Twitter / X Trending Topics — Real-Time & Historical Trends

What does Twitter / X Trending Topics Scraper do?

Twitter / X Trending Topics Scraper extracts the trending topics and hashtags on Twitter/X by country, right now or for any of the past 24 hours. No X developer account or paid API plan needed.

This Actor runs on the Apify platform. Use it for real-time trend monitoring, content strategy, brand monitoring, or market research.

Why use Twitter / X Trending Topics Scraper?

• No Twitter API key: no X API access costs or approval needed
• Country-specific trends: worldwide or any of 60+ countries
• Past 24 hours: pick an hour (UTC) to see what was trending earlier today
• Batch mode: many countries and hours in one run
• Scheduled monitoring: run hourly or daily to build your own trend history

How to use Twitter / X Trending Topics Scraper

1. Open the Actor and click Try for free
2. Pick a country (empty = worldwide), and optionally an hour
3. Click Start. Trends appear in the Output tab, ranked
4. Download as JSON or CSV, or schedule it for continuous monitoring

Input

Single query:

{
  "country": "united-states",
  "limit": 20
}

Several countries or hours at once:

{
  "queries": [
    { "country": "united-states", "date": "today" },
    { "country": "united-kingdom", "date": "today", "hour": 9 },
    { "country": "japan" }
  ],
  "limit": 20
}

Field	Type	Description	Default
country	string	Country slug, e.g. united-states, united-kingdom, japan. Empty = worldwide	worldwide
date	string	today, or a past date YYYY-MM-DD (see the note below)	today
hour	integer	Hour in UTC (0–23). With today, gets the trends from that hour within the past 24 hours	current
limit	integer	Trends per query (10–50)	50
queries	array	Batch mode: a list of {country, date, hour, limit} objects. A query without its own limit uses the top-level one	—

About past dates: older days come from the source's archive, which has been unavailable lately. When it's down, those queries return a row with success: false. Today and the past 24 hours work normally.

Output

Each trend is one row, ranked:

{
  "position": 1,
  "trend": "Jags",
  "tweets": null,
  "country": "united-states",
  "date": "today",
  "hour": null,
  "limit": 20,
  "scraped_at": "2026-11-09T23:49:05Z",
  "success": true,
  "query": "country=united-states&date=today&limit=20"
}

Output fields

Field	Type	Description
position	number	Rank in the trending list
trend	string	Trend name or hashtag
tweets	string	Post volume when the source shows it. X no longer publishes these counts, so it's usually empty
country, date, hour		The query this row came from
success, error		false with a reason when a query couldn't be loaded
query, scraped_at	string	Query summary and collection time

How many results will I get?

You're charged per result, so the cost follows the number of rows below. Your plan's rates are on the Pricing tab.

Input	Results
1 country	About 50 rows
10 countries	About 500 rows

Each trend is one row. Use Limit to cap the number of trends per country.

Tips

• Schedule this Actor to run hourly to build a trend history database
• Compare trending topics across countries to spot globally-viral content early
• Use Apify webhooks to alert your team when a specific keyword enters the trending list
• Combine with social listening tools to track sentiment around trending topics

FAQ

Does this require a Twitter account or API key? No — the Actor uses Twitter's public trending interface.

How often do trends update on Twitter? Twitter trends typically refresh every few minutes.

Can I track trends for a specific city? Yes — use WOEID codes to specify city-level trends where supported.

Is this Actor maintained? Yes. Report bugs or feature requests in the Issues tab.

Need help or have questions? Open an issue in the Issues tab or reach out on Discord: maged03211

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