Twitter / X Trends Scraper – Trending Topics & Hashtags

What does Twitter / X Trends Scraper do?

Twitter / X Trends Scraper gets the trending topics and hashtags on X (Twitter) for worldwide or any of 60+ countries, right now or for any hour in the past 24 hours. One row per trend, ranked, with the country and hour it came from.

No X developer account, no paid API plan. It runs on Apify, so you can schedule it every hour, call it from the API, or send the trends to Google Sheets, Slack, Make, Zapier or n8n.

What people use it for

• Content planning: see what's trending in your market before you post, and jump on a topic while it's still rising.
• Trend history: X only shows trends live. Run this hourly and you build your own archive of what trended where and when.
• Social listening and brand alerts: get notified when your brand, product or competitor shows up in a country's trends.
• Comparing countries: run 10 countries at once and spot a topic that's spreading from one market to the next.
• News and research: a timestamped record of what people were talking about during an event.
• Hashtag research: find the trending hashtags to use in a given country today.

Why use this one?

• No X API: no developer approval, no $100+ a month API plan.
• 60+ countries plus worldwide, all in one run with batch mode.
• The past 24 hours, by the hour: missed a spike this morning? Pick the hour (UTC) and get the trends from then.
• Flat, ranked rows: ready for CSV, Excel or a database without cleanup.
• You only pay for trends: a query that fails isn't saved as a row or charged. It shows up in the run's status message instead.

How to use it

1. Click Try for free.
2. Pick a country, or leave it empty for worldwide.
3. Optionally set an hour (UTC) to see what was trending earlier.
4. Click Start. The ranked trends appear in the Output tab.
5. Download as JSON, CSV or Excel, or set a schedule (hourly works well).

Input

One country:

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

Several countries or hours in one run:

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

Field	Type	Description	Default
country	string	Country slug, like united-states, united-kingdom, japan, saudi-arabia. 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	now
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 unreliable lately. When it's down, those queries fail and are listed in the status message (not charged). Today and the past 24 hours work normally.

Output

One row per trend, ranked:

{
  "position": 1,
  "trend": "#WorldKindnessDay",
  "tweets": null,
  "country": "united-states",
  "date": "today",
  "hour": null,
  "limit": 20,
  "scraped_at": "2026-11-13T09:00:05Z",
  "success": true,
  "query": "country=united-states&date=today&limit=20"
}

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 stopped publishing most of these counts, so it's usually empty
country, date, hour, limit		The query this row came from
success	boolean	Always true on saved rows
query, scraped_at	string	Query summary and collection time (UTC)

How many results will I get?

You pay per trend, so the bill follows the number of rows. Your plan's rates are on the Pricing tab.

Input	Results
1 country, limit 50	Up to 50 rows
1 country, limit 10	Up to 10 rows
10 countries, limit 20	Up to 200 rows
1 country every hour for a day, limit 10	Up to 240 rows

Tips

• For an hourly archive, keep limit at 10–20. The top of the list is what matters, and it keeps a 24-runs-a-day schedule cheap.
• Use Apify webhooks or the Slack integration to get pinged when a keyword enters the list.
• Want to know what people are actually searching for, not just posting? Pair it with Google Trends Scraper below.

FAQ

Do I need an X account or API key? No. It reads public trending lists, nothing behind a login.

How often do trends change? All the time. The list moves within minutes during big events, which is why the hour option and hourly schedules are useful.

Can I get trends for a city? Not right now, countries and worldwide only.

Why is tweets empty? X no longer shows post counts for most trends, so there's usually nothing to read.

Is it maintained? Yes, I keep it running. If something breaks, open an issue in the Issues tab and I'll look at it.

Need a custom feature? Open an issue or message me on Discord: maged03211

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⭐ Found it useful? A short review on the Store helps other people find it, and it tells me what to improve next.

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