How many prospects you can safely collect from LinkedIn

In this article, you'll learn how to keep your LinkedIn account safe while you collect leads and run outreach with Snov.io.

This guide shows how many prospects you can safely collect from LinkedIn with Snov.io, and how to plan your volume so your account stays safe.

LinkedIn sets daily limits on activities such as profile views, connection requests, and messages. These limits apply to your LinkedIn account, whichever tool you use on it. Snov.io has three ways to work with LinkedIn, and each one adds to the activity on your account: LI Prospect Finder collects leads from the pages you browse, LinkedIn Search finds leads from your Snov.io account, and LinkedIn Automation runs outreach.

Safe daily limits for each tool
How to use Snov.io with LinkedIn safely
What to do if you reach a limit
Next steps

Safe daily limits for each tool

Lead and data collection with LI Prospect Finder

Each prospect you save counts as a LinkedIn profile view. To stay safe, keep your daily total below these approximate limits:

These limits are approximate and depend on the age of your LinkedIn account and its SSI score.

Using LinkedIn Search to save leads

LinkedIn Search finds prospects by filters or by a search URL through the LinkedIn account you connect to Snov.io. The recommended limit is up to 500 leads per day, and only for Premium and Sales Navigator accounts. It uses the same LinkedIn account, so its activity adds up with LI Prospect Finder and LinkedIn Automation. For details, see this guide.

Outreach with LinkedIn Automation

LinkedIn Automation sends profile visits, post likes, endorsements, connection requests, and messages. Its limits depend on your SSI score. The default limit is 20 actions per day for each action type, and the highest recommended limit is 40. For the full table by SSI score, see this guide.

How to use Snov.io with LinkedIn safely

Plan your collection volume

Multiply the number of pages by the number of prospects per page. Free and Premium search results show 10 prospects per page, and Sales Navigator shows 25. For example, scanning 20 pages in Sales Navigator collects up to 500 prospects.

To set the range, click Multipage in the sidebar and choose the first and last page under Pages to scan. Under Delay between profiles, set a range in seconds. The extension waits a random time within that range before it opens each profile. The panel shows the estimated time for your search.

The extension does not stop saving when you reach your daily limit, so choose a page range that keeps your total below it.

Collect and run outreach on different days

Profile views from LI Prospect Finder, LinkedIn Search, and LinkedIn Automation add up on the same LinkedIn account. If you connect the same account to these tools, it is better not to collect leads and run outreach on the same day.

The LI Prospect Finder warning counts only the profiles you view with the extension, not the views from LinkedIn Search or LinkedIn Automation.

For example, collect and save prospects on Monday and Tuesday, then start the outreach sequence on Wednesday.

If you connect two LinkedIn accounts to Snov.io, one for collecting and one for outreach, each account has its own limits.

What to do if you reach a limit

LI Prospect Finder warns you before you go over the safe limit. On a free LinkedIn account, the warning appears at 135 profile views, and the recommended maximum is 150. Premium and Sales Navigator accounts get an alert when they approach their limit.

The warning says your account may be blocked if you continue. You can click Continue anyway, but it is safer to stop.

To stop a search that is already running, click Stop next to the search under Search history in the sidebar. Prospects already collected stay in your list. If you stop the search right after it starts, it may be cancelled entirely.

After you stop:

• Stop collecting prospects for the rest of the day
• Continue the next day with a lower daily volume
• Increase the volume gradually if your account shows no warnings

If you see a warning about automated activity from LinkedIn itself, not from Snov.io, it is safer to stop all activities on that account. Continue after 2 to 3 days with lower volumes. For recommended limits, see this guide.

Next steps

Once you save prospects with the extension, you can:

• Get more data: use Enrichment tools to find phone numbers, research prospects on the web in bulk, and add more personal and company insights to the default data, then use it all to generate outreach copy
• Start outreach: contact prospects with LinkedIn Automation, email campaigns, or multichannel sequences