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Platform coverage
What Sonder APIs return on each platform, and why some data is limited.
Green is live. An open ring is limited: the data exists, with a catch named below. A dash means the platform's public data doesn't support it, or Sonder doesn't offer it yet.
| Data | TikTok | YouTube | X | Threads | Snapchat | |||
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| Profiles | ||||||||
| Posts and stats | ||||||||
| Keyword search | ||||||||
| Hashtag search | ||||||||
| Sound search | ||||||||
| Comments | ||||||||
| Transcripts | ||||||||
| On-screen text | ||||||||
| Media files | ||||||||
| Audience (estimated) | ||||||||
| Trends | ||||||||
| Footage matching |
Live Limited (see the platform page) Not available
What each row means
| Data | What you get |
|---|---|
| Profiles | A public account's name, followers and, where the platform shows them, bio and verified status. |
| Posts and stats | Each public post with its caption, date, length, views, likes, comments and shares. |
| Keyword search | Public posts that match a word or phrase, in a date window. |
| Hashtag search | Public posts under a hashtag. |
| Sound search | Public videos that use a sound or song. |
| Comments | The public comments under a post, with likes and replies. |
| Transcripts | The words spoken in a video, from the platform's captions or speech-to-text. |
| On-screen text | Text written on the video or its cover: titles, captions burned in, show names. |
| Media files | The video or audio file of a public post, for your own analysis. |
| Audience (estimated) | Estimated age, gender and country of the people commenting. |
| Trends | Formats many creators are adopting, with their stage: just starting, rising, at its peak, cooling off, back again. |
| Footage matching | Clips matched to the exact moment of your own long-form video they came from. |
Limited, and why
TikTok
Everything above is live on TikTok. TikTok details.
- Posts and stats: Reels carry play counts; some older Reels and photo posts have no view count (returned as null, never 0).
- Keyword search: Instagram has no open keyword search: results come from popular and indexed public Reels, so niche terms can return few posts.
- Hashtag search: Popular public posts under the hashtag, not the full archive.
- Sound search: The first page of Reels that use the sound.
- Comments: The top comments on each post (about a dozen); full threads are not guaranteed.
- Transcripts: Speech-to-text on Reels with 20,000 views or more.
- Instagram details
YouTube
- Sound search: Shorts sounds, inside trend data only.
- YouTube details
- Hashtag search: Hashtags are searched as text.
- On-screen text: Read from the post's cover image only.
- Audience (estimated): Estimated from commenters' names and comment text only; no profile lookups.
- Facebook details
X
- Profiles: Followers come with each post; there is no standalone profile lookup.
- Hashtag search: Hashtags are searched as text.
- Comments: Replies are best effort and can be incomplete.
- On-screen text: Read from the post's cover image only.
- Audience (estimated): Estimated from commenters' names and comment text only; no profile lookups.
- X details
Threads
- Posts and stats: Likes, replies and reposts; Threads does not publish view counts.
- Keyword search: The top and most recent posts for a query (about a hundred); no deep paging.
- Hashtag search: The top and most recent posts under the tag; no deep paging.
- On-screen text: Read from the post's cover image only.
- Audience (estimated): Estimated from commenters' names and comment text only; no profile lookups.
- Threads details
- Posts and stats: Score and comment count; Reddit does not publish views.
- On-screen text: Read from the post's cover image only.
- Audience (estimated): Estimated from commenters' names and comment text only; no profile lookups.
- Reddit details
Snapchat
- Profiles: A public profile's posts and follower count; no bio.
- Posts and stats: Spotlights carry views and shares; stories and highlights have no public view counts.
- Sound search: Give a Spotlight that uses the sound; there is no sound page to search.
- Comments: Spotlights only.
- Transcripts: Spotlights only.
- On-screen text: Read from the post's cover image only.
- Audience (estimated): Estimated from commenters' names and comment text only; no profile lookups.
- Footage matching: Matched by what is said in the clip only.
- Snapchat details
Not covered
LinkedIn, Bluesky, Pinterest, Twitch and Kick are not covered today. Tell us on the access form if you need them.