Kick Trending Clips Scraper — what should I clip right now? $2.00/1,000 clips

The question every clipper asks every morning: "what's going viral on Kick right now?" This Actor answers it in one run: trending Kick clips — global, per category, or per channel — ranked by view velocity (views per hour), not by stale total views. A 2-hour-old clip doing 500 views/hour beats a week-old clip with a big total. That's the clip you want to repost while it's still rising.

Every row includes the direct video URL and thumbnail, so your pipeline can go straight from "found it" to "editing it". Plain HTTP against Kick's public JSON API. No login, no API key, no browser, no proxies.

$2.00 per 1,000 clips + $0.001 per start. Scanning is free — you only pay for the ranked rows you receive. maxClips is a hard cost cap.

Who uses this

• Clippers & content farmers — running clipping campaigns (Whop Content Rewards & co.) that pay per view: find rising moments before they're saturated, download, cut, post.
• Streamer editors & agencies — daily digest of what popped from your roster's streams without scrubbing VODs.
• Meme pages & aggregators — fresh viral supply for TikTok/Shorts/Reels, filtered to ≤60s.
• Researchers & AI agents — structured stream-culture trend data with predictable cost.

What you get per clip

Field	Example	Notes
rank	1	position after ranking
clipId	clip_01M14…	stable dedupe key
title	he actually did it
channel / channelSlug	xQc	who was live
creator	ClipGoblinJoe	who clipped it
category / categorySlug	Just Chatting
views / likes	120400
ageHours	3.2	how fresh
viewsPerHour	37625	the velocity signal
durationSeconds	30
isMature	false	filter for brand-safe campaigns
clipPageUrl		share/verify link
videoUrl		direct video URL (m3u8)
thumbnailUrl, livestreamId, createdAt, scrapedAt

Every field always present (nullable, never missing).

Input

{
  "mode": "global",
  "time": "day",
  "sortBy": "velocity",
  "maxDurationSeconds": 60,
  "excludeMature": true,
  "maxClips": 50
}

• mode — global (all of Kick), category (e.g. ["just-chatting", "slots-casino"]), or channel (e.g. ["xqc"]).
• sortBy — velocity (default, catches what's rising NOW) or views.
• minViews / minViewsPerHour / maxDurationSeconds / excludeMature — quality knobs. ≤60s + non-mature = Shorts-ready.
• scanDepth — how deep to scan before ranking (free); maxClips — how many ranked rows you pay for.
• onlyNew — monitor mode: remembers returned clipIds, later runs only output (and charge) genuinely new clips.

How to schedule this Actor (recommended)

Viral moments live and die in hours — this is built to run on a schedule:

1. Open the Actor → Try for free, set your categories/channels and filters.
2. Save as a task → Schedules → e.g. 0 */2 * * * (every 2 hours) with "onlyNew": true.
3. Add an integration (Slack, Discord webhook, Google Sheets) — new rising clips land where you work, with video links ready.

Monitoring global trending every 2 hours with maxClips: 25 costs about $3/month.

Pairs perfectly with

• Whop Content Rewards Scraper — find clipping campaigns that pay per view, then use this Actor to find the content to clip. Campaign → content → payout.

For AI agents & MCP

• Minimal input that just works: {} — global day trending by velocity.
• Predictable cost: exactly $0.002 × clips + $0.001 per run.
• Stable flat schema; clipId is the dedupe key; RUN_SUMMARY in the key-value store.

Fair use & data source

Only public data from Kick's public API (the same data shown on kick.com). Reasonable rate limits. No login, no personal data beyond public usernames. Respect Kick's ToS and creators' rights when reusing content — clipping campaigns normally grant this permission explicitly.