Search

Keyword-in discovery. Every other Research page starts from a channel you already track. This one starts from a topic.

Studio, then Search.

Results come live from official APIs, not from a stored corpus, so what you see is current.

Platforms

YouTube works properly. Instagram works through hashtag search, with a hard cap. Threads is crippled by Meta's access tier.

Modes are top or recent. Timeframes are 7, 30 or 90 days. Sort by views, relative performance or newest.

Searches live in the URL, so a result page is linkable and the back button behaves.

Quotas, which you will hit

YouTube: a daily budget

YouTube search runs against a daily quota, default 90 searches per day for the brand. The page shows used and remaining.

Saved searches replay from cache, which costs no quota. Re-opening one is free.

Instagram: 30 hashtags per 7 days, permanently

Meta caps hashtag search at 30 unique hashtags per rolling 7 day window, per querying account. It runs on your own connected Instagram account.

There is no way to buy a slot back, and no way to reset the window. Spend them deliberately: a typo costs you one of thirty.

Without a connected Instagram account, the tab shows a connect prompt instead.

Threads: mostly does not work

On Meta's default Standard Access, keyword search returns only your own posts and profile lookup only resolves Meta's own handles.

The implementation is complete. The access is not. It unlocks when Meta grants Advanced Access.

Saved searches

Save a search, up to 5, and it re-runs every 6 hours in the background. New results show as a "fresh" badge.

Opening a saved search replays its cached last run. Instant, and it costs no quota. Opening it clears the fresh badge.

Only the active toggle is editable on a saved search. To change the query, save a new one. Re-saving an identical query reactivates the existing one rather than duplicating it.

Five is not many, so save the queries you want monitored rather than every query you run.

What to do with a result

Save a hook from it, start a script, generate ideas, or track the channel that posted it. That last one is often the best outcome: a search that keeps surfacing the same account means you should be tracking it.

Getting value from the quotas

• Use saved searches for anything you want watched, since re-opening them is free.
• On Instagram, search the hashtag you actually plan to post under, not variations you are curious about.
• Prefer YouTube for exploratory searching. It has by far the most generous limits and the best data.