Trending Stories

Definition
Trending Stories surfaces the top narratives being discussed in social data over a given time range.
For each story the metric returns:
title— short human-readable headlinesummary— a paragraph describing what the story is about, including explicit bullish and bearish takessearchText— an OR-joined search query (e.g.solana OR chainlink OR tether) that can be used to pull the underlying social postsscore— trending score, used to rank stories in descending orderbullishRatio/bearishRatio— bullish/bearish sentiment ratios computed over the posts related to the storyrelatedTokens— list of tokens inSYMBOL_slugform (e.g.BTC_bitcoin)
Access
The metric’s real-time data is free. The metric’s historical data has restricted access.
Measuring Unit
The score reflects how much social attention a story is getting. It has no
absolute qualitative meaning — the higher the score, the more a given story is
trending relative to the rest.
bullishRatio and bearishRatio are floats in the [0, 1] range describing
the bullish/bearish sentiment split of the social posts related to the story.
Data Type
Frequency
Trending Stories are available at hourly intervals
Latency
Trending Stories have social data Latency
Available Sources
Trending Stories can be computed per data source via the source argument:
TWITTER_CRYPTOTELEGRAM
How to Access
Sanbase
Trending Stories are available on the Trending Stories page.
SanAPI
Trending stories are available as part of the API, the metric is called
getTrendingStories:
{ getTrendingStories( from: "2026-01-01T12:00:00Z" to: "2026-01-01T13:00:00Z" size: 10 interval: "1h" source: TWITTER_CRYPTO ) { datetime topStories { title summary searchText score bullishRatio bearishRatio relatedTokens } }}