Scan Cadence & Manual Scans

Hardware Hunter does the refreshing on a schedule. Here's the cadence, what a scan does, and what you can trigger yourself.

How often scans run

• Free tier: every 24 hours.
• Pro and Lifetime: every 2 hours.

A hunt's scan cadence is fixed to your tier — you can't set a custom interval. Upgrade to Pro for the faster cadence.

What a scan does

Each scan pulls listings from the live sources (see what's live), removes duplicates, and evaluates only the listings you haven't seen before. New matches get scored and land in your results feed; the ones that clear your bar become alerts.

Because only new listings are evaluated, you won't get the same alert twice — a listing you've already seen is tracked by ID and skipped in future scans.

Manual scans

You can request a scan of a specific hunt on demand. A few things to know, stated plainly:

• A manual scan request only records the request — it doesn't run providers immediately. Results land on the next scheduled scan cycle (daily on Free, every 2 hours on paid). Don't expect results in the next minute.
• Free tier: one manual scan per hunt per day. Paid plans: unlimited.
• The hunt must be active. A paused hunt won't take a manual scan request.

There's no "scan now" button in the UI — manual scans are triggered from the API. If you're on the free tier and need more frequent coverage, the honest answer is that upgrading to Pro is what buys the 2-hour cadence.