Pull Reddit Hot Posts and Wikipedia Trending in one Trends MCP account, then join shortened post titles against article titles, search indexes, and news follow-ups.
Live data as of 2026-08-27
A Reddit Hot Posts versus Wikipedia Trending comparison on Trends MCP is two get_top_trends calls: type Reddit Hot Posts and type Wikipedia Trending. From the August 27, 2026 pull, both boards stamped 2026-08-27T20:01:33 UTC. Hot Posts returned 25 titles at limit 50, then count 0 at offset 25. Wikipedia returned 50 rows at offsets 0, 50, 100, and 150, filling ranks 1 through 200, then count 0 at offset 200. Hot Posts rank 1 was Potraits with my three new babies, reprinted as returned. Wikipedia rank 1 was Dolly Parton. RIP Dolly and Tim sat at Hot Posts rank 20. Dollywood sat at Hot Posts rank 23 and Wikipedia rank 17. Same-stamp 1d rank_change returned count 0 on Hot Posts and count 42 on Wikipedia. Free tier access is 100 requests per month.
From the Trends MCP scan of August 27, 2026, Reddit Hot Posts and Wikipedia Trending both stamped 2026-08-27T20:01:33 UTC, Hot Posts closed at 25 titles, and Wikipedia filled 200, so a default limit 25 join sees the whole Hot Posts board and never sees that Wikipedia keeps paging.
| Rank | Reddit Hot Posts (short) | Wikipedia Trending |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Potraits with my three new babies | Dolly Parton |
| 2 | Meirl | Tim Curry |
| 3 | Group narrowly escapes massive flood | Toxic (2026 film) |
| 4 | Elephant rescues man from a flood in India | List of Tim Curry performances |
| 5 | Alyssa Rosenzweig reverse-engineered Apple M1 GPU | Kuku Kohli |
| 6 | I might be dumb, but please explain what that means | Deaths in 2026 |
| 7 | Boyfriend using anti depressants to hold a PC together | Stella Parton |
| 8 | Tiny lizard in the bathroom | Rachel Parton George |
| 9 | Shop keeper | Randy Parton |
| 10 | That GTA 6 leaker is priority (sarcasm) | Hayden Panettiere |
| 11 | SDU Soft Robotics worm-inspired robot | Kyle Singler |
| 12 | This phrase has been chosen | I Will Always Love You |
Hot Posts ranks 13 through 24 included Peter Cullen, the voice of Optimus Prime, at 15, RIP Dolly and Tim at 20, one of Dolly's final appearances at Dollywood at 23, and Amazon customer service at 24. Rank 25 was skipped in this reprint because the raw title trips a first-person filter. Wikipedia ranks 13 through 25 included Kenny Rogers at 13, Spider-Man: Brand New Day at 14, Dollywood at 17, 2026-27 UEFA Champions League at 23, and Neatsville, Kentucky at 25. ChatGPT sat at Wikipedia rank 42 and App Store Top Free rank 1 on the same 20:01 stamp, and still missed Hot Posts 25. Google Trends rank 1 matched Wikipedia rank 1 as dolly parton. Google Trends rank 2 matched Wikipedia rank 2 as tim curry.
The Reddit Hot Posts API page still describes an August 3, 2026 scan with a Mark Hamill marriage post at rank 1. This pull closed at 25 with Potraits at rank 1. Length 25 held. The leaderboard did not.
Two get_top_trends calls against the same Trends MCP key return Reddit Hot Posts and Wikipedia Trending as separate ranked lists, and REST mode get_top_trends bills each type and each page as its own request, so confirming Hot Posts at offset 25 plus paginating Wikipedia through offset 200 is six requests before any get_growth follow-up.
{"mode": "get_top_trends", "type": "Reddit Hot Posts", "limit": 50, "offset": 0}
{"mode": "get_top_trends", "type": "Wikipedia Trending", "limit": 50, "offset": 0}
MCP clients send the same fields on get_top_trends. Type strings are exact: Reddit Hot Posts is correct; Reddit Hot is not a valid Trends MCP type. Wikipedia Trending is the live pageview board, not the wikipedia keyword source on get_growth. Offset and limit behavior for both feeds is on get_top_trends pagination. For the Google Trends sibling, see Reddit Hot Posts vs Google Trends. The current-rank Wikipedia board is documented on the Wikipedia Trending API page.
Post titles mix image-board jokes, truncated news, and sarcasm. Article titles do not. A production join needs an alias table, not lowercase equality on the raw row.
Exact string matching on Hot Posts 25 versus Wikipedia 200 returned zero shared rows, and topic joins still recovered Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, Dollywood, and Grand Theft Auto VI, so a desk that only diffs identical strings will report an empty overlap on a day when both boards are covering overlapping entertainment news.
| Topic | Reddit Hot Posts | Wikipedia | Off-board check |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolly Parton | ranks 20, 23 | rank 1, plus family, song, and Dollywood pages | Google Trends rank 1; missed News 38 |
| Tim Curry | rank 20 | rank 2, plus List of Tim Curry performances at 4 | Google Trends rank 2; News rank 26 |
| Dollywood | rank 23 | rank 17 | Wiki 1d climber, prev 27, +10 |
| Grand Theft Auto VI | rank 10 | rank 157 | Google Trends rank 34 gta 6 netflix; X rank 4; News rank 19 |
| Peter Cullen | rank 15 | none in 200 | Google Trends rank 5; X rank 2; News rank 23 |
| Flood videos | ranks 3, 4 (rank 4 names India) | rank 38 2026 Nepal floods; rank 66 Nepal | Google Trends rank 3 nepal; News rank 2 |
| ChatGPT | none in 25 | rank 42 | App Store Top Free rank 1 |
| Amazon | rank 24 | none in 200 | Jeff Bezos at Wiki rank 85 |
| Lake Ontario | none in 25 | rank 39 Donald Trump | News rank 1; X rank 1; Google Trends rank 14 |
| Lindsay Clancy | none in 25 | rank 57 Killing of the Clancy children | News rank 7; Google Trends rank 19; X rank 73 |
| Nvidia | none in 25 | none in 200 | Google Trends rank 10 nvidia stock; News rank 15 |
| Yayoi Kusama | none in 25 | none in 200 | Google Trends rank 15; News rank 24; X rank 90 |
wikipedia source get_growth for 2026 Nepal floods returned no_data on this run, even though that title sat at live rank 38. Live rank is not a get_growth guarantee. The Hot Posts flood rows are not a confirmed Nepal join: rank 4 names India, and rank 3 does not name a country. Quote them as flood videos, not as the Wikipedia article.
google search for dolly parton sat at 1.0 on 2026-08-22, flat over 7 days from 1.0. The 30D percent was omitted because baseline_value was 0.0. wikipedia for Dolly Parton 7D returned collapsed_range (49 monthly points); 30D used recent_date 2026-07-01 at 17.8, up 24.48% from 14.3, volume 674 versus 556. Tim Curry on google search sat at 0.0 on both 7D and 30D. peter cullen on google search sat at 0.0 on both windows. youtube for peter cullen sat at 3.0, up 50.0% over 7 days from 2.0 and down 25.0% over 30 days from 4.0. google news for peter cullen sat at 0.0 on both windows, with a low-quality warning that the series is over 90% zeros. That weekly 0.0 sat next to Google News Top News rank 23, a Peter Cullen obituary headline. ChatGPT on google search sat at 79.0, up 5.33% over 7 days from 75.0 and up 5.33% over 30 days from 75.0. gta 6 sat at 37.0, up 164.29% over 7 days from 14.0 and up 184.62% over 30 days from 13.0. nepal sat at 18.0, down 10.0% over 7 days from 20.0 and down 28.0% over 30 days from 25.0. lake ontario sat at 14.0, down 17.65% over 7 days from 17.0.
A newsroom loop that trusts Wikipedia pageview leaders as a proxy for Reddit Hot Posts will miss Peter Cullen at rank 15 and the GTA 6 leaker joke at rank 10. The reverse proxy misses ChatGPT at Wikipedia rank 42 and the 2026 Nepal floods article at rank 38.
sort rank_change on the same 20:01 stamp returned count 0 on Reddit Hot Posts and count 42 on Wikipedia Trending, so a 1d climber pull is not interchangeable across a front-page post board and a pageview board even when both feeds are daily.
Hot Posts 1d used baseline 2026-08-27T00:01:30 UTC, an 00:01 clock, and returned a held-or-fell note. Wikipedia 1d used 2026-08-27T02:01:32 UTC and was led by 2026-27 UEFA Europa League at rank 78, prev_rank 179, rank_change 101, then UEFA Champions League at rank 99, prev_rank 190, rank_change 91, then Onam at rank 35, prev_rank 125, rank_change 90. Dollywood sat on that Wikipedia climber list at rank 17, prev_rank 27, rank_change 10, matching Hot Posts rank 23. Hot Posts 3d returned count 0 with a complete-turnover note versus 2026-08-25T00:01:40 UTC. Hot Posts 7d returned count 0 with a complete-turnover note versus 2026-08-20T18:01:43 UTC. Hot Posts 30d returned count 0 with a complete-turnover note versus 2026-07-29T00:01:33 UTC. Same count 0 on every Hot Posts window. Two note texts. 1d held or fell. 3d, 7d, and 30d turned over completely. Read the note. Do not treat those empty lists as one failure mode.
Default sort rank still answers who is on the board now. rank_change answers who moved. On this stamp those are different questions, and they disagree across the two feeds.
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