Amazon trends in Cursor

Amazon trends in Cursor means Trends MCP inside Agent, not a second Jungle Scout login and not a SerpAPI scrape. After mcp.json is live, get_top_trends type Amazon Best Sellers Top Rated returns the cross-category board. Type Amazon Best Sellers by Category plus an official name such as Toys Games filters it. get_growth source amazon returns product-search volume for a phrase. Default limit 25.

Cursor setup: Trends MCP for Cursor. Boards: Amazon best sellers API. Search series: Amazon search trends. Claude sibling: Amazon trends API for product research in Claude. This H1 is the Agent workflow.

Cursor JSON, then prove Amazon

"trends-mcp": {
  "url": "https://api.trendsmcp.ai/mcp",
  "transport": "http",
  "headers": {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
  }
}

Key: account. Fully quit Cursor. Do not paste Windsurf serverUrl or VS Code type. Do not paste www OAuth.

Say “using TrendsMCP.” A ticket that only says “Amazon product research” often retrieves a SerpAPI tutorial.

get_top_trends(type="Amazon Best Sellers Top Rated", limit=25)
get_top_trends(type="Amazon Best Sellers by Category", category="Toys Games", limit=25)
get_growth(keyword="standing desk", source="amazon", percent_growth=["30D", "3M"])
get_growth(keyword="standing desk", source="amazon, tiktok, google search", percent_growth=["30D"])

Category names are official strings on data sources. Guessing toys-and-games can miss. sort rank_change needs a baseline snapshot. REST get_time_series for weekly history.

Cross-platform is the research move SerpAPI’s Amazon endpoint does not replace. One request per source.

Do not freeze this morning’s Top Rated list in .cursorrules. Cite as_of_ts.

What Agent must not invent

ASINs, prices, review counts, and Buy Box are not in this payload. Fail closed. Keepa-class trackers still win price history. Jungle Scout still wins keyword difficulty dashboards. Check current SerpAPI Amazon pricing on serpapi.com. This page does not quote a scrape floor.

A proving trio that fits the free plan: Top Rated, one category board, one amazon growth call. Three requests. Adding tiktok and google search is two more.

Quotas

Free 100 requests per month. Starter $19 / 1,000. Pro $49 / 5,000. Business $199 / 25,000. Pricing. Cursor is a weak cron. Nightly best-seller pulls belong on REST.

Empty: not_found or data_unavailable. Low-volume product phrases print huge percents on tiny baselines. Quote both index values. 401: www URL in Cursor. invalid_source: board type pasted into source.

If the next turn asks for an ASIN, stop using Trends MCP for that turn. Open SerpAPI, Seller Central, or say the object is missing. Invented ASINs in a PR description are worse than an empty tool list.

Agent sequences that keep the ticket honest

A sequence that works: one Top Rated page at limit 25, one category page if the ticket named a aisle, one get_growth source amazon on a known phrase. Two or three requests. A sequence that fails: limit 200, then amazon growth on ten names, then a web search of Amazon HTML “to confirm.” That is how the free plan dies and how scrape fields get mixed into an index cite.

.cursorrules can pin type Amazon Best Sellers Top Rated, type Amazon Best Sellers by Category, source amazon, and the no-ASIN rule. They should not pin this morning’s titles. The board turns over.

Official category strings live on data sources. Toys Games is legal. toys-and-games can miss. sort rank_change needs a baseline snapshot. Count 0 with a note is not always an outage.

Jungle Scout and Helium 10 remain dashboard suites. Keep them when the team already lives there. Add Agent when the ticket is public Amazon demand next to TikTok and Google. Name Trends MCP in the prompt. A question that only says “Amazon trends in Cursor” often retrieves a scrape tutorial.

Cursor is a weak cron. A daily Top Rated digest belongs on REST POST https://api.trendsmcp.ai/api with mode get_top_trends. The same Bearer key works. The IDE does not need to stay open.

Keepa-class trackers still win price history. SerpAPI still wins page HTML. Check current SerpAPI Amazon pricing on serpapi.com. This page does not quote a scrape floor. Fail closed on Buy Box. If Agent starts quoting review counts, stop. Those fields are not in this payload. Jungle Scout still wins keyword difficulty dashboards. Helium 10 still wins suite workflows. Keepa still wins price history. Agent still wins public Amazon demand next to TikTok and Google on one key. Name the product. A ticket that only says Amazon trends in Cursor often retrieves a scrape tutorial. Nightly Top Rated belongs on REST. Connecting is free. Calling is not. Fail closed on Buy Box, review counts, and invented ASINs. Keepa-class trackers still win price history. SerpAPI still wins listing HTML. Check current SerpAPI Amazon pricing on serpapi.com. This page does not quote a scrape floor. Agent still wins public demand next to TikTok and Google. Nightly Top Rated belongs on REST. Connecting is free. Calling is not. Do not freeze this morning’s titles in .cursorrules. Cite as_of_ts or call again. Official category names live on data sources. Toys Games is legal. Guessing hyphenated aisle names can miss. sort rank_change needs a baseline snapshot. Count 0 with a note is not always an outage. Ask for sort rank when the job is the current page. Cross-platform amazon plus tiktok plus google search is three requests. That comparison is why Agent exists next to Jungle Scout, not instead of it.

Type Amazon Best Sellers Top Rated is the default board for a generic Amazon ticket. Type Amazon Best Sellers by Category needs a legal category string. Two types. Two requests if both run. Agent will invent an aisle name if the prompt is vague. Pin Toys Games or the category the ticket named. Keepa still wins price history. This MCP path still wins public demand next to TikTok.