HonestHook Trends API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: HonestHook Trends API
  version: 1.0.0
  description: Profiles and posts from the major social networks, through one API. One key, one response shape; rate limits, retries and platform changes are on us. Clean JSON for your app or your AI agent. We read the exact field each platform publishes, and return null when none exists. Plus a historical trend archive that answers what was trending, which cannot be reconstructed after the fact.
  contact:
    url: https://honesthook.com
  license:
    name: Proprietary
    url: https://honesthook.com/docs
servers:
- url: https://honesthook.com
security:
- bearerAuth: []
tags:
- name: Trends
paths:
  /api/v1/trends/{niche}:
    get:
      operationId: nicheTrends
      summary: Historical series for one niche, grouped by item
      x-credits: 1
      x-charges-without-result: true
      description: 'Grouped by ITEM, not by window. A window is how the archive stores; an item with a series is how the question is asked. Capped at 5000 series points and a 90-day span, both enforced in the database. When the cap is hit, `truncated` is true and the series is incomplete — narrow the interval rather than drawing conclusions from a partial series.


        An unknown niche is NOT a 404: nothing validates the name, so a typo returns `items: []` with `points: 0` — AND still spends a call, because the quota counter increments before the archive is read. Resolve niche names at `/api/v1/nichos` first.'
      parameters:
      - name: niche
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
        example: ai-agents
      - name: from
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        description: ISO 8601. Defaults to 7 days ago.
      - name: to
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        description: ISO 8601. Defaults to now.
      - name: limit
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
        description: Hint only. The hard cap lives in the database and a larger value here does not raise it.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
          headers:
            X-RateLimit-Limit:
              schema:
                type: integer
            X-RateLimit-Remaining:
              schema:
                type: integer
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  niche:
                    type: string
                  from:
                    type: string
                    format: date-time
                  to:
                    type: string
                    format: date-time
                  points:
                    type: integer
                  truncated:
                    type: boolean
                  credits_charged:
                    type: integer
                  paid_from:
                    type: string
                    enum:
                    - free
                    - balance
                    description: 'Which pocket paid: the monthly free allowance or purchased credits.'
                  free_used:
                    type: integer
                  free_total:
                    type: integer
                  credits_balance:
                    type: integer
                  items:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      $ref: '#/components/schemas/Item'
        '400':
          description: Malformed interval
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiError'
        '401':
          description: Missing or invalid key
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiError'
        '429':
          description: Monthly quota exhausted. The body carries `limit` and `renews_at`.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiError'
      tags:
      - Trends
components:
  schemas:
    ApiError:
      type: object
      required:
      - erro
      properties:
        error:
          type: string
          enum:
          - chave_ausente
          - chave_invalida
          - intervalo_invalido
          - parametro_invalido
          - sem_creditos
          - teto_estourado
          - endpoint_indisponivel
          - metodo_invalido
          - indisponivel
        message:
          type: string
        http:
          type: integer
          description: Echoed by errors that originate in the database. The real HTTP status is authoritative — do not branch on this field.
        limit:
          type: integer
        renews_at:
          type: string
          format: date
        credits_balance:
          type: integer
          description: '`sem_creditos` only: credits left on the key.'
        needed:
          type: integer
          description: '`sem_creditos` only: credits the call would cost.'
        spent_this_month:
          type: integer
          description: '`teto_estourado` only: credits spent this month.'
        cap:
          type: integer
          description: '`teto_estourado` only: the monthly ceiling.'
    Item:
      type: object
      properties:
        external_id:
          type: string
        title:
          type: string
        url:
          type: string
          format: uri
        platform:
          type: string
          example: hackernews
        entered_at:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        left_at:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          format: date-time
          description: null while the item is still in the ranking.
        best_position:
          type: integer
        movement:
          type: integer
          description: 'Oldest position minus newest. Positive means it climbed. Read this together with `points` in the series: a change of position with no change in points is a tie reshuffle, not a trend.'
        series:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/SeriesPoint'
    SeriesPoint:
      type: object
      description: One observation of one item, in one hourly window.
      properties:
        window:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          description: Rounded to the hour. This is the bucket, not the exact capture time — two runs in the same hour share a window.
        position:
          type: integer
          description: 1 = top of the ranking.
        points:
          type:
          - integer
          - 'null'
        comments:
          type:
          - integer
          - 'null'
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: 'API key, sent as `Authorization: Bearer hk_live_...`. Quota is monthly and renews on the 1st. Unused quota does not roll over and does not expire mid-cycle — you get the whole month.'