When you first sign up to Octolens and choose keywords during onboarding, we go as far back as 7 days and find up to 100 posts per platform.For any new keywords you add after onboarding, we also go as far back as 7 days and find up to 10 posts per platform.
| Data Source | What we monitor | Search intervals |
|---|---|---|
| X/Twitter | Keyword mentioned in tweet or comment | Depends on plan (Pro: hourly, Scale: under 5 minutes). No retweets. English tweets only. |
| Keyword mentioned in post title, post body, and comments | Real time | |
| Hacker News | Keyword mentioned in post and comments | Depends on plan (Pro: hourly, Scale: under 5 minutes) |
| Keyword mentioned in public posts + your own brand-tagged mentions (via OAuth, set up in the platform page) | Depends on plan (Pro: hourly, Scale: under 5 minutes) | |
| YouTube | Keyword mentioned in video title or description | Depends on plan (Pro: hourly, Scale: under 5 minutes) |
| Bluesky | Keyword mentioned in post or comment | Real time |
| TikTok | Keyword mentioned in video description | Depends on plan (Pro: hourly, Scale: under 5 minutes) |
| GitHub | Keyword mentioned in GitHub issues | Depends on plan (Pro: hourly, Scale: under 5 minutes) |
| Stack Overflow | Keyword mentioned in post title and body | Runs once per day |
| DEV | Keyword mentioned in heading and description | Depends on plan (Pro: hourly, Scale: under 5 minutes) |
| Podcasts (Scale only) | Brand mentioned in transcript | Real time |
| News (Scale only) | Keyword mentioned in news publications (+150,000 sources) | Runs every 6 hours |
| Web (Scale only) | Keyword mentioned on indexed pages across the open web. Real time once a page is indexed, English only by default, and pages must have a Domain Rating of 30 or higher unless changed in Global keyword settings. | Real time once indexed |
| Newsletters (Scale only) | Keywords mentioned in subject and body of newsletter | Real time |
We are working on adding more data sources. Write us in our in-app chat or at hi@octolens.com if you have requests.