---
title: "Trends"
method: GET
path: "/api/trends"
tags: ["trends"]
---

# Trends

`GET /api/trends`

Retrieve a list of active trends.

### Trends Overview & Score Calculation:
- Trends represent hot topics or semantic themes currently being heavily discussed in the community.
- They are computed by clustering semantic concept embeddings of recently published articles.
- The `score` reflects the volume and engagement (views, comments, reactions) of articles associated with the trend.
- Returned trends are ordered by score and recency.
- Publicly accessible without authentication.

It supports pagination, each page will contain 10 trends by default.

## Query parameters

- `page` integer
- `per_page` integer

## Response `200`

A List of Trends

- Trend[]
  - `type_of` string, required
  - `id` integer, required
  - `name` string, required
  - `slug` string, required
  - `description` string, nullable
  - `key_questions` string[], required
  - `score` number, float, required
  - `articles_count` integer, required
  - `cover_image` string, url, nullable
  - `first_observed_at` string, date-time, required
  - `last_observed_at` string, date-time, required
  - `created_at` string, date-time, required
  - `updated_at` string, date-time, required

## Changes

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- **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/get.md)

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