social-media-trends-research

Programmatic trend research using three free tools: This skill provides executable code for trend research. Use alongside content-marketing-social-listening for strategy and perplexity-search for deep queries. No API keys required. Reddit scraping uses public .json endpoints. A helper class is included in scripts/reddit_scraper.py : Use Claude's built-in Perplexity MCP for platforms you can't scrape directly. Twitter/X Trends: TikTok Trends (works from India): YouTube Trends: LinkedIn Professional: General Viral Content: If you have the perplexity-search skill installed: After research, pass findings to your writing skills: *Uses Claude's built-in MCP or OpenRouter credits if using perplexity-search skill - pytrends : Google Trends data (velocity, volume, related queries) - yars : Reddit scraping without API keys - Perplexity MCP : Twitter/TikTok/Web trends (via Claude's built-in MCP) - Real-time trending searches by country - Interest over time for keywords - Related queries (rising = velocity indicators) - Interest by region - Related topics - Search Reddit for any keyword - Get hot/top/rising posts from subreddits - Post engagement data (upvotes, comments) - No authentication required - Always use rate limiting : Sleep between requests - Research in batches : Do weekly deep dives, not constant polling - Save results : Cache research data locally - Cross-reference : Validate...