# Trends MCP — tool skill for research & trends

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Live Google Trends plus growth data from TikTok, YouTube, Amazon, Reddit and 30+ sources.

- **Type:** [Tool](https://skills.varg.ai/models.md) · [Research & trends](https://skills.varg.ai/browse/skills/research.md)
- **Slug:** `trends-mcp`
- **Status:** live
- **Publisher:** Trends MCP (vendor)
- **License:** MIT
- **Source:** https://github.com/trendsmcp-ai/google-trends-mcp
- **Works in:** Claude Code, Cursor, Any MCP client
- **Requires:** Trends MCP API key (free tier)
- **Adoption:** 16 GitHub stars (GitHub, 2026-10-26)

## What it does

A hosted MCP server for search-interest data: volume, breakout keywords and five-year history from Google Trends, plus growth signals from TikTok, YouTube, Amazon, Reddit and more. Use it to check whether a topic is still rising before you build a video on it.

## Use when

- Is this topic still rising?
- Find breakout keywords around a niche
- Compare interest across platforms

## Install

- Claude Code: `claude mcp add --scope user --transport http trends-mcp https://api.trendsmcp.ai/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"`

## More research & trends skills

- [Video Skills Finder](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/video-skills.md): Finds the right skill for any AI video, image, voice or music job here and shows you the visual options.
- [Apify MCP](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/apify-mcp.md): Thousands of ready scrapers behind one MCP: TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, hashtags, sounds.
- [TwelveLabs Video Understanding](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/twelvelabs.md): Semantic search and analysis across your video library from Claude Code.
- [Civitai MCP](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/civitai-mcp.md): Top AI images and videos with prompts and base models, plus model search.
- [Hugging Face MCP](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/huggingface-mcp.md): Trending models, Spaces and papers from Hugging Face inside your agent.
- [Exa Search MCP](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/exa-mcp.md): Neural web search and crawling for research agents.