About Trending Now
Trending Now is an OpenKrill content and media tool for finding the fastest-rising posts across Hacker News, GitHub, Product Hunt, and more by topic. It is suited to trend discovery and content research, and is public, read-only, and requires no key.
Key features
- 01Find rising trends by topic
- 02Covers Hacker News, GitHub, Product Hunt, and more
- 03Public, read-only service
- 04No API key required
Use cases
- 01Find timely topics for social posts
- 02Explore content ideas across platforms
MCP support
It exposes trend lookup to MCP clients at https://trending.openkrill.app/mcp. The server is public, read-only, and requires no key.
Configuration
Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.
https://trending.openkrill.app/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http app-openkrill-trending https://trending.openkrill.app/mcp{"mcpServers":{"app-openkrill-trending":{"type":"http","url":"https://trending.openkrill.app/mcp"}}}Open in Cursor{"servers":{"app-openkrill-trending":{"type":"http","url":"https://trending.openkrill.app/mcp"}}}Open in VS Code{"mcpServers":{"app-openkrill-trending":{"type":"http","url":"https://trending.openkrill.app/mcp"}}}{"mcpServers":{"app-openkrill-trending":{"serverUrl":"https://trending.openkrill.app/mcp"}}}Run commands in a terminal; paste JSON into the client’s MCP config and restart. Servers that need sign-in will prompt on first connect.
Tools
4| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | No | Most posts returned (default 15) |
| topic | string | No | What to look at: a niche (ai, developer-tools, startups, marketing, ecommerce, security) or plain words that must all appear in a post's title or tags, such as "claude code" or "postgres". Leave it out for everything. |
| window | enum | No | Posts published in this window (default 24h)1h | 6h | 24h | 3d | 7d |
| sources | array | No | Read only these sources (default: all) |
Details
From the project READMEContent and Media Tools
Trending topics and post ideas, post and video script drafts, AI-writing checks, transcripts, free video, Live Photos, design taste, public views and likes of posts, plus YouTube transcripts, app reviews and X posts.
claude plugin install content-media@openkrill
| Skill and MCP server | Tool | Endpoint |
|---|---|---|
postkit | Post Kit | https://postkit.openkrill.app/mcp |
ai-text | AI Text Check | https://aitext.openkrill.app/mcp |
transcript-kit | Transcript Kit | https://transcript.openkrill.app/mcp |
videograb | Video Grab | https://videograb.openkrill.app/mcp |
live-card | Live Card | https://livecard.openkrill.app/mcp |
taste | Taste Profile | https://taste.openkrill.app/mcp |
trending | Trending Now | https://trending.openkrill.app/mcp |
post-stats | Post Stats | https://poststats.openkrill.app/mcp |
openkrill-api | Agent Tools API | https://api.openkrill.app/mcp |
Every server is public, read-only and needs no key. Generated from the Agent Tools plugin listings; edits made here are overwritten.
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