Osortoo offers several filtering options to help you manage your giveaway entries. Some filters depend on the platform’s API capabilities, while others are always available.
Below is a clear explanation of what you can filter by date, hour, and tags, and how each option works.

1. Filtering by Date and Hour

Filtering by date and hour is available for some platforms, depending on the data provided by their APIs.

What you can filter

You can remove entries that were posted:

• before your giveaway started
• after your giveaway ended
• outside a specific time window

This filter is useful when your contest has strict start and end dates.

Platform availability

• Facebook: Date and hour filtering available when timestamps are accessible
• Instagram: Available only when Instagram provides timestamp data for the post
• YouTube: Available for public videos with timestamped comments

If the platform sends the timestamp, Osortoo allows the filter.
If the platform does not send the timestamp, the filter remains unavailable.

2. Filtering by tags (mentions)

Osortoo can filter entries based on the number of people tagged inside a comment.

What the tag filter does

You can require:

• at least 1 tagged friend
• 2 tagged friends
• 3 tagged friends
• or more, depending on your giveaway rules

Example:
“If you want to participate, tag 2 friends.”

Only comments that contain the required number of mentions remain eligible.

Platform availability

• Instagram: Tag count filter available
• Facebook: Tag count filter available depending on comment structure
• YouTube: Tags do not exist in comment format

This filter depends on how the comment is written and the data provided by the platform.

3. Filtering by hashtags (keywords)

You can filter comments based on specific hashtags or keywords.

Two modes

• Include keywords → keeps only comments containing the chosen word or hashtag
• Exclude keywords → removes any comment containing an unwanted word or hashtag

This filter helps you enforce content-related rules or remove spam.

4. Filters that are not supported

Some filters are not possible due to platform limits:

• filtering by user profile (followers, likes, shares)
• filtering by user account type (private, business, etc.)
• filtering by story shares
• filtering by post likes or reactions

These actions require access to private user data, and APIs do not allow it.

Summary

You can filter entries in Osortoo using:

Available

• date and hour (platform-dependent)
• minimum number of tags (mentions)
• keywords and hashtags (include and exclude)
• duplicate removal
• blacklist

Not available

• user follows/unfollows
• post likes or reactions
• story shares
• private user information

Osortoo applies every filter allowed by each platform’s API to help you create a clean and rule-compliant participant list.