HookTrend MCP

Let your AI find what's breaking out in your niche.
The TikTok and YouTube videos pulling many times their creator's usual views, from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or n8n.

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One URL

https://hooktrend.com/api/mcp

Remote MCP server over Streamable HTTP. Sign in with OAuth when your app asks (dynamic client registration, PKCE), or send a HookTrend API key as Authorization: Bearer <key>. A free account needs no card and includes 25 library reads a day.

This repository holds no server code. It packages that URL for each client: a thin skill, plugin manifests and the MCP Registry entry.

Add it to your AI

Claude (web and desktop)

1. Open Settings → Connectors and click Add custom connector.
2. Name it HookTrend and paste https://hooktrend.com/api/mcp.
3. Click Connect and sign in.

ChatGPT (Plus, Pro and Business)

1. Open Settings → Apps & Connectors → Advanced and turn on Developer mode.
2. Click Create, name it HookTrend, paste https://hooktrend.com/api/mcp and pick OAuth.
3. Sign in, then switch HookTrend on from the + menu in a new chat.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http hooktrend https://hooktrend.com/api/mcp

Then type /mcp, pick hooktrend and choose Authenticate.

Or install the plugin (MCP server + skill) from this repo:

claude plugin marketplace add SaasKitchen/hooktrend-mcp
claude plugin install hooktrend@hooktrend

Cursor

One click: Add HookTrend to Cursor

Or open Cursor Settings → MCP → New MCP server and paste:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hooktrend": { "url": "https://hooktrend.com/api/mcp" }
  }
}

Then click Connect next to HookTrend and sign in. This repo is also a Cursor plugin (.cursor-plugin/plugin.json, mcp.json, skills/).

Codex

codex mcp add hooktrend --url https://hooktrend.com/api/mcp
codex mcp login hooktrend

Or in ~/.codex/config.toml:

[mcp_servers.hooktrend]
url = "https://hooktrend.com/api/mcp"

n8n (AI Agent node)

1. In HookTrend, create a key in Settings → API keys.
2. In your AI Agent node, add the MCP Client tool and paste https://hooktrend.com/api/mcp.
3. Choose HTTP Streamable and Bearer Auth, then paste your key.

Then just ask

• "What's breaking out on TikTok this week?"
• "What's working in cooking right now?"
• "Find small creators blowing up with protein breakfast videos."
• "Watch Spanish home workouts for me every Monday."
• "How many credits do I have?"

Answers come back as real videos with their × usual score: the video's views divided by the creator's usual views per video. A 40,000-view video from a 2,000-view account is a 20× outlier, so small creators surface next to big ones.

Tools

Tool	What it answers	Cost
whats_breaking_out	What's breaking out right now	Free (daily read cap)
niche_outliers	Outliers in one niche	Free (daily read cap)
find_videos	Videos on any topic, ranked by × usual	Free (daily read cap)
find_creators	Creators behind a topic's outliers	Free (daily read cap)
list_niches	Available niches	Free (daily read cap)
niche_report	Outliers, creators, sounds and hashtags of a niche	Free (daily read cap)
trending_sounds	Rising sounds and their lifecycle	Free (daily read cap)
trending_hashtags	Rising hashtags and their lifecycle	Free (daily read cap)
lookup_creator	Study a TikTok or YouTube account	Free if already analyzed; 8 credits for a fresh analysis, after your yes
create_research_agent	Research agent that watches a brief's keywords	Proposal free; 15 credits per run, after your yes
list_agents	Your research agents	Free
get_agent_report	An agent's latest report	Free
get_agent_data	An agent's videos, creators, sounds, hashtags or runs	Free
show_outliers	Outlier cards (MCP Apps widget in Claude and ChatGPT)	Free
get_balance	Plan, credits and limits	Free
estimate_cost	Cost of an action before you run it	Free

Anything that costs credits returns a quote first and spends nothing. It only runs when the same call comes back with user_approved: true, after you say yes. The live list, with example calls and responses, is at hooktrend.com/docs/mcp.

Prefer a dashboard?

The same research agents and library live in the app at hooktrend.com.

Pricing

Plan	Price	Credits a month	Includes
Free	$0, no card	50	1 research agent (weekly), every library tool, 25 reads a day
Starter	$29/month	1,000	Agents on any cadence, 500 reads a day, alerts, exports, fresh creator lookups
Pro	$99/month	4,000	Everything in Starter, 3 seats, reports with your brand

Current prices: hooktrend.com/#pricing.

What's in this repo

.claude-plugin/plugin.json        Claude Code plugin
.claude-plugin/marketplace.json   Claude Code marketplace (this repo)
.cursor-plugin/plugin.json        Cursor plugin
.codex-plugin/plugin.json         Codex plugin
.mcp.json                         MCP server for Claude Code and Codex
mcp.json                          MCP server for Cursor
skills/hooktrend/SKILL.md         Thin skill that routes trend questions to HookTrend
server.json                       Official MCP Registry entry

The skill is deliberately thin: it tells the assistant when to use HookTrend and defers everything else to the server's live instructions and the agent guide. The canonical copy is served at hooktrend.com/agents/SKILL.md (zip: hooktrend-skill.zip).

Coverage

TikTok and YouTube. Not Instagram.

Support

• Privacy: hooktrend.com/privacy
• Terms: hooktrend.com/terms
• Issues with this repo: GitHub issues

HookTrend is part of the Hooked suite.

License

MIT for the files in this repository. The HookTrend service is governed by its terms.