Introduction
Automation isn't always precise. Before you start automating, make sure your account is regularly active on the platform. For new accounts, take it easy at first, doing fewer actions. Also, when automating, be careful not to rush. Avoid launching many jobs in a short time. Space them out based on the inputs and outputs you're handling. *Especially with Search automations, there's no strict limit, but spacing them out is essential to prevent Rate Limits.
And, no need to worry! For most automations with commercial limits, we've got you covered with our Smart Limits: how to avoid getting banned on social accounts. (Forget about the PhantomBuster mindset; we take care of everything for you. Your role is simply to scale.)
Check out this article for more informaiton: Smart Limits: how to avoid getting banned on social accounts
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⚠️ If you have any restriction from LinkedIn: Make sure the “country” selected on your user (here > Edit User > Country) match the location where you are when you log into your social media account to avoid any restrictions.
Exercise caution when using a VPN. Either choose the exact same country where your VPN provides IPs to ensure a match, or log out from your VPN when logging into your Social Media Account.
Commercial Limitations
You will find below some usage limitations that you need to respect.
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🐥 for new accounts
🎓 for Classic accounts
👑 for Sales Navigator accounts
Maximum number of searches in a month on LinkedIn - To be redefined soon
🐥 30: you get 30 (search) * 1000 (people) = ~30k people
🎓 300: you get 300 * 1000 = ~300k people
👑 Unlimited!
Maximum number of searches results (pages) per day
🐥🎓 👑 - To be redefined soon
Maximum number of Searches Sales Navigator Employees per day
👑 Approximately 100 companies to search for employees within, more or less. There's no exact limit, but if you see a 'max limit reached' error, it's likely because you've hit your daily search quota. In that case, just wait 24 hours before trying again.
Tip: Always try to space out your jobs as much as possible to avoid hitting limits.
Maximum number of messages per day
🐥 25
🎓 50
👑 250
Maximum number of connection requests per day
🐥 10
🎓 25
👑 30
Maximum number of profile visits* per day
🐥 10
🎓 50
👑 500
*Don't forget that your manual account visits also count.
Maximum number of enrichment requests per day
🐥🎓👑 3000 people AND companies enrichment per day (per batch of 1000)
Maximum number of connections extraction per day
🐥🎓👑 once a day (up to 30K connections)
Maximum number of connections you can have
30 000 (though you still be able to accept invites)
Maximum number of pending connection requests you can have
1 200 (beyond this, connection requests will not be sent)
Smart Account Limits
Since January 2021 ( release note), you can launch workflows without thinking about the limitations, since we automatically and natively apply limits depending on your account.
Head over to the Integrations Tab and click on LinkedIn👇Click on edit limits 👇
We automatically detect the type of account you're using: Classic or Sales Navigator.
If you are using a Sales Navigator account and want to visit people profiles, you will be limited to 500 visits a day.
Captain Data will automatically apply the limits and visit 250 profiles every hour to reach the 500 visits limit.
If you already reached the limit for the current day, it will continue again the day after until you have visited all the profiles from your search.
💡 As highlighted in red, we highly recommend to not change the values except if you know exactly what you are doing.
Accounts Usage
Since July 2021 you can even check accounts usage over the last day, the current day and the next 7 days!
Head over to the Limits tab when selecting a user: