What's Trending Now - Google, Wikipedia & Hacker News
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from $3.00 / 1,000 trending item returneds
What's Trending Now - Google, Wikipedia & Hacker News
One call returns what is trending right now across three official sources: Google Trends trending searches, Wikipedia's most-read articles and Hacker News top stories, in one common row shape with rank, title, URL and a popularity metric. Built for AI agents, newsrooms and content teams. No login.
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from $3.00 / 1,000 trending item returneds
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What's Trending Now — Google, Wikipedia & Hacker News in one call
One call returns what is trending right now across three official sources: Google's trending searches, Wikipedia's most-read articles and Hacker News' top stories. Every item comes back in the same row shape (rank, title, URL and a popularity metric), so you can compare them side by side. For AI agents that need today's context, newsrooms, and content teams looking for a story.
Quick start: press Start with no configuration. You get Google's trending searches in the US, the 20 most-read English Wikipedia articles of the latest day, and the top 20 Hacker News stories: 50 rows in about 4–6 seconds in our local runs.
Sample output
| source | rank | title | metricText | startedAt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jadan baugh | 500+ searches | 2026-10-31T15:00:00Z | |
| 2 | john kerry | 200+ searches | 2026-10-31T15:00:00Z | |
| wikipedia | 1 | Patrick Stewart | 1,882,386 views | 2026-10-30 |
| wikipedia | 2 | Sunny Ozell | 488,907 views | 2026-10-30 |
| hackernews | 1 | Molly(Signal fork) has not been updated since 3 months and is vulnerable | 143 points, 88 comments | 2026-10-31T10:23:41Z |
| hackernews | 2 | We Took over ChatGPT Accounts | 149 points, 68 comments | 2026-10-31T10:30:11Z |
These rows come from a run on 31 October 2026.
The row shape
| Field | Wikipedia | Hacker News | |
|---|---|---|---|
title | the search term | the article | the story |
url | Google Trends explore link | the article | the linked page (or the discussion) |
metric / metricName | lower bound of searches / approxSearches | page views that day / views | points / points |
startedAt | when the trend started | the day counted | when it was posted |
context | the linked news headlines | short description and extract | comment count and author |
| extras | news, region (country), imageUrl | region (language), imageUrl | comments, discussionUrl |
A field that a source does not have is null, never missing. Rows stay under 2.5 KB in every run we measured.
Input
| Field | Default | Notes |
|---|---|---|
sources | all three | Any of google, wikipedia, hackernews. |
country | US | Country for Google: a code or an English name such as Thailand. |
wikipediaLanguage | en | Which Wikipedia: en, de, ja, th… |
maxPerSource | 20 | Up to 50. Google's feed lists 10 trends per country. |
One source down never costs you the others
The three sources are read in parallel and independently. If one fails (an unknown country, a Wikipedia language that does not exist, a source that is down), the others still return and the SUMMARY record names the failed source and why. The run fails only when every source failed.
How it works
- Google: the Trending Now RSS feed that Google Trends publishes for feed readers.
- Wikipedia: Wikimedia's featured-content feed and its most-read list. Today's list appears only after the day is counted, so the Actor uses the most recent day that has one. It identifies itself with a User-Agent and contact URL, as Wikimedia asks.
- Hacker News: the official Firebase API, a few requests at a time.
No login, no cookies, no API key, no page scraping.
Pricing
You pay per item returned: $3 per 1,000 items, whichever source it came from. A failed source costs nothing. The run respects your spending limit.
FAQ
Why is the Wikipedia date a day or two behind? Wikimedia publishes the most-read list once a day has finished. The row's startedAt tells you which day it covers.
Can I get only one source? Yes. Set sources to ["hackernews"], for example.
Can I get Google trends for several countries? This Actor takes one country, to keep one call small. For many countries, use our Google Trends Trending Now Actor.
Works well with
Same publisher, same output conventions, same honest-failure rules:
- google-trends-trending-now — What people are searching on Google right now, by country, with the news behind it.
- bluesky-trending-topics — What Bluesky is talking about now, with post counts and top posts.
Disclaimer
This is an unofficial tool, not affiliated with Google, the Wikimedia Foundation or Y Combinator. It reads only public feeds and APIs that each publishes for programs to use. Wikipedia text is available under CC BY-SA; credit it when you republish.
