TrendRadar

Scan social media and communities to detect product trends rising or peaking, helping time purchases or avoid declining items.

Security Scan

The skill's files, scripts, and runtime instructions are consistent with its stated purpose: a browser-driven trend scanner that scrapes public social/community pages and surfaces commercial signals; it does not request credentials or install extra software.

Purpose & Capability

Name/description, README, package.json, and the two scripts all describe and implement the same behavior: navigating public social/community pages, extracting trend signals, and feeding results into downstream shopping skills. No unrelated credentials, binaries, or install steps are requested.

Instruction Scope

SKILL.md and the scripts instruct the agent to use a browser tool and web_search to open specific external URLs (Xiaohongshu, Weibo, Reddit, Google Trends, Product Hunt, etc.) and extract trend metrics. That is within the declared purpose, but it means the agent will actively browse many third‑party pages and follow an open-ended extraction process (select top N items, apply heuristics). The instructions also call other skills (BuyWise, CouponClaw) via openclaw run. No instructions attempt to read unrelated local files or environment variables.

Install Mechanism

No install specification or third‑party downloads are present; package.json has no dependencies. The skill is instruction-driven with light JS helper scripts that print guidance. There is no code that fetches or executes remote archives.

Credentials

The skill declares no required env vars or credentials, which fits its 'no API keys' approach. However, it explicitly relies on the agent's browser tool to visit sites: if that browser tool has access to the user's authenticated sessions/cookies, the agent could see account‑restricted content. Also, results are intended to be fed to other skills (BuyWise/CouponClaw), so consider trust boundaries between skills even though no secrets are requested here.

Persistence & Privilege

The skill is not marked always:true, does not request persistent system changes, and includes no steps to modify other skills' configuration or store new credentials.

Assessment

This skill appears to do what it claims (browse public social/community pages and surface trending products) and does not ask for credentials or install software. Before installing, consider: 1) The skill uses the agent's browser tool to visit many third‑party sites — if that browser has access to your logged‑in sessions or cookies, the skill could see private content; run it in an isolated session or disable access to sensitive cookies if you are concerned. 2) Scraping may run afoul of site terms, trigger CAPTCHAs, or generate high traffic; use responsibly. 3) The skill calls other skills (BuyWise, CouponClaw) — review those skills separately before allowing automated chaining. 4) If you do not want the agent to autonomously browse or invoke other skills, restrict its permissions or require manual invocation.

Scan social media and communities to detect trending products before they peak — then act on them with BuyWise and CouponClaw.

TrendRadar monitors 小红书, 微博, Reddit, Google Trends, and Product Hunt in real time. It assigns a trend direction (↑↑ surging / ↑ rising / → stable / ↓ cooling) and a commercial signal to each item, so you know whether to buy now, wait, or skip.

What TrendRadar does differently

Most tools show you what's already popular. TrendRadar shows you what's about to peak — so you can get the best price before demand drives it up, or avoid buying into something already fading.

It is the upstream signal source for the entire ecosystem:

• Feed trending products into BuyWise for price and review analysis
• Feed trending stores into CouponClaw for coupon and cashback stacking
• Daily briefing surfaces the top 3 most commercially interesting trends each morning

Trigger phrases

• "什么在爆"
• "最近什么在火"
• "小红书在推什么"
• "Reddit trending"
• "今日爆款"
• "热销商品"
• "trending products"
• "what's hot right now"
• "what's going viral"
• "trending on TikTok"
• "trending on xiaohongshu"
• "hot items"

Scripts

Script	Command	Description
scan.js	node scripts/scan.js [keyword/category] [--region cn|us|global|all] [--lang zh|en]	Scan social platforms for trending products related to a keyword, or scan all categories if no keyword given
daily-hot.js	node scripts/daily-hot.js [--region cn|us|global|all] [--lang zh|en]	Generate full daily trending briefing across all categories (for cron push)

To schedule a daily push, add a cron job directly:

openclaw cron add --schedule "0 0 8 * * *" --cmd "node scripts/daily-hot.js --region all --lang zh" --channel telegram

Trend signals explained

Direction	Meaning	Commercial action
↑↑ Surging	>200% growth in 7 days	Buy before price rises
↑ Rising	50-200% growth in 7 days	Good timing — more competition = better deals
→ Stable	High volume, growth slowing	Safe choice, no urgency
↓ Cooling	Declining 3+ days	Wait for price drop

Ecosystem integration

TrendRadar (signal)
    ↓
BuyWise (analysis: price / reviews / buy timing)
    ↓
CouponClaw (action: coupons + cashback stacking)

TrendRadar is also called by:

• NewsToday — surfaces trending consumer products from the news feed
• GiftRadar (planned) — uses trending items to inform gift recommendations

Data sources

Platform	Region	What it tracks
小红书 (Xiaohongshu)	CN	Post volume, engagement velocity
微博热搜	CN	Search trend ranking
什么值得买	CN	Save/comment growth rate
抖音热榜	CN	Viral product videos
Reddit	US/Global	Upvotes, post frequency
Google Trends	Global	Search volume trajectory
Product Hunt	US/Global	New product launches

No API required

TrendRadar uses browser navigation to read live platform data directly. No API keys needed.