---
title: "A Trend"
method: GET
path: "/api/trends/{id_or_slug}"
tags: ["trends"]
---

# A Trend

`GET /api/trends/{id_or_slug}`

Retrieve details of a single trend using either its numeric ID or unique slug.

### Usage Guidance:
- Useful for loading details of a trending topic (description, score, and slug details) to render header sections on trending tag or topic pages.

## Path parameters

- `id_or_slug` string, required

## Response `200`

A Trend

- object

## Other responses

- `404` — Trend Not Found

## Changes

> 59 revisions in range; 4 could not be searched.

- **2026-07-13** (v1) `189b62b952ea` — 1 breaking
  - removed the media type `application/json` for the response with the status `404`
- **2026-07-13** (v1) `7db6ba099285` — 1 breaking
  - removed the media type `application/json` for the response with the status `404`
- **2026-05-28** (v1) `6550ad7be94f` — 1 info
  - endpoint added
- **2023-01-10** (v1) `754f8b25f815` — 1 breaking
  - api path removed without deprecation

[Change history](https://skmtc.dev/forem/apis/forem-api-v1/changes/api/trends/:id_or_slug/get.md)

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