Advanced Alerts offer the ability to filter your search queries by specific languages using the lang: operator. In an alert, the operator has to be paired with the language codes that you want to monitor or block in your alert.

In this article, we will teach you how to use the operator and how to add language codes to your query. Here are the topics that we will cover:

Let's begin!

In the Advanced Alert, the dedicated operator for language monitoring is the lang: operator. When you create an alert, you can add the operator to your keyword search and it will filter your results.

The language operator is a data filter for the keywords that you are monitoring in your alert. When a new mention is fetched, Mention will determine the language of the post using information from the website's data.

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If you want to monitor specific languages, you can write your query using this variation of the operator:

This will ensure that your query monitors the language codes that interest you. Let's take a look at an example:

In this query, your alert will fetch mentions when Nike Air Max appears on publications that are in the Spanish or French language. If a post has the text Nike Air Max, but the post is in another language, it will not be fetched.

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If you want to block specific languages, you can write your query using this variation of the operator:

This will ensure that your query does not fetch mentions from specific languages. Let's take a look at an example:

In this query, your alert will fetch mentions when Adidas appears on any publication that is not in English or German. This means that your alert will fetch mentions in Spanish, Italian, French, and more.

In your Advanced Alert, you can add these language codes to your query:

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