Data Refresh & Limits
Flux automatically keeps your LinkedIn post data up to date without any manual syncing.
How it works
Your posts are refreshed by two background jobs:
Daily refresh (nightly scrape) — runs every 20 hours per profile. It fetches your most recent posts (roughly the last 30 days) and updates engagement metrics — likes, comments, reposts — on anything that has moved since the last pull. This runs on Pulse and Edge plans.
Weekly deep pull (autopilot) — runs every Monday at 6 AM UTC. It fetches up to 250 posts per profile (5 pages of ~50 posts each) to catch anything the daily refresh may have missed and reconcile post IDs. This also runs on Pulse and Edge plans.
Initial backfill
When you connect your profile, Flux fetches your full post history — up to approximately one year of posts depending on your posting cadence. There is no hard time cap; the backfill goes as deep as the data source allows. You don't need to do anything to trigger this; it happens automatically after signup.
Key details
- Refresh cadence: posts and engagement counts update every ~20 hours per profile
- Backfill depth: roughly 1 year of historical posts on initial connect; no manual re-import needed
- Weekly deep pull: every Monday, Flux re-fetches up to 250 recent posts to catch ID changes and new posts
- Failing profiles: if a refresh attempt fails, Flux retries after 2 hours rather than hammering every window; persistent failures alert the team
- No manual refresh button: data updates happen automatically on schedule
Multi-profile tracking
If you track additional profiles (Edge plan), each monitored profile follows the same 20-hour refresh cycle. Profiles are processed serially to avoid database contention, so large fleets spread across windows throughout the day.
See Multi-Profile Tracking for how to add profiles.
Tips
- Engagement metrics on older posts (likes, comments) also update on each refresh — not just new posts. If a post goes viral days after publishing, Flux will catch it.
- The weekly deep pull on Mondays is a good reason to check your dashboard early in the week; it may surface posts you hadn't seen in your recent feed.
- Export captures all historical data Flux has stored, not just the last 30 days. See Export for details.