✨Tracked platforms

Overview of the platforms and other data sources Octolens monitors for your keywords

When you first sign up to Octolens and choose keywords during the onboarding process, we go as far back as 7-days in your chosen platforms 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 in your chosen platform and find up to 10 posts per platform.

Data Source	What we monitor	Search intervals
X/Twitter	Keyword mentioned in tweet or comment	Runs every hour, fetches max 60 results per run, No retweets, only English tweets
Reddit	Keyword mentioned in post header, post body, post comments	Runs every minute, fetches max 50 posts per keyword per minute
Bluesky	Keyword mentioned in post or comment	Runs every minute
LinkedIn	Keyword mentioned in post	Runs 1 time per day, fetches max 50 posts per keyword per day
Hacker News	Keyword mentioned in post and comment on post	Runs every hour, fetches max 1,000 results per run per hour
GitHub	Keyword mentioned in GitHub issues	Runs every hour, fetches max 1,000 results per run
DEV.to	Keyword mentioned in heading and description	Runs every 5 minutes
YouTube	Keyword mentioned in video title or description	Runs every hour, fetches max 150 results per keyword per hour
Stack Overflow	Keyword mentioned in title of post and body	Runs 1 time per day
Newsletters	Keywords mentioned in subject and body of newsletter	Runs every minute. See all tracked newsletters here and request more.

We are working on adding more data sources! Please write us in our in-app chat or at [e-mail] if you have specific requests.