YouTube Trending Topic Finder
Pricing
$3.00 / 1,000 trending topic results
Discover rising YouTube topics in any niche. Analyzes recent videos and Shorts by view velocity, engagement, upload age and creator diversity, clusters repeated themes, and returns ranked trending topics with momentum scores, signals and evidence videos.
rowType
Optional
trending_topic for a topic row. A run that finds no topics writes a single free run_status row explaining why.
rank
Optional
Position in this run's ranking, 1 = highest trend score.
topic
Optional
Topic label — the phrase that best names the cluster, in the casing creators use.
seedTopics
Optional
Seed(s) whose sample the topic was found in. More than one = cross-seed topic.
trendScore
Optional
0–100 momentum score. See scoreBreakdown for the parts.
trendTier
Optional
BREAKOUT, RISING, ACTIVE or WEAK.
confidence
Optional
HIGH, MEDIUM or LOW — evidence count, creator count, metadata completeness and cluster coherence.
trendSignals
Optional
Why the topic scored as it did, e.g. HIGH_VIEW_VELOCITY, MULTIPLE_BREAKOUT_VIDEOS, MULTIPLE_CREATORS, SINGLE_VIDEO_DRIVEN, SINGLE_CREATOR_DOMINANCE.
trendSummary
Optional
One-sentence plain-English explanation.
videoCount
Optional
Recent videos in the topic.
uniqueCreators
Optional
Distinct channels in the topic.
totalViews
Optional
Sum of views across the topic's videos.
avgViewsPerHour
Optional
Average views per hour since upload — the core velocity measure.
breakoutVideoCount
Optional
Videos far above their niche's typical velocity.
metrics
Optional
Full topic metrics: views, velocity, likes, comments, engagement rate, videos and creators with traction, Shorts/long-form/live counts. Null where YouTube does not expose a value — never zero-filled.
scoreBreakdown
Optional
Points per score component and any penalties applied.
observedWindow
Optional
Requested window plus the oldest and newest evidence upload times.
topCreators
Optional
Most active channels in the topic.
evidenceVideos
Optional
Videos that most strongly support the topic, strongest momentum first.
regionCode
Optional
Country search was localised to.
languageCode
Optional
Interface language used.
scrapedAt
Optional
ISO 8601 time of the analysis.
status
Optional
run_status rows only: NO_RESULTS, SEARCH_FAILED, RATE_LIMITED, BLOCKED, INVALID_SEED or CLUSTERING_ERROR.
message
Optional
run_status rows only: why no topics were returned and what to change.
