News Trends API
GET/v1/newssignals/trending/people
People with the biggest attention spike against their 30-day baseline: Wikipedia daily pageviews blended with news coverage, classified through Wikidata occupations into celebrity, politics, sport, business or other. Only people with a Wikipedia article and a Wikidata id are ever listed. Refreshes every 60 minutes.
Price
$0.015/ callEdge cache
1800s
Uptime 24h
100.00%
p95
291ms
MCP tool
newssignals_trending-people
The News Trends API provides signals derived from GDELT's 15-minute global news coding, including tone in basis points, mention volume, novelty, and trending for various entities. The API offers data on trending people and topics ranked by attention spike, as well as the 50 most-covered stories per window. The data is refreshed every 60 minutes and can be accessed through a GET request to the /trending/people endpoint.
Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| category | query | string | celebrity, politics, sport, business, other |
| window | query | string = 24h | |
| limit | query | integer = 20 |
Code
# 1. No key, no payment: the gateway answers 402 with the price
curl -i "https://api.realtimeapi.ai/v1/newssignals/trending/people"
# 2. Pay: retry with a signed x402 payment (any x402 client builds this header)
curl "https://api.realtimeapi.ai/v1/newssignals/trending/people" -H "PAYMENT-SIGNATURE: $X402_PAYMENT"// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/core @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment } from "@x402/fetch";
import { x402Client } from "@x402/core/client";
import { ExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";
const client = x402Client.fromConfig({ schemes: [{ network: "eip155:8453", client: new ExactEvmScheme(privateKeyToAccount(PRIVATE_KEY)) }] });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);
const data = await (await pay("https://api.realtimeapi.ai/v1/newssignals/trending/people")).json();
console.log(data);# pip install "x402[requests,evm]==2.27.0" eth-account
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact import register_exact_evm_client
client = x402ClientSync()
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(PRIVATE_KEY)))
session = x402_requests(client)
print(session.get("https://api.realtimeapi.ai/v1/newssignals/trending/people").json())curl "https://api.realtimeapi.ai/v1/newssignals/trending/people" -H "X-API-Key: $RTAPI_KEY"Frequently asked questions
What is the price of the API?
$0.015 per request
What is the refresh rate of the data?
Every 60 minutes
What parameters are available for the /trending/people endpoint?
Category, window, and limit