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Access trending topics, startups, websites, and blog posts from Exploding Topics via 8 structured endpoints with growth metrics, funding data, and category filters.
No input parameters required.
curl -X GET 'https://api.parse.bot/scraper/67aaa11a-d73d-4946-bffa-82a5760b2c39/get_categories' \ -H 'X-API-Key: $PARSE_API_KEY'
Get list of all topic categories and their counts. Returns a mapping of category names to the number of topics in each category.
No input parameters required.
{
"type": "object",
"fields": {
"beauty": "integer, topic count for category",
"automation": "integer, topic count for category",
"technology": "integer, topic count for category",
"lastUpdated": "integer, Unix timestamp of last update"
},
"sample": {
"data": {
"beauty": 101863,
"health": 293791,
"automation": 36831,
"technology": 207472,
"lastUpdated": 1778371202
},
"status": "success"
}
}About the explodingtopics.com API
The Exploding Topics API provides access to trending topics, startups, and websites across 8 endpoints, returning growth metrics, search history, category breakdowns, and startup funding data. The get_trending_topics endpoint supports filtering by category, volatility, and time period (3 to 60 months), while get_topic_detail returns per-slug data including social channel results, TikTok signals, and predictive regressions.
Trending Topics and Topic Detail
The get_trending_topics endpoint returns paginated trend objects with fields including keyword, growth, categories, path, and briefDescription. You can filter by categories (comma-separated), period (3, 6, 12, 24, or 60 months), volatile (stable, volatile, or all), and sort (growth or volume). To exclude topics that have already peaked, pass exclude_peaked=true. Pagination is 0-based via page and size parameters, and the response includes a total count for building pagination UIs.
For deeper analysis, get_topic_detail accepts a slug from the path field of any trending topic and returns the full trend object: searchHistory, regressions, socialChannelResults, productData, and predictive data. Note that very popular slugs may time out — the endpoint works most reliably with less common topics. Use get_related_topics with the same slug to retrieve semantically adjacent topics, each with their own growth, categories, and briefDescription.
Startups and Websites
get_trending_startups mirrors the topics pagination interface but returns startup-specific objects. Each includes a startupData object with location, website, funding, and employees, alongside growth and path fields. Sorting accepts gradient or volume. The get_top_websites endpoint takes no inputs and returns ranked website objects with engagement metrics — visits, pages per visit, bounce rate, and average duration — along with a display_date string indicating when the data was compiled.
Categories, Blog, and Homepage Snapshot
get_categories returns a flat mapping of category names (e.g., beauty, automation, technology) to integer topic counts, plus a lastUpdated Unix timestamp. get_blog_posts accepts an optional tag filter (e.g., featured) and returns post objects with title, body, summary, author, and tags, along with pagination metadata in the meta object. get_home_highlights bundles the top 3 trending topics, top 3 trending startups, and top websites into a single call, useful for dashboards that need a quick cross-section of the platform's current state.
- Monitor emerging consumer trends by filtering
get_trending_topicsby category and volatility to surface stable, high-growth topics. - Track startup momentum by pulling
get_trending_startupswith funding and employee data fromstartupDatafields. - Build a trend alert system using the
periodparameter to detect topics gaining traction over 3 or 6 months. - Enrich content strategy by matching blog posts from
get_blog_poststo trending topic slugs returned byget_trending_topics. - Benchmark website engagement by querying
get_top_websitesfor visits, bounce rate, and pages-per-visit metrics. - Power a market research dashboard with
get_home_highlightsto display a live cross-section of top topics, startups, and websites. - Discover adjacent opportunities by feeding slugs from
get_trending_topicsintoget_related_topicsand surfacing thematically connected trends.
| Tier | Price | Credits/month | Rate limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 100 | 5 req/min |
| Hobby | $30/mo | 1,000 | 20 req/min |
| Developer | $100/mo | 5,000 | 250 req/min |
One credit = one API call regardless of which marketplace API you call. Exceeding the rate limit returns a 429 response. Authenticate with the X-API-Key header.
Does Exploding Topics have an official developer API?+
What does the `period` parameter control in `get_trending_topics`, and which values are accepted?+
period parameter sets the time window used to calculate growth. Accepted integer values are 3, 6, 12, 24, and 60 (months). Omitting it returns results using the default period. The get_related_topics endpoint also accepts an optional period parameter.Can I retrieve historical search volume data for a specific topic?+
get_topic_detail returns a searchHistory array for the requested slug along with regressions data used for trend prediction. You must provide the slug from the path field returned by get_trending_topics, and note that very high-traffic slugs may time out.Does the API expose individual company profiles or investor-level startup data beyond what `get_trending_startups` returns?+
location, website, funding, and employees — within the startupData object, alongside growth and path identifiers. You can fork this API on Parse and revise it to add a dedicated startup detail endpoint if deeper per-company data is needed.Are there any known reliability quirks with `get_topic_detail`?+
get_topic_detail. The endpoint is more reliable with less common topics. If you encounter timeouts, try slugs from the mid or lower pages of get_trending_topics results rather than top-ranked entries.