01 What velocity means
Every hashtag, creator and sound we track gets scored on how fast it's moving, not how big it already is.
velocity — how fast an entity's numbers (views, followers, uses) are climbing over a time window. A small account gaining fast outranks a big account standing still.
Scores exist per time window — 6h, 24h, 72h, 7d. Shorter windows catch spikes (a video that just took off in the last few hours); longer windows catch sustained climbs (a creator that's been steadily growing all week). Pick the window that matches what you're trying to catch.
The leaderboards on this page are TikTok. Instagram trends are hashtags only today, and they're scoped to your niches rather than platform-wide — pass entity_type=ig_hashtag to the niche trending endpoints. See Niches → Niche intel.
Every request on this page needs Authorization: Bearer <API_KEY>. A few endpoints below will answer without one — but send it on every call and you never have to think about which ones.
02 Hottest right now
One call, one answer to "what is blowing up right now?" — hashtags, creators and sounds mixed together, ranked by their last-hour climb plus acceleration.
curl -s "https://api.metrix.ac/api/v1/hot?limit=10" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $TM_API_KEY"
{
"entity_type": "hashtag",
"window": "1h",
"results": [
{ "entity_type": "creator", "entity_id": "adidas", "display_name": "adidas",
"metrics": { "views": 8583472 } }, // ← ranked by views for creators/sounds
// ...more entities, mixed types...
]
}
Mixed types come back sorted the same list: hashtags by 1h velocity, creators and sounds by view volume. Pass ?entity_type= to restrict to one type.
03 Trending by type
One canonical leaderboard serves creators, sounds, and hashtags. Put the type in the path and optionally scope the result to one visible niche.
Use hashtag, creator, or sound for TikTok leaderboards. window is one of 6h, 24h, 72h, or 7d; unsupported values return 400. The former 1-hour choice is not available here—use /hot for the 1-hour pulse.
curl -s "https://api.metrix.ac/api/v1/velocity/sound?window=24h&topic_id=food_cooking&limit=5" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $TM_API_KEY"
{
"entity_type": "sound",
"window": "24h",
"status": "available",
"status_reason": null,
"total": 1,
"results": [
{ "entity_id": "7626892220234943253", "entity_type": "sound",
"velocity": 530434.78, // ← flat, window-scoped metric
"acceleration": -46124.76, "momentum": 1102840.23,
"size_tier": "large", "is_hot": false }
]
}
topic_id uses the same catalog visibility gate as niche reads. A stale source does not serve old rows: the envelope returns status: "not_available", status_reason: "stale_source", and an empty results list.
04 Trending videos
The actual videos behind the numbers above — not just an entity score, but the clips themselves, with view/like/share counts and the hashtags each one used.
curl -s "https://api.metrix.ac/api/v1/trending/videos?topic_id=food_cooking&limit=5" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $TM_API_KEY"
{
"videos": [
{ "video_id": "7581714645912718623",
"creator_handle": "yum.bubs", "views": 269400000, "likes": 4600000,
"hashtags": ["aiasmr", "asmr", "eating", "satisfyingvideo"], "has_media": true }
],
"total": 5,
"filters": { "topic_id": "food_cooking" }
}
| Param | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
topic_id | string | Filter to one of your niches, e.g. food_cooking. One of topic_id, hashtags, or creator is required. |
hashtags | string | Comma-separated, e.g. gym,fitcheck. Pair with match=any (default) or match=all. |
creator | string | Username, with or without @. |
sort | enum | Default views. One of views, likes, relative_score (views vs. that creator's own average). |
min_relative_score | float | e.g. 3.0 = video did 3× the creator's average — an overperformer filter. |
since | ISO 8601 | Only videos discovered after this timestamp. Ignored if a valid time_range is also set. |
time_range | enum | 24h, 7d, 30d — overrides since. |
tier | enum | Creator follower tier: nano, micro, mid, macro, mega. |
min_views / max_views | int | View-count bounds. |
min_followers / max_followers | int | Creator follower-count bounds. |
verified | bool | Restrict to verified creators. |
require_media | bool | Default false. Set true to only get videos we've downloaded and can stream back — a smaller, playable subset. |
limit | int | Default 15, max 50. |
05 Niche leaderboards
Drill into one leaderboard hit, or use the dedicated niche routes for leaders and up-and-comers inside a visible topic.
Spot something on a leaderboard and want the full picture? This returns the same entity's numbers for every window at once, so you can tell a spike from a sustained climb.
curl -s "https://api.metrix.ac/api/v1/velocity/hashtag/relationships" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $TM_API_KEY"
{
"entity_type": "hashtag",
"entity_id": "relationships",
"windows": {
"24h": { "velocity": 128541.43, "acceleration": -12262.94, // ← spike or slowing?
"pct_change": 2.38, "rank_velocity": 10 },
"7d": { "velocity": 252702.69, "acceleration": 3273.04, "rank_velocity": 25 }
}
}
Pass ?window= to get just one window instead of all four.
Everything from /velocity/{entity_type} above, pre-filtered to a single registry-visible niche.
curl -s "https://api.metrix.ac/api/v1/niches/food_cooking/trending?entity_type=hashtag&limit=5" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $TM_API_KEY"
{
"entity_type": "hashtag",
"window": "24h",
"results": [
{ "entity_id": "relationships", "velocity": 128541.43, // ← the niche's #1 climber
"acceleration": -12262.94, "size_tier": "xl", "rank_velocity": 10 },
{ "entity_id": "icecream", "velocity": 53176.04, "acceleration": 670.55, "size_tier": "medium" }
]
}
Filters to rising entities and sorts by acceleration instead of raw velocity. Results span all size tiers by default; pass ?tier=nano when you specifically want the former nano-only view.
curl -s "https://api.metrix.ac/api/v1/niches/food_cooking/rising?entity_type=hashtag&limit=5" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $TM_API_KEY"
{
"entity_type": "hashtag",
"window": "24h",
"results": [
{ "entity_id": "chipotlehack", "velocity": 0.0, "acceleration": 0.0, // ← nano-tier, hasn't moved yet
"size_tier": "nano", "rank_velocity": 5088 }
]
}
Optional ?tier= values are nano, micro, mini, small, medium, large, and xl.