Pick a niche - cricket, Bollywood, festivals, startups, finance, tech - and get a short brief on Telegram, Slack or email: what Indians are searching on Google, what's trending on YouTube India, and which hashtags are picking up.
This is a real brief from the morning of 24 Sep 2026. Topics show up in English, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil and more - exactly how India searches. New topics are marked [NEW] so you only read what changed.
Built for Indian creators, social media managers and small agencies who post on the day's trend - Diwali drops, cricket finals, IPO days, a film release, the monsoon.
Today's trending Google searches in India plus YouTube India's trending chart, filtered to your niche. Runs on a timer and only flags what's new since the last brief.
python -m trend_radar india --niche cricketWatches live public hashtag timelines and flags the ones that suddenly show up 2x more than the last run. Your early-warning system for a topic about to pop.
python -m trend_radar watch --every 60Four sources, stacked from "works out of the box" to "bring your own access". What people search and watch in India is usually what lands on Reels next.
Trending searches in India right now, approximate volume, and the top news headline behind each spike.
NO ACCOUNTIndia's most-popular videos chart - views, channels, tags. One brief costs 1 unit of the free daily quota.
FREE API KEYLive public hashtag timelines. Mostly a global crowd, so treat it as an early signal, not Indian numbers.
NO ACCOUNTOfficial Graph API hashtag data for those who already have a Business/Creator account and Meta app access.
META APP REVIEWFourteen built-in niches with English and Hindi keywords. Anything else works as a keyword, and you can add your own brand names, cities and Hindi words in config.yaml.
Python, pip, and one config file. Times in every brief are in IST.
# clone and install git clone https://github.com/codewithatindra/insta-trend-radar.git cd insta-trend-radar pip install -r requirements.txt cp config.example.yaml config.yaml # everything trending in India right now python -m trend_radar india # only cricket python -m trend_radar india --niche cricket # a fresh brief every 3 hours python -m trend_radar india --niche festivals --every 180
Create a bot with @BotFather and drop briefs straight into a team group.
Any incoming webhook URL works - point it at your content channel.
Any SMTP server. Gmail works with an app password.
Prints to the terminal by default. Zero setup.
Meta has no free, keyless way to read hashtag data. The only legit path is the Graph API, which needs a Business/Creator account and Meta's App Review. This tool never logs in as you and never scrapes Instagram.
It isn't a documented API, so Google could change it one day. If it ever fails, a run just carries on with the other sources - nothing breaks silently.
Their users are mostly outside India. Useful to see a hashtag forming before it arrives here - not a measure of Indian volume.
Free, open source, MIT licensed. Built in India, for the way India searches.