---
title: "Platform coverage"
description: "What Sonder APIs return on each platform, and why some data is limited."
url: https://docs.sonderlabs.co.uk/coverage
---

# 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 | Instagram | YouTube | Facebook | X | Threads | Reddit | Snapchat |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Profiles | Live | Live | Live | Live | Limited | — | — | Limited |
| Posts and stats | Live | Limited | Live | Live | Live | Limited | Limited | Limited |
| Keyword search | Live | Limited | Live | Live | Live | Limited | Live | Live |
| Hashtag search | Live | Limited | Live | Limited | Limited | Limited | — | Live |
| Sound search | Live | Limited | Limited | — | — | — | — | Limited |
| Comments | Live | Limited | Live | Live | Limited | Live | Live | Limited |
| Transcripts | Live | Limited | Live | — | — | — | — | Limited |
| On-screen text | Live | Live | Live | Limited | Limited | Limited | Limited | Limited |
| Media files | Live | Live | Live | — | — | — | — | — |
| Audience (estimated) | Live | Live | Live | Limited | Limited | Limited | Limited | Limited |
| Trends | Live | Live | Live | — | — | — | — | — |
| Footage matching | Live | Live | Live | — | — | — | — | Limited |

## 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](https://docs.sonderlabs.co.uk/platforms/tiktok).

### Instagram

- **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](https://docs.sonderlabs.co.uk/platforms/instagram)

### YouTube

- **Sound search:** Shorts sounds, inside trend data only.
- [YouTube details](https://docs.sonderlabs.co.uk/platforms/youtube)

### Facebook

- **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](https://docs.sonderlabs.co.uk/platforms/facebook)

### 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](https://docs.sonderlabs.co.uk/platforms/x)

### 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](https://docs.sonderlabs.co.uk/platforms/threads)

### Reddit

- **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](https://docs.sonderlabs.co.uk/platforms/reddit)

### 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](https://docs.sonderlabs.co.uk/platforms/snapchat)

## Not covered

LinkedIn, Bluesky, Pinterest, Twitch and Kick are not covered today. Tell us on the [access form](https://docs.sonderlabs.co.uk/access) if you need them.