Scraping limits to protect your accounts from bans

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Many users ask whether lobstr.io scrapers can get their accounts banned. The short answer: no. lobstr.io has built-in hard limits for certain scrapers and imposes usage safeguards across the board — not to slow you down, but to keep your accounts alive and scraping safely for the long haul. These limits apply mainly to scrapers that require account synchronization. You can sync 4 types of accounts with lobstr.io:

• Sales Navigator
• Leboncoin
• X (formerly Twitter)
• Facebook

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How many leads can you scrape per day from Sales Navigator?

Sales Navigator shows 100 pages of 25 profiles. Each page counts as 1 search. LinkedIn allows 6,000 searches per month — i.e. 200 searches per day. That’s why the Sales Navigator Leads Scraper can do a maximum of 200 searches per day. You can collect up to 5,000 leads per day from a single Sales Navigator account and safely reach 100% of this capacity without worrying about bans. If you’re using the same Sales Navigator account on another tool, reduce lobstr.io’s daily lead limit to avoid hitting the cap. Go to Accounts → Actions → Edit limits. Make sure the other tool also respects LinkedIn’s daily limits. If both tools combined exceed the allowed limit, your account could get banned.

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What are the limits of a Leboncoin account?

lobstr.io offers 2 types of Leboncoin automations:

1. Scraping listings data
2. Automated messages

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Listings

There are no hard limits on scraping listings data. You don’t even need to sync your Leboncoin account to use Leboncoin Listings Search Export. But lobstr.io adds calculated pauses in the Listings and Phone Search Export to mimic human browsing:

• ~1 minute per 35 listings
• ~1 minute per phone number

This slows things down slightly but keeps your Leboncoin account safe.

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Messaging

There is a hard limit on sending messages. Two types of limits apply to the Leboncoin Auto Message Sender:

• Batch limit — up to 8 messages per batch, with a 2-hour cooldown between batches.
• Daily limit — 30 messages per 24-hour cycle, anchored to the first message of the cycle. When you send your first message, lobstr.io records its timestamp as the cycle’s start time. Every subsequent message increments the counter, but the start time stays fixed. If you hit 30 before the 24-hour mark, the account is locked until 24 hours after that first message — not 24 hours after the most recent one. Once the 24h pass, the counter resets to zero and the next message you send starts a fresh cycle with its own start time.

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Example timeline

To check how many messages an account has sent in the current cycle:

1. Go to Accounts in the left sidebar.
2. Click Actions next to the account.
3. Select Account usage.

A pop-up opens with two sections:

• Messages — the account’s daily limit, messages used in the current cycle, and messages still available.
• Run History — every recent run that used this account, with how many messages each one sent and when. This is where you can see the per-account (not per-run) behavior at work: every send from any run counts toward the same cycle counter.

If you use the same account on another service, edit these limits from Accounts → Actions → Edit limits.

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What are X (Twitter) data scraping limits?

There’s no hard limit on scraping X posts or profiles. You won’t see an Edit limits option when you sync your X account. However, X itself enforces rate limits and may respond with a “Too Many Requests” error when it detects high activity. lobstr.io automatically pauses the scraper for 1 hour whenever this error is detected, to avoid triggering platform-level blocks or temporary bans.

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What are the limits on scraping Facebook pages?

Similar to X, there’s no hard limit on Facebook Pages Search Export. To keep your Facebook account safe, lobstr.io adds small pauses during scraping — e.g. a few seconds between each page collected from search results. This avoids triggering Facebook’s security systems.

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How many accounts can you sync with lobstr.io?

Very common question. You can sync as many accounts as you want. lobstr.io doesn’t limit the number of accounts you can connect. Here’s the guide to sync multiple accounts. But there’s a limit on how many accounts you can use at the same time: your plan includes a set number of slots, and you can sync only 1 account per slot. Current slot allowances: Starter = 2, Pro = 10, Team = 50. So on a Team plan you can have 50 active slots — 50 accounts at once. Learn more: how slots are calculated.