All capabilities

Trending keywords

What the corpus is actually talking about right now, ranked, each with a sentiment score and a link into the tag taxonomy.

18trending now

A rolling window, not a corpus — 18 is the complete current set, and it turns over as coverage moves. The value is the ranking, not the volume.

What's in a record

Every field the corpus returns for one record. Real shape — walked corpus-wide, not sampled.

  • id
  • keyword
  • sentiment_score
  • trending_order
  • trendiness
{ "id": 40834, "keyword": { "id": 211, "name": "Bitcoin", "tag": { "id": 136, "slug": "bitcoin", "name": "bitcoin" }, "match_type": "phrase", "case_sensitive": false, "required_terms": [] }, "sentiment_score": "0.00", "trending_order": 0, "trendiness": "0.63" }

Get it

A curl that runs against the live API right now, plus the MCP tool names for the same data.

curl https://api.alphaday.com/keywords/trending/

MCP tools

get_trending_keywordsget_trending_keywords_detail

What it's for

Three concrete questions this capability answers that a general crypto API does not.

  • Letting the data pick the subject: an agent that starts here finds stories nobody put on a watchlist, which is the loop /cookbook/crypto-research-agent runs.
  • Composability, which is the real reason to use this: each entry carries keyword.tag.slug, and that slug is accepted by every other feed — so a trending term turns straight into news, governance and price queries.
  • Mood alongside momentum: trendiness says how much attention a term is getting, sentiment_score says how the coverage reads. A term trending hard at negative sentiment is a different story from one trending hard at positive.

Known limits

Required, not optional. Coverage gaps, staleness and parameter traps that were observed by running the curl above against the live server on 2026-09-18.

There is no history.

The endpoint returns the current window only. There is no date parameter and no archive, so "what was trending last Tuesday" cannot be answered — snapshot it yourself if you need a series.

The set is small and complete.

total is 18 and all 18 come back in one page. Pagination is unnecessary, and a limit above 18 changes nothing. Do not build an infinite scroll on it.

Scores are strings.

sentiment_score and trendiness are quoted decimals — "0.63", not 0.63. Sorting without casting gives lexicographic order.

Figures and payloads verified against the live API on 2026-09-18. The API needs no key and no signup — see the full endpoint reference and the MCP server.