MCP server · TikTok + YouTube
Ask your AI what's breaking out. It answers with real outliers.
HookTrend finds the TikTok and YouTube videos breaking out in any niche: the ones getting many times their creator's usual views. Add it to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Claude Code with one URL and ask from there.
MCP server URL
https://staging.hooktrend.com/api/mcpFree account, no card: every library tool, 25 reads a day. Sign in once when your app asks.
01Setup
Pick your app. Four steps at most.
Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and Claude Code sign in with the URL alone. Everything else uses an API key.
Claude on the web and Claude Desktop.
- Open Settings → Connectors and click Add custom connector.
- Name it HookTrend and paste the URL:
https://staging.hooktrend.com/api/mcp - Click Connect, sign in to HookTrend and click Allow.
- Optional: Download the skill and upload it in Settings → Capabilities, so Claude reaches for HookTrend on its own.
02Ask it
Ask it the way you'd ask a strategist.
Each question lands on one tool. The answer leads with the pattern, then the videos with their × usual.
What's working in cooking on TikTok right now?
Calls niche_outliers
This month's cooking outliers, best first:
Dinner for our son home from college@seattlehanddoc8.7M vs 422.5K usual20.6×
Sugar cookie cinnamon rolls@sugarspiceddreams16.6M vs 1.3M usual12.6×
Sloppy joe buns@kookmutsjes14.1M vs 2.6M usual5.5×
Anything blowing up this week I should know about?
Calls whats_breaking_out
The biggest breakouts right now, each scored against its creator's usual views:
Quail so small they stay tiny as adults@fathenfarms7.8M vs 272.1K usual28.8×- Dinner for our son home from college@seattlehanddoc8.7M vs 422.5K usual20.6×
- Sugar cookie cinnamon rolls@sugarspiceddreams16.6M vs 1.3M usual12.6×
Track Spanish home-workout videos for me every Monday.
Calls create_research_agent
Here is the proposal: the keywords I'd search, weekly, 15 credits a run (about 60 a month). Shall I start it?
Example proposal
- rutina en casa
- ejercicio sin equipo
- entreno para mamás
- cardio en casa
15 credits a run · weekly
Nothing is spent until you say yes. Our own test run, one keyword: 20 videos scored, 3 outliers found, 15 credits.
Example answers with real outliers from the HookTrend library
03Tools and costs
Free to explore. You approve anything that costs.
Library tools cost nothing and count toward a daily read cap. Paid tools quote their price first and only run after you say yes. 1 credit = $0.03.
| Tool | What it answers | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Discover | ||
| whats_breaking_out | What's breaking out | Free |
| niche_outliers | Outliers in a niche | Free |
| find_videos | Find videos | Free |
| list_niches | List niches | Free |
| niche_report | Niche report | Free |
| trending_sounds | Trending sounds | Free |
| trending_hashtags | Trending hashtags | Free |
| Creators | ||
| find_creators | Find creators | Free |
| lookup_creator | Look up a creator | Free if saved · 8 cr new |
| Research agents | ||
| create_research_agent | Create a research agent | 15 cr / run |
| list_agents | List research agents | Free |
| get_agent_report | Agent report | Free |
| get_agent_data | Agent data | Free |
| In the chat | ||
| show_outliers | Show outlier cards | Free |
| Account | ||
| get_balance | Balance and plan | Free |
| estimate_cost | Estimate cost | Free |
* Counts toward the daily read cap: 25 reads a day on the free plan, 500 on paid plans.
Full reference with example calls04Skill and guide
A skill that never goes stale.
The skill tells your assistant when to reach for HookTrend. The how lives in the live guide, so it improves without a reinstall.
- Skill for ClaudeOne SKILL.md, routing only.
/agents/hooktrend-skill.zip - Agent guideWhich tool, what to show, costs, errors.
/agents/guide.md - llms.txtEverything above, for any LLM.
/llms.txt
Start free. Connect in a minute.
No card. Research agents come with Starter ($29/month).