X (Twitter) Advanced Search Builder

About the X (Twitter) Advanced Search Builder

Fill in a form and get a ready-to-use X (Twitter) search: exact phrases, words to include or leave out, hashtags, posts from, to or mentioning accounts, a language, a date range, minimum replies, likes and reposts, and filters for replies, links, images and videos. The query updates as you type, with a plain-English line for every condition, and Open in X takes you straight to the Top or Latest results.

The operators are the ones X’s own advanced search form writes — plus the media and link operators from X’s developer documentation. X’s help centre describes advanced search as a feature of X.com when you are logged in; this page builds the same query on any phone or computer, and lets you save searches in your browser for next time.

Common uses

• Finding an old post by someone you follow, by date and a phrase you remember.
• Checking what people said about your brand, product or event — with or without replies.
• Collecting popular posts on a topic with minimum likes or reposts.
• Building searches on a phone and saving them for later.

Every operator this builder writes

• "happy hour" — the exact phrase.
• (cats OR dogs) — either word; -cats — leaves the word out.
• #tag or (#a OR #b) — any of the hashtags.
• from:name, to:name, @name — posted by, in reply to, or mentioning an account.
• lang:hi — written in a language (X’s own guess of the post’s language).
• filter:replies / -filter:replies — only replies, or no replies.
• filter:links / -filter:links — only, or no, posts with links.
• filter:media, filter:images, filter:native_video, -filter:media — images or videos, images, videos uploaded to X, or neither.
• url:example.com — links to an address containing that text.
• min_replies:10, min_faves:100, min_retweets:50 — at least that many replies, likes or reposts.
• since:2026-01-01 — sent on or after that day; until:2026-02-01 — sent before that day.

Where these operators come from

• X’s advanced search form (x.com/search-advanced) writes the words, hashtag, account, language, replies and links filters, the three minimums and the dates exactly as above — read from the form’s code in X’s website.
• X’s API documentation (docs.x.com, search operators) says the web-search equivalents of its engagement operators are named min_faves: and min_retweets:, and lists the lang: codes offered here.
• X’s developer documentation of standard search operators describes filter:media, filter:images, filter:native_video, filter:links, url: and the meaning of since: (sent since a date) and until: (sent before a date).
• X’s help centre (help.x.com, “How to use advanced search”) describes the form’s word, people and date fields.

Tips for better results

• Start broad and add one condition at a time — every condition must match, so a long query can easily find nothing.
• For someone’s old posts, combine From these accounts with a date range; X searches “any date since the first public post”, according to its help centre.
• min_faves: counts likes at the time you search, so the same query can find more posts later.
• Hashtags in These hashtags are any-of. To require two hashtags, type both in All of these words.
• X writes OR in capitals; this tool does the same.

Limitations

• X decides what its search returns, and it can change or drop any operator without notice. The media and url: operators come from X’s developer documentation rather than its current form, so they are the most likely to change.
• X shows search results only to logged-in users, and posts from protected accounts are visible only to their approved followers.
• X does not say which time zone since: and until: use, so posts sent close to midnight may fall on either side of a date.
• lang: uses X’s automatic language detection, which can be wrong for short or mixed-language posts.
• This page does not fetch anything from X and cannot show results here; it builds the query and the link.

Privacy

The form, the query and your saved searches stay in this browser. Nothing is sent anywhere until you open a link to X, when your browser goes to x.com with the query in the address — the same as searching on X itself.