How Crawlbench search and scheduled checks actually work
Crawlbench runs scheduled Marketplace checks on your active monitors. Fan-out lands about every 10 minutes. Your cities rotate by city-slot budget, so a given metro is not promised on every cycle.
That is detection on a schedule, not a live Facebook ticker.
What "search" means here
A monitor is a saved buy box: category, coverage, filters, and alert prefs. Crawlbench checks Marketplace for listings that fit, then the match gate decides what enters your queue.
Facebook's own saved searches and notification timing vary by account and day. Crawlbench does not claim Facebook's SLA. It runs its own scheduled checks and filters.
Cadence vs city rotation
Paid plans use a ~10-minute scan cadence. Multi-city and all-cities monitors share city slots. Coverage rotates across anchors so the desk stays sustainable.
If you need every ZIP every minute, you are asking for a different product shape. If you need steady catches on a tight buy box, scheduled checks are the point.
Coverage on the dashboard
Dashboard coverage answers "am I missing scans?" Healthy means recent check waves are landing for the monitor. Catching up means the platform is behind. It is not a prompt to rewrite filters every quiet hour.
Trend on a card is match volume. Flat or down can mean a quiet market.
Where cadence shows up on pricing
Plan cards and the compare table list scan cadence with monitors, city slots, and fetches. Cadence is the same ~10-minute class across paid tiers. Volume caps are what change.
Practical rules
- Activate one tight monitor before you widen cities
- Treat alerts as batched results of scheduled checks
- Fix coverage issues before you blame the buy box
- Message sellers on Facebook yourself