trend-discovery

Use when the user wants to discover trending social topics, hashtags, sounds, posts, reels, shorts, creators, or formats in a niche. Searches public trend and discovery endpoints, ranks evidence, and turns trends into practical content angles.

By scrapecreators · 608 installs

npx skills add scrapecreators/social-media-research-skills --skill trend-discovery

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Trend Discovery Overview Find trends worth acting on. This skill is for social media trend research across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, Pinterest, and other public sources. The output should separate real evidence from vague "this is trending" claims. When to Use Use this skill when the user asks to: find trends in a niche or category discover trending TikTok sounds, hashtags, creators, or videos find trending Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts ideas build a weekly trend brief decide what content formats or angles to jump on Useful Sources Signal Endpoint examples TikTok trending feed /v1/tiktok/get trending feed TikTok popular hashtags/songs/videos/creators /v1/tiktok/hashtags/popular , /v1/tiktok/songs/popular , /v1/tiktok/videos/popular , /v1/tiktok/creators/popular TikTok search /v1/tiktok/search/top , /v1/tiktok/search/keyword , /v1/tiktok/search/hashtag Instagram trends/search /v1/instagram/reels/trending , /v2/instagram/reels/search , /v1/instagram/search/hashtag YouTube /v1/youtube/shorts/trending , /v1/youtube/search , /v1/youtube/search/hashtag Reddit /v1/reddit/search , /v1/reddit/subreddit , /v1/reddit/subreddit/search Pinterest /v1/pinterest/search Workflow 1. Define niche, country/region, platform, and time sensitivity. 2. Pull trend/discovery/search results from 2 4 relevant sources. 3. Normalize evidence: post URL, creator, metric, date, topic, sound/hashtag if present. 4. Cluster into trends by topic, format, hook, sound, meme, or audience problem. 5. Rank trends by evidence strength and relevance, not raw views alone. 6. Translate each trend into content ideas the user can actually make. Output Format Common Pitfalls Do not call something a trend from one post unless the user only asked for examples. Do not ignore region. TikTok trends can be highly country specific. Do not recommend jumping on trends that do not fit the user's brand or audience.