Social Media Trends Research

This is a zero-cost research stack that combines pytrends for Google Trends data, public Reddit JSON endpoints, and Perplexity MCP queries to track what's gaining traction across platforms. You get keyword velocity, rising queries that flag breakout topics, Reddit discussion monitoring, and Twitter/TikTok trend analysis without touching a single paid API. The skill includes rate limiting guardrails and actual working code snippets for each tool. Use it when you need to find content gaps before writing, validate if a topic is heating up, or discover what's going viral in your niche this week. Pairs well with content strategy skills since this handles the executable research side.