Act faster than ever on emerging trends
The Exploding Topics API delivers emerging trend data straight to your tools and dashboards. Stock trending products, publish timely content, and make strategic decisions faster than your competitors.
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The Freshest Trends Fuel Faster Growth
Take action on undiscovered trends before they surface.
Act Faster Than Your Competitors, Every Time
Integrate and automate emerging trend data with your workflows to make staying ahead of the competition look effortless.
Send Automated Notifications for Trending Products
Alert your team to a trending product, topic, or meta trend automatically. Initiate your workflows sooner to avoid missing out on the growth you'll achieve from moving quickly.
Set up Automated Workflows
Fill a spreadsheet with trending topics, create tasks in your project management system, or generate market reports on demand with a tool like Zapier, Make.com or n8n.
Create Data Visualizations Where You Need Them Most
Want to visualize Exploding Topics data alongside other important metrics? Create a custom dashboard in a custom app or use an API platform like Postman to pull together data from different APIs. Visualize your data your way.
Automatically Add to Your Strategic Content Workflow
Put the API to work scoping out trending topics for you, so you can create the right content at the right time. Publish your coverage days before your competitors do.
Put Content Updates on Autopilot
Go ahead, create content with a table of trending topics or products in your niche, then forget about ever having to update it manually. With the API, you can update it without lifting a finger. Or, create a constantly-updating widget like ours.
Exploding Topics Pro is trusted by 1,200+ teams worldwide.
How We Find Trends
We track topics across the internet to identify under-the-radar trends before they go mainstream.
Analyze
Our trend identification process begins with a comprehensive data collection from a variety of online sources.
- Social media platforms
- Search engines
- Online forums and communities
- News articles and blogs
- E-commerce websites
- Podcasts
Identify
Our proprietary machine learning models are designed to detect the absolute earliest signs of an emerging trend.
- Analyze historical data to identify growth patterns
- Predict future trends based on current data trajectories
- Detect sudden spikes in interest or activity around specific topics
Curate
While our algorithms are powerful, human expertise is crucial for contextual understanding, ensuring quality topics.
- Review the top-scoring trends identified by our models
- Validate the authenticity and relevance of these trends
- Filter out fads (movies, TV shows, celebrity gossip, etc.)
- Provide qualitative insights to complement quantitative data
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Stay ahead of the competition with a 7-day free trial of Exploding Topics Pro.
1.1M+ trends in our growing database. Pro plans starts at $1.29/day.
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Everything you need to know about using our features and getting the most out of them.
What's the difference between the Google Trends API vs. the Exploding Topics API?
The Exploding Topics API serves a fundamentally different purpose than Google Trends. While Google Trends is search-focused and shows historical search interest on a relative scale of 0-100, Exploding Topics is discovery-focussed with proprietary datasets and categorization along with raw search volume numbers to identify emerging trends before they go mainstream. Our API incorporates machine learning to forecast the next 12 months of trend growth, helping you spot opportunities early rather than tracking what's already popular. Exploding Topics is best for product ideation, inventory planning, content strategy, and market intelligence—while Google Trends is primarily useful for historical SEO research.
What are the usage limits on the Exploding Topics API?
The API is available in three tiers: 1,000 requests per month ($1,000), 5,000 requests per month ($2,000), and 25,000 requests per month ($4,000). Each API call to retrieve trend data, product information, or startup insights counts as one request, and the rate limit is 60 requests per minute. All tiers include access to every API endpoint in our documentation. If you need more than 25,000 requests per month or want to use the API for commercial purposes (like integrating it into your product), contact us for custom pricing.
Do I need an Exploding Topics Pro plan to access the API?
Yes, the API is available as an add-on to the Exploding Topics Pro Business plan, which starts at $249/month. The Business plan gives you access to our full trends database, forecasting capabilities, and 2,000 tracked trends, plus the ability to purchase an API package on top. You can start with a 7-day free trial of Pro Business to explore the platform before adding API access.
What data can I access through the Exploding Topics API?
The API gives you programmatic access to our database of 1.1M+ trends, including search volume, growth percentages, trend forecasts, key indicators (growth speed, seasonality, volatility, sentiment), related trends, trending products, trending startups, and meta trends. You can filter by category, timeframe, growth level, brand vs. non-brand, and more. The API returns structured JSON data that's easy to integrate into dashboards, workflows, and custom applications.
Can I integrate the Exploding Topics API with tools like Slack, Zapier, or my CRM?
Absolutely. The API is designed to work with automation platforms like Zapier, Make.com, and n8n, as well as communication tools like Slack (via webhooks you build). You can also connect it to project management systems like Asana or Trello, spreadsheet tools like Airtable or Google Sheets, or build custom integrations with your CRM, inventory management system, or business intelligence platform. If you can connect to a REST API, you can integrate Exploding Topics.
How often is the API data updated?
Our trends database is updated daily with the latest search volume, growth metrics, and emerging trends. When you make an API request, you're getting the most current data available in our system. Trend forecasts are regenerated regularly based on our machine learning models, so you're always working with fresh predictions. For time-sensitive decisions around inventory, content, or product launches, you can trust that you're seeing the latest trend signals.
Where can I find documentation and/or support for the API?
Find documentation and support here: https://api.explodingtopics.com/docs/
What data is not offered through the Exploding Topics API?
The ET API is designed to allow programmatic access to pull our full Trends Database, Trending Products, Trending Startups and all their associated data including global search data. However, unfortunately we aren't able to offer custom keyword and geo-based data lookups (like the Trend Analysis in-app feature) via the Exploding Topics API.
Exploding Topics API: React to Trends Before Your Competitors
By the time most businesses notice a trend, it's already too late. The early movers have claimed the top search rankings, stocked the products customers want, and established themselves as category leaders.
With the Exploding Topics API, you can be an early mover every time. Get emerging trend data delivered straight into your workflows—whether that's a Slack notification about a spiking product, an automated content brief in your project management tool, a live dashboard combining trend forecasts with your sales data, or another tool you dream up.
Instead of scrambling to keep up with the industry, stay confidently ahead by letting the API keep you well informed.
Ready to move faster than your competition? The Exploding Topics API is available as an add-on to Exploding Topics Pro Business plans. Start your free trial and find out what it's like to always be first.
For more about the Exploding Topics API, including ideas for how to use it, check out How to Use the Exploding Topics API to Supercharge Trend Analysis.