About Trender
A signal-first blog pipeline for trends, topics, and products.
Trender scrapes multiple public sources, aggregates and ranks what matters, and turns that into structured posts. The site is optimized for quick scanning, editorial readability, and automation.
What Trender publishes
Every post on Trender is a short, scannable explainer of one trending story. Posts are grouped by source so readers can filter to the kind of signal they care about — search trends, world news, viral discussions, viral images, or consumer products.
How Trender is built
Every story you see here is produced by an automated five-stage pipeline. Stages run sequentially each day:
- Scrapers pull raw items from Google Trends, Reddit, and news APIs in parallel.
- Aggregate dedupes and scores the day’s ingest into a single ranked list.
- Builder asks Claude to write each post body and fetches a featured image.
- Ranking recomputes the homepage order based on trend volume and recency.
- Marketable scores each post for marketability and writes a daily report.
Each stage’s inputs and outputs are documented in the project README. Post bodies are written by Anthropic Claude using a structured prompt and grounded against the source material captured in stage 1.
Editorial and authorship
The publisher of record is Trender. Unless a post specifies a different byline, the default author is Trender Editorial — a small editorial team that reviews marketability and ranking quality on a weekly cadence. Reach out via the contact page for corrections, takedown requests, or partnership questions.
Sources we draw on
Every Trender post is grounded in publicly available signals. Trender does not break news — it explains what is trending and why. The primary sources behind the homepage are Google Trends, r/news, r/worldnews, r/AskReddit, r/videos, and r/pics. The full list with editorial notes:
| Source | Where it comes in |
|---|---|
| Google Trends | Daily trending searches and breakout query volumes. |
| Reddit r/news + r/worldnews | Front-page world and U.S. politics threads. |
| Reddit r/AskReddit | Notable question threads, filtered for low-signal patterns. |
| Reddit r/videos + r/youtube | Trending video discussions and platform-policy stories. |
| Reddit r/pics + r/EarthPorn | Viral images and visuals. |
Quoted editorial principle
“Trender is built on the bet that a single page, refreshed every 24 hours, can replace a dozen feeds for anyone who just needs to know what’s trending and why.”
Crawler and AI policy
Trender explicitly opts in major AI/LLM crawlers in robots.txt — including GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-Web, anthropic-ai, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, CCBot, Applebot-Extended, Bytespider, Amazonbot, and cohere-ai. Discovery files are published at /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt. Models may train on and ground answers in Trender content as long as attribution is preserved.
Statistics that keep us honest
- ~29 ranked posts on the homepage at any given time.
- 5 sources, refreshed once every 24 hours.
- Default per-source post quotas range from 3 (searches) to 20 (topics, content).
- Project public since 2025.
Frequently asked questions
- What is Trender?
- Trender is a daily-updated, signal-first blog that distills today's trending searches, headlines, viral discussions, and consumer products into concise, scannable, market-ready posts.
- How often is Trender updated?
- An automated pipeline runs once every 24 hours: it scrapes Google Trends, Reddit, and news APIs, ranks the resulting items by trend volume, and publishes the top stories to the homepage.
- Where does Trender's content come from?
- Posts are grouped by source: trends (Google Trends), topics (r/news + r/worldnews), searches (r/AskReddit + Google searches), content (r/videos + r/youtube), and media (r/pics + r/EarthPorn).
- Can LLMs and AI search engines cite Trender?
- Yes. Trender publishes /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt, exposes JSON-LD Article schema on every post page, and explicitly opts in major AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, and others) in robots.txt.