# News

## Filters common accross all platforms

<table><thead><tr><th width="236.21875">Filter</th><th width="233.5859375">Usage</th><th>Example</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>keyword</strong></td><td>Focuses on all articles containing the keyword</td><td><p><strong>car</strong> </p><p></p><p>Focuses on all articles containing the keyword "car"</p></td></tr><tr><td><strong>"exact expression"</strong></td><td>Focuses on all articles containing the exact phrase, i.e., all words in the phrase in this precise order</td><td><p><strong>"blue car"</strong> </p><p></p><p>Focuses on all articles containing the exact phrase "blue car"". Does NOT search for content like "blue automobile" or "yellow car"</p></td></tr><tr><td><strong>lang:</strong></td><td><p>Considers only articles in a specific language. xx = language abbreviation. Main languages: fr = French, en = English, es = Spanish, ja = Japanese. </p><p><a href="/users/57c74e0db97f6310002c0956">See list of 64 available languages</a></p></td><td><p><strong>lang:</strong>en</p><p></p><p>Focuses on all English-language articles</p></td></tr><tr><td><strong>contains: / full_contains:</strong></td><td>Focuses on articles containing a sequence of characters. Filter is not case or accent sensitive</td><td><p><strong>contains:</strong>treat</p><p></p><p>Focuses on all content like treats, treatment, treated, but also mistreat, mistreating, etc.</p></td></tr><tr><td><strong>!contains: / !full_contains:</strong></td><td>Focuses on a sequence of characters while being case-sensitive</td><td><p><strong>!contains:</strong>Innov</p><p></p><p>Focuses on all publications containing "Innov" but sensitive to case and accent (I uppercase, é accented). Useful for proper names, e.g., your brand name</p></td></tr><tr><td><strong>emoji:</strong></td><td>Focuses on publications containing a specific emoji</td><td><p><strong>emoji:</strong>joy </p><p></p><p>Focuses on all publications containing the emoji 😂</p></td></tr><tr><td><strong>has_emoji: (true/false)</strong></td><td>Focuses on publications containing one or more emojisFocuses on publications containing one or more emojis</td><td><p><strong>has_emoji:</strong>true </p><p></p><p>Focuses on all publications containing at least one emoji</p></td></tr><tr><td><strong>sentiment:</strong> (neutral / positive / negative)</td><td>Sorts articles based on identified sentiment</td><td><p><strong>sentiment:</strong>negative </p><p></p><p>Isolates all articles identified as negative</p></td></tr><tr><td><strong>proximity:</strong></td><td>Defines a maximum distance between multiple keywords</td><td><p><strong>proximity:</strong>"apple samsung"~4</p><p></p><p>Focuses on articles containing "Apple" and "Samsung" within 4 words</p></td></tr><tr><td><strong>!proximity:</strong></td><td>Defines a maximum distance between multiple keywords while respecting case</td><td><p>!proximity:"Airbus failure"~4</p><p></p><p>Focuses on publications containing "failure" and "Airbus" within 4 words, keeping "Airbus" capitalized</p></td></tr><tr><td><strong>char_count:</strong><br>(&#x3C;/>/=)</td><td>Filter posts by the number of characters in a post.</td><td><strong>char_count:</strong>&#x3C;50<br>Filters posts with fewer than 50 characters.</td></tr></tbody></table>

## Filters on the transmitters

<table><thead><tr><th width="236.21875">Filter</th><th width="233.5859375">Usage</th><th>Example</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>from: / website_url:</strong></td><td>Allows filtering articles published by a specific media outlet</td><td><p><strong>from:</strong>"https://www.huffpost.com/"</p><p></p><p>Identifies all articles published by the Huffington's post</p></td></tr><tr><td><strong>from_contains: / website_url_contains:</strong></td><td>Isolates articles published by media groups whose account name contains specific character sequences</td><td><p><strong>from_contains:</strong>MSN </p><p></p><p>Identifies articles published by MSN, MSN France, MSN Belgium, MSN Québec, etc.</p></td></tr><tr><td><strong>site_name_contains:</strong></td><td>Isolates articles published by media whose account name contains specific character sequences</td><td><p><strong>site_name_contains:</strong>yahoo</p><p></p><p>Identifies articles published by media whose name includes Yahoo</p></td></tr><tr><td><strong>!site_name_contains:</strong></td><td>Isolates articles published by media whose account name contains specific characters, while being case-sensitive</td><td><p><strong>!site_name_contains:</strong>Sky</p><p></p><p>Identifies articles from media whose name contains "Sky" with an uppercase “S”</p></td></tr><tr><td><strong>author:</strong></td><td>Filters articles written by a specific author</td><td><p><strong>author:</strong>"Josselin Tallec"</p><p></p><p>Identifies articles written by Josselin Tallec</p></td></tr><tr><td><strong>author_contains:</strong></td><td>Filters articles written by authors whose name contains specific character sequences</td><td><p><strong>author_contains:</strong>smith</p><p></p><p>Identifies articles written by journalists whose name contains "smith"</p></td></tr><tr><td><strong>!author_contains:</strong></td><td>Filters articles written by authors whose name contains specific characters, case-sensitive</td><td><p><strong>!author_contains:</strong>Franck </p><p></p><p>Identifies articles written by journalists whose name contains "Franck" with an uppercase “F”</p></td></tr><tr><td><strong>domain:</strong></td><td>Isolates all articles coming from a specific website</td><td><p><strong>domain:</strong>mediapart</p><p></p><p>Filters articles from Mediapart</p></td></tr><tr><td><strong>domain_contains:</strong></td><td>Isolates articles from websites whose domain name contains specific characters</td><td><p><strong>domain_contains:</strong>blog </p><p></p><p>Filters links from websites whose domain includes "blog"</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>type:</strong></p><p><strong>(news/blog)</strong></p></td><td>Isolates press or blog articles</td><td><p>type:blog</p><p></p><p>Isolates articles from blog-type media</p></td></tr><tr><td><strong>country:</strong></td><td>Filters articles published by media from a specific country</td><td><p><strong>country:</strong>fr </p><p>Filters articles from French media</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>views:</strong></p><p><strong>(> / &#x3C; / =)</strong></p></td><td>Sorts articles based on a threshold of generated views</td><td><p><strong>views:</strong>&#x3C;500000</p><p></p><p>Filters articles that generated more than 500,000 views</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>audience:</strong></p><p><strong>(> / &#x3C; / =)</strong></p></td><td>Sorts articles by the audience level of the publishing media</td><td><p><strong>audience:</strong>&#x3C;30000</p><p></p><p>Filters media with an audience greater than 30,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>has_authors:</strong></p><p><strong>(true/false)</strong></p></td><td>Isolates articles without listed authors</td><td><p><strong>has_authors:</strong>false</p><p></p><p>Filters articles with no author specified</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>monthly_visits_count:</strong></p><p><strong>(> / &#x3C; / =)</strong></p></td><td>Sorts websites based on their monthly visit count</td><td><p><strong>monthly_visits_count:</strong>>100000 </p><p></p><p>Filters media generating at least 100,000 monthly visits</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

## Filters on content

<table><thead><tr><th width="236.21875">Filter</th><th width="233.5859375">Usage</th><th>Example</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>word_count: (&#x3C;/>/=)</strong></td><td>Filters publications based on the number of keywords</td><td><p><strong>word_count</strong>:&#x3C;5 </p><p></p><p>Filters publications with fewer than 5 keywords</p></td></tr><tr><td><strong>title_contains:</strong></td><td>Isolates articles whose title includes specific characters</td><td><p><strong>link_title_contains</strong>:car </p><p></p><p>Filters articles whose title contains "car" (car, cars, carnivore, carnival etc...)</p></td></tr><tr><td><strong>!title_contains:</strong></td><td>Isolates articles whose title includes specific characters, case-sensitive</td><td><p><strong>!link_title_contains:</strong>Macy's</p><p></p><p>Filters articles mentioning "Macy's" (brand), excluding the name</p></td></tr><tr><td><strong>summary_contains:</strong></td><td>Isolates articles whose summary includes specific characters</td><td><p><strong>summary_contains:protest</strong></p><p></p><p>Filters articles whose summary includes "protest" (protests, protesting, etc.)</p></td></tr><tr><td><strong>!summary_contains:</strong></td><td>Isolates articles whose summary includes specific characters, case-sensitive</td><td><p><strong>!summary_contains:</strong>Tesco</p><p></p><p>Filters articles mentioning "Tesco"</p></td></tr><tr><td><strong>url_contains:</strong></td><td>Isolates articles whose web address (URL) includes specific characters</td><td><p><strong>url_contains:</strong>scandal</p><p></p><p>Filters links whose URL includes "scandal", "scandals", "scandalous", etc.</p></td></tr><tr><td><strong>paywall: (true/false)</strong></td><td>Isolates articles that are behind a paywall</td><td><p><strong>paywall:</strong>false</p><p></p><p>Filters articles that are free to read</p></td></tr></tbody></table>


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