Keywords power Rules and filters in Feeder. Whether you’re starring posts about a topic you love or filtering out noise, it helps to know exactly what a keyword will match. Here’s the full picture.
The basics
Keywords match whole words, in any capitalization. The keyword sport matches “sport”, “Sport”, and “SPORT”, but not “sporting”, since that’s a different word.
Phrases
A keyword can be several words, like climate change. It matches posts where those words appear together, in that order. Quotes are optional: "climate change" works exactly the same as climate change.
Wildcards
Use * to match any number of characters. The keyword sport* matches “sport”, “sports”, and “sporting”. There is also %, which matches exactly one character: h%llo matches “hello” and “hallo”.
Matching capitalization exactly
Sometimes capitalization is the whole point. Maybe you want to catch the news agency byline “NAME” without matching every mention of “Name”, or the country “US” without the word “us”.
Click Aa on a keyword after adding it, and it will only match its exact capitalization. Click Aa again to turn it off.
Seeing what matches
The live preview next to the rule editor shows which posts your keywords match, so you can fine-tune before saving. And remember: Rules and filters only apply to new posts, so posts already in Feeder stay as they are.
Any questions? Let us know at support@feeder.co