ExchangeRebelWhat is trending, where — and how fast?
We are considering an API that answers what is trending, where, and how fast — computed across two independent open sources: GDELT (global news-coverage data, free for commercial use, cited in every answer) and Wikimedia pageviews (what the world is actually reading; the counts are CC0).
A topic only counts as breaking out when both sources move together — news coverage alone is not enough, and reading volume alone is not enough. Every answer carries a time dimension: velocity, stage, and what changed.
Attention data only — what is being covered and read, and how fast that is changing. Not trading signals, not advice.
The endpoints it would offer
| Endpoint | What it answers | Price |
|---|---|---|
changes | What changed since your last check: new breakouts, stage changes, exits | $0.005/call |
verdict | One call: is this topic breaking out, peaking, or fading, with the evidence | $0.01/call |
stage | Where a trend is in its life: emerging, accelerating, peaking, fading, dormant | $0.01/call |
geo | Where it started and how far it has spread | $0.01/call |
rank | Top movers in a category, normalised so niche topics are not buried by sport and celebrity volume | $0.01/call |
breakout | Topics rising sharply across BOTH sources in the last 24h, with first-seen times | $0.02/call |
brief | The whole board in one call: breakouts + stages + spread + movers | $0.05/call |
Example questions it will answer:
- Is this topic breaking out, peaking, or fading right now — and what is the evidence?
- What changed since my last check: which topics entered, moved stage, or dropped off?
- Where did this trend start, and how far has it spread?
- What are the top movers in my category today, normalised for category size?
- Which topics rose sharply across both news coverage and reading volume in the last 24 hours?
These are examples of the questions the API is designed to answer — not live output.
Planned launch shape
A keyless per-call API — pay per call (crypto, x402), no subscription, no minimum, no account.
Honest status
This product does not exist yet, and there is no launch date. This page exists to decide whether it gets built. If 30 builders sign up — with at least 10 choosing an endpoint they would pay for at the listed price — within 14 days of our first public post about it, the build decision goes ahead and we publish the tally. Below that bar, it gets parked, and we publish that too.
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