x-trends

What This Skill Does

The x-trends skill is a powerful command-line interface (CLI) agent designed to retrieve real-time trending topics from X (formerly Twitter) without requiring an account or API keys. By leveraging public aggregation services like getdaytrends.com, the tool provides immediate insights into global or country-specific viral conversations. It parses live data to deliver either a human-readable, colorized table or structured JSON output, making it highly versatile for both manual research and automated programmatic pipelines.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your OpenClaw environment, ensure you have the OpenClaw CLI installed, then execute the following command in your terminal:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/anishtr4/x-trends

Once installed, you can invoke the tool directly from your terminal or via the OpenClaw agent interface to begin monitoring social sentiment.

Use Cases

This skill is ideal for content creators, marketers, and researchers. Content creators use it to identify viral themes for short-form video or blog posts. Digital marketers leverage it to gauge real-time audience sentiment and jump on trending hashtags for brand visibility. Researchers use the JSON output mode to feed social trend data into larger data analysis workflows, tracking how topics evolve over time across different geographical regions.

Example Prompts

1. "Check the current top 10 trends in the United States and summarize the potential themes for a marketing campaign."
2. "Fetch the global trending topics in JSON format so I can process them in my Python script later today."
3. "Show me the current trends for India and include the tweet volume for each topic to help me determine what is most viral right now."

Tips & Limitations

• Geographical Filtering: Always specify a country code if you need localized data; otherwise, the tool may default to a specific region like India.
• Rate Limiting: Since the skill relies on public aggregators, excessive automated requests in very short intervals might trigger rate limits on the backend source.
• Data Accuracy: Remember that this tool reflects trends as captured by the aggregator. It does not provide private account data or direct access to the official X API, ensuring high privacy for the user but slightly different granularity compared to enterprise-grade social listening platforms. Use the --json flag whenever integrating with external tools to maintain clean data structures.