diff --git a/src/app.py b/src/app.py
index d8747b9..2272ee0 100644
--- a/src/app.py
+++ b/src/app.py
@@ -285,7 +285,8 @@ def get_user_threads(self):
         if not user_info:
             self.threads = 1
         else:
-            self.threads = min(self.threads, user_info.get("maxthreads"))
+            self.threads = min(self.threads, int(user_info["response"]["ssuser"]["maxthreads"]))
+        logger.log_info(f"number of threads: {self.threads}")
 
     def scrape(self, rom, system_id):
         scraped_box = scraped_preview = scraped_synopsis = None