---
title: "Trend Radar"
method: POST
path: "/api/tools/radar"
tags: ["Intelligence"]
---

# Trend Radar

`POST /api/tools/radar`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://twitr.sh`
- URL: `https://twitr.sh/api/tools/radar`
- Auth: none declared

Trending topics and breaking stories across tech, dev, science, business, culture, politics, and entertainment — aggregated from multiple public sources with regional and time-window filters. Flat sub-cent price per call; the cheap first stop for what is happening right now.

## Request body

- object
  - `category` 'general' | 'tech' | 'dev' | 'science' | 'culture' | 'politics' | 'business' | 'entertainment': Topic category filter.
  - `region` string
  - `hours` integer
  - `limit` integer
  - `source` 'github' | 'google_trends' | 'hacker_news' | 'polymarket' | 'reddit' | 'trustmrr' | 'wikipedia': Trend source filter.
  - `after` string: Pagination cursor.

## Response `200`

Result dataset.

- object
  - `items` object[], required: Array of returned items. Shape varies per tool — see each tool's documentation.
  - `runId` string: Run ID for debugging/audit.
  - `duration` integer: Run duration in seconds.

## Other responses

- `202`: Async extraction accepted — body carries {snapshot_id, status_url} (x_extract only).
- `400`: Bad request — missing resultsLimit or Idempotency-Key where required. Body is a Problem with `retryable:false` and a `hint`; never charged.
- `402`: Payment Required. Per-result reads require x402 upto on Base: authorize the maximum and pay only for delivered records, with a $0.0024 non-empty minimum and zero for empty results. Fixed-price operations may additionally offer exact x402 and MPP.
- `403`: Acting handle not connected to this wallet — connect it via /api/x-accounts/start first; never charged.
- `404`: Unknown tool path — GET /openapi.json for the valid list; never charged.
- `429`: Rate limited — `retryable:true`; retry unchanged after the Retry-After header; never charged.
- `500`: Unexpected handler error — inspect payment receipt before retrying.
- `502`: Upstream provider error — `retryable:true`; inspect payment receipt before retrying; prepaid operations may already be charged.
- `503`: Service capacity temporarily unavailable — `retryable:true`; retry later; never charged.

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[API](https://skmtc.dev/twitr/apis/twitr-sh.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/twitr/apis/twitr-sh/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/twitr/apis/twitr-sh/revisions/f6390fcee344?raw)