Radarly is a keyword-based social listening tool. In the listening section of your project, Radarly collects posts according to queries set with operators.

In Radarly, there are two types:
- basic operators: OR, AND, NOT
- complex operators allowing to go further in the structuring of your queries

This article will cover:

Basic Operators
Complex Operators
Boolean Operators by Social and Web Platforms

Basic Operators

The Quotation Marks

Use quotation marks to search for complete expression

"sporting goods"

Radarly will capture only posts containing the complete phrase "sporting goods", instead of searching for only "sporting" or "goods".

OR	Use the OR operator to search for different terms	EX: linkfluence OR "social media intelligence"	Two sets linked by OR add up linkfluence OR "social media intelligence" will report all posts containing linkfluence as well as all posts containing "social media intelligence"
AND	Use the AND operator to associate multiple search terms	EX: (linkfluence OR "social media intelligence") AND (acquisition OR "raising funds")	Radarly will display all posts containing linkfluence or "social media intelligence" provided that these posts also contain acquisition OR "raising funds"
NOT	Use the NOT to exclude certain terms from your search	EX: nike NOT (football)	Radarly will pick up the posts that contain the word Nike and exclude the results that contain the term football

Note: Expressions or compound words must be written between symbols " " and “ ” or « » are invalid. So we have to look for "president Barack Obama" rather than «president Barack Obama».

The maximum length of a search is 1000 characters.
Operators must be written in capital letters!

Use of Parentheses:

Parentheses allow you to create precedence rules between your keywords.

If you write	Radarly will display ...	... But will not display
(strawberry AND tagada) OR (haribo AND crocodiles)	+ The crocodiles are my favorite Haribo candies + The strawberry tagada is my favorite Haribo candy	+ My Kids love the strawberry candies, especially the tagadas + I like the crocodiles and the tagada
(("San Antonio" OR Sanantonio) AND (Spurs)) NOT (basketball)	+ The win of San Antonio Spurs! + San Antonio's team of Spurs is a great team of basket ball	+ Basketball: the win of San Antonio Spurs! + Watching the Spurs #sanantonio #basketball

Complex Operators

With complex operators, specify your queries even more:

raw:

This operator allows looking for:

Keywords with diacritics (raw:"phô mai")
The & and / symbols but only between two words without space (raw:"h&m")
The currency symbols (€, $, £, etc.)

rawer:

This operator is the same thanraw:but case sensitive.

rawer:Apple

NEAR/

NEAR/ is used similarly to AND

The operator NEAR/ allows to set a maximum number of words between two words, groups of words or expression. This operator works from left to right and vice versa.

(linkfluence OR radarly) NEAR/15 (software AND analyze)

Radarly will retrieve posts where both linkfluence and radarly are present in a maximum distance of 15 terms of software and analyze

Note:

NEAR/ operator cannot be combined with another NEAR/. Example: (meltwater NEAR/X (radarly)) NEAR/X ("social media")

author:@screenname

Searches posts by author's username only for Instagram, Twitter, Chinese Social accounts.

author:name

Searches posts by author name only for Facebook, Twitter, Chinese Social accounts.

site:

This operator allows you to collect all posts on a website.

site:lemonde.fr

Boolean Operators by Social and Web Platforms

Facebook

user.name:name

This operator allows you to search for publications from a Facebook account. The name refers to the account name, not the ID or @. .
Example : user.name:"Benefit Cosmetics" or user.name:"Burger King"

facebook.in-reply-to-status-id:

This operator allows you to capture all the posts and comments on a Facebook fan page, except answers to comments.

facebook.to-fb-page:

This operator collects all comments on a Facebook page, from the page owner and fans, except for replies to comments.

user.facebook.id:

To capture Facebook page own posts.

facebook.id:

To capture a Facebook post.

Instagram

instagram.id:

To capture a specific Instagram post.

_exists_:instagram.in-reply-to-status-id

To display Instagram comment.

X (formerly Twitter)

twitter.id:

To capture a specific tweet.

twitter.mentions.id:

To capture tweets mentioning an account.

twitter.in-reply-to-status-id

To display tweet in reply to another tweet.

Web/Blog/Forum

title:

Search in the title of an article.

Discord

url.reversed:com.discord\/channels\/id-of-your-server\/id-of-your-channel\/*

To capture posts from a specific channel

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