X
LiveSensitiveWhat is trending, by location
/data-api/v2/x/trends- Scope
- scrape:live
- Freshness
- live read
- Group
- X
- Platforms
- 1 of 7
What this endpoint answers
X's real trending board for one place, addressed by Yahoo WOEID. Not a proxy assembled from our own corpus and not one global board relabelled per country - this is the list X itself serves to somebody in that location.
This is a live read: it goes to the platform at request time, returns cache_age_s = 0, and is metered against a separate live-per-minute bucket on top of your tier. It needs the scrape:live scope (Live scrape): Read from the platform itself rather than from the catalog: a profile or channel on any of the seven platforms, and on X the whole content layer - timelines, posts, replies, quotes, threads, followers, search, lists and communities.
Good to know
- Promoted trends are dropped. X marks paid placements, and an advert rendered inside a ranked list titled 'what is trending' is the reader being told something false. Ranks are assigned after the filter, so the board reads 1..N with no holes.
- query is decoded plain text ready for encodeURIComponent, not X's percent-encoded form. Passing the raw upstream field through would double-encode it and every search link built from it would land on a search for literal percent signs.
- tweet_volume is null on nearly every location - X stopped populating it years ago. Null means 'no volume data', not 'no posts'.
- 404 means X has no board for that WOEID, usually because the place id was retired. It is a statement about the location, not about the service.
- Metered as a live call. It leaves the building and spends a slot on the same scraper pool that lets sellers verify a listing, so read GET /scrape/status and back off BEFORE you start failing rather than after.
- 503 with upstream_error or upstream_timeout is worth retrying; 404 is not. A 503 whose message names a rate-limited X endpoint means the answer is unknown, not empty - never cache it as a result.
Parameters
Every value the call accepts, with the example the spec ships so the request runs as written.
| Name | In | Required | Example | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
woeid | query | required | 1 | Yahoo place id. 1 is worldwide; 23424969 is Turkey; 23424977 is the United States. |
limit | query | optional | 30 | Trends to return, 1-50. X serves 30-50 per location. |
Call it
Authenticate with a bearer token or the x-api-key header. Keys are server-to-server credentials. Never embed one in front-end code - call the API from your own backend and forward the result.
curl "https://crmsolid.com/data-api/v2/x/trends?woeid=1" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer psk_live_..."
const res = await fetch("https://crmsolid.com/data-api/v2/x/trends?woeid=1", {
headers: {
Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.CRM_SOLID_DATA_API_KEY}`,
},
});
if (!res.ok) {
const { error } = await res.json();
throw new Error(`${error.code}: ${error.message} (${error.request_id})`);
}
const { data, meta } = await res.json();
import os
import requests
res = requests.get(
"https://crmsolid.com/data-api/v2/x/trends?woeid=1",
headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['CRM_SOLID_DATA_API_KEY']}"},
timeout=30,
)
res.raise_for_status()
payload = res.json()
data, meta = payload["data"], payload["meta"]
Keys look like psk_live_... for production keys, psk_test_... for test keys and are minted in the panel.
What comes back
Success is { data, meta }. Failure is { error: { code, message, request_id } }. The body below is the spec's own example: the values in it are illustrative readings, not live numbers.
- Woeid
- 1
- Location
- Worldwide
- As of
- 9/2/2026, 9:00:04 AM
- Trends
- 1 items
{
"data": {
"woeid": 1,
"location": "Worldwide",
"as_of": "2026-09-02T09:00:04Z",
"trends": [
{
"rank": 1,
"name": "#Starship",
"query": "#Starship",
"tweet_volume": null
}
]
},
"meta": {
"request_id": "req_9f2c41a8b3d5",
"generated_at": "2026-08-23T09:14:02.317Z",
"took_ms": 42,
"page": {
"limit": 50,
"next_cursor": "eyJrIjoiMTczNDU2IiwiZCI6ImEifQ",
"count": 50
},
"cache_age_s": 0
}
}
The meta block
request_idstringrequiredUnique id for this request. Quote it in a support ticket.
generated_atstringrequiredServer time the response was produced.
took_msintegerrequiredMilliseconds spent server-side.
pagePageoptionalsourcestringoptionalWhich backend served the payload, for endpoints with more than one.
cache_age_sintegeroptionalAge of the underlying data in seconds. 0 for live reads.
meta.page
limitintegerrequiredRows requested. Default 50, maximum 500.
next_cursorstringrequiredPass as ?cursor= to fetch the next page. null means the result set is exhausted, and it is the only reliable stop condition.
countintegerrequiredRows in this page.
totalintegeroptionalTotal matching rows. Present only when counting is cheap; never assume it is there.
List endpoints take ?limit= (max 500) and ?cursor=. Follow meta.page.next_cursor until it is null; cursors are opaque and signed.
When it fails
GET /x/trends documents 7 failure statuses. Branch on error.code, which is stable and enumerated; message is prose and may change.
- 401Unauthorized
unauthorized | invalid_keyNo key was presented, or the key is unknown, revoked or expired.
- 402PaymentRequired
payment_required | subscription_inactiveThe key is valid but the plan behind it cannot serve the call: the included requests are spent and overage is switched off, capped or unfunded (payment_required), or the billing period lapsed and was not renewed (subscription_inactive). Retrying does not help; paying does. The X-Plan-* headers on this response say how far past the line you are.
Carries X-Plan, X-Plan-Limit, X-Plan-Overage, X-Plan-Period-End, X-Plan-Remaining.
- 403Forbidden
forbidden_scope | forbidden_ipThe key is valid but not allowed to make this call: it lacks the scope, or the request came from an address outside the key's allowlist.
- 422InvalidRequest
invalid_requestA parameter is malformed, out of range or mutually exclusive with another. `details` names the offending fields.
- 429RateLimited
rate_limited | quota_exceededEither the burst ceiling for the current minute or the daily quota is spent. Distinguish with the code: rate_limited clears within the minute, quota_exceeded does not clear until 00:00 UTC.
Carries Retry-After, X-Quota-Limit, X-Quota-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Reset, X-Request-Id.
- 500InternalError
internal_errorSomething failed on our side. Internals are never leaked; quote the request id.
- 503Unavailable
upstream_timeout | upstream_error | not_configuredThe request could not be served right now. BRANCH ON error.code, not on the status: 'upstream_timeout' means a source was too slow (this is what a catalog query hitting its 15-second statement timeout returns, so it is reachable from any endpoint that reads the corpus, not only the live-scrape ones) and the same call is worth retrying with backoff - narrowing it with a smaller limit, a filtered scope or a less popular account makes it far less likely; 'upstream_error' means a source was unreachable, so back off further; 'not_configured' means the capability has no backing service in this deployment, and retrying will never help.
Every response carries X-Request-Id and meta.request_id. Quote it in support requests.
Coverage and limits
This endpoint covers X. Rate limits come from the tier on your key.
| Tier | Requests a minute | Requests a day | Live reads a minute |
|---|---|---|---|
| free | 30 | 1,000 | 5 |
| standard | 120 | 25,000 | 20 |
| pro | 600 | 250,000 | 60 |
| unlimited | 6,000 | 10,000,000 | 600 |
Live reads count against the live column as well as the ordinary one, so a burst of them runs out of the live bucket first. Every response reports where you stand in X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Reset and the X-Plan headers.
Start calling it
A key takes a minute to mint in the panel, no card. The reference covers authentication, the envelope, scopes, rate limits and every error code in one page.
Reference path: /data-api/reference/x-trends