Live Mode: Safe Practices

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Rules of thumb

• Spread actions over time — never fire everything at once.
• Invitations — respect a daily cap and space each attempt by tens of seconds to minutes, with randomized gaps.
• Profile visits — distribute across the day; delay between each live call.
• Search / pagination — always wait between each page (each follow-up request using X-Pagination-Next or the next cursor).
• No parallel live calls for the same identity on risky outreach—keep the pipeline sequential (one in flight, then the next).
• Random + jitter — add variability to every delay so intervals are not perfectly periodic.

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Cold Account

1. Days 1–2 — Keep volume very low (a handful of benign actions if you must: light reads, spaced visits, minimal outreach). Use generous gaps between calls—often longer than the suggested minimum spacing table—and no parallelism for the same identity.
2. Days 3–5 — Gradually increase daily call count and breadth (more pages, more profiles), still with jitter and sequential execution. If you see 429, checkpoints, or unusual friction, slow down and extend the ramp.
3. After ~a week of stable, human-like patterns — You can approach your intended steady-state spacing and volume, still respecting daily caps, invitation limits, and the Rules of thumb guidance above.

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Suggested minimum spacing (live)

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Simple Safe pattern: sleep + jitter (JavaScript)

const sleep = (ms) => new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, ms));

/** baseMs = minimum gap; adds 0..jitterMaxMs random extra */
async function waitBetweenLiveCalls(baseMs, jitterMaxMs = 15_000) {
  const jitter = Math.floor(Math.random() * (jitterMaxMs + 1));
  await sleep(baseMs + jitter);
}

// Example: linkedin-visit-profile — ~30s base, up to +15s jitter
await fetch("https://api.edges.run/v1/actions/linkedin-visit-profile/run/live", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "X-API-Key": process.env.EDGES_API_KEY,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({ /* inputs, identity_mode, … */ }),
});
await waitBetweenLiveCalls(30_000);
// next live call…

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The quotas still apply

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