one by one.
• Pacing. Pages are read with gaps, and accounts pause between large searches.
• One search at a time per account, however many captures you start.
• Automatic stop. If LinkedIn pushes back on an account several times in a row, filtrat stops using it and lets it rest for a day. You get a notification.
• Your consent for long captures. A capture that runs over several days only starts after you confirm I understand and want to continue.

What you can do

Pick the right account

• Use an account you own and sign in to regularly, with a complete profile and some history. Brand-new or rarely used accounts are restricted more easily.
• If you have a team, connect more than one account. Work is spread across them, so each one does less.

Set a sensible cap

• Keep the default cap, or lower it, for the account you rely on every day.
• Lower it further if you also search and message a lot by hand from the same account. Your own activity and filtrat's add up on LinkedIn's side.
• Raise it only for accounts you're comfortable using heavily, and only after they've run smoothly for a while.

Change the cap in Settings → LinkedIn Accounts: click the number in Daily cap.

Plan big captures

• Capture what you need, not everything. A focused search of 1,000 people is often more useful than 20,000 loosely matched ones.
• For very large searches, let the capture run over several days rather than raising the cap to finish in one.
• Share large Sales Navigator captures across several accounts under Advanced capture settings.

Don't fight the warnings

• If LinkedIn shows you a warning or asks you to verify your identity, stop large captures on that account for a few days.
• If an account is resting, let it rest. Checking it again repeatedly keeps it under pressure.

Keep your session clean

• Don't share your li_at cookie with anyone or paste it anywhere else.
• Changing your LinkedIn password or signing out everywhere ends filtrat's session. That's expected: just reconnect.

What doesn't use LinkedIn

Email verification, the email finder (including lookups from a LinkedIn profile URL), domain reports and email patterns never use your connected account and never count toward its cap.