# 🍋 Lemon8 Trending Keywords Scraper (`ethereal_wool/lemon8-trending-keywords`) Actor

Extract Lemon8 trending keywords data — title, author, engagement, and more. Scrape by keyword, URL or ID. Export to JSON, CSV & Excel, use the API, schedule runs and integrate. No code required.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/ethereal\_wool/lemon8-trending-keywords.md
- **Developed by:** [Jackie Chen](https://apify.com/ethereal_wool) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Marketing
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 53.3% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$10.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Lemon8 Trending / Hot Search Keywords

![lemon8-trending-keywords](https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/48FFrfZnw5XqzUC1C/records/lemon8-trending-keywords__hero)

Fetch **Lemon8's live trending / hot search keywords**. Returns one clean,
structured item per keyword: the search term, its type, the source that surfaced it
(e.g. `hot_recom`, `recom_search`), its group ID, recall source, and labels such as
`hot` or `searched`.

> **Unofficial.** This Actor is not affiliated with, authorized, or endorsed by Lemon8
> or ByteDance. It is an independent tool that retrieves publicly available data via a
> third-party API. Use it in compliance with Lemon8's terms and all applicable laws;
> you are responsible for how you use the retrieved data.

### What it does

- Calls Lemon8's hot-search endpoint and returns the current trending keyword list.
- Each keyword comes with its metadata (type, source, group ID, recall source, labels).
- De-duplicates by keyword and ranks the output.

It is a lightweight trend-monitoring tool and a handy **keyword-seed feeder** for
Lemon8 post / hashtag scrapers: run it on a schedule, then feed the `query` values
into a search-based scraper.

### Input

The endpoint takes no search parameters — a bare run returns data immediately.

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `maxItems` | integer | `50` | Maximum number of trending keywords to return. Lemon8 currently surfaces ~10 hot words per request. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | off | Optional Apify Proxy routing for the upstream API calls. Usually not needed. |

#### Example input

```json
{ "maxItems": 50 }
```

(Or simply run with no input at all.)

### Output

One dataset item per trending keyword:

```json
{
  "rank": 1,
  "query": "cute easy hairstyles",
  "type": "plain",
  "source": "hot_recom",
  "groupId": "8432808072882778269",
  "recallSource": "search_again_recall,bg_search_history_recall",
  "labels": ["hot"],
  "queryLabels": [{ "label_type": "hot", "label_priority": 2, "query_type": "hot" }],
  "fetchSource": "hot_search_keywords"
}
```

### Notes

- Data is sourced live; the upstream edge occasionally rate-limits, so the Actor
  retries transient blocks with exponential backoff.
- Keywords are de-duplicated within a run.

# Actor input Schema

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of trending keywords to return. Lemon8 currently surfaces about 10 hot words per request; the Actor de-duplicates by keyword.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional. Route the upstream API calls through an Apify Proxy to vary the source IP. Usually not needed.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxItems": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "maxItems": 50
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("ethereal_wool/lemon8-trending-keywords").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "maxItems": 50 }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("ethereal_wool/lemon8-trending-keywords").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "maxItems": 50
}' |
apify call ethereal_wool/lemon8-trending-keywords --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,ethereal_wool/lemon8-trending-keywords"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/N8msGOzgWNqd6kn57/builds/bLHXwBeS0dupsw1iu/openapi.json