🚀 New Video: How I Use Claude Code To Find Viral Topics First

I built a system that scans Twitter, news websites, and YouTube every morning — filters out the noise, clusters duplicate coverage into stories, and scores everything by relevance. No more doomscrolling 10 tabs to stay informed.

In this video I show the full system live and walk you through building your own. Here's the quick setup guide:

1. Connect your data sources

Claude Code supports external tools through MCP and API integrations. For this system you need:

Apify — scrapes Twitter/X accounts and YouTube channels. Get an API key at apify.com, add it to your .env as APIFY_API_KEY. Claude Code calls Apify actors via REST API to pull tweets and video metadata + transcripts.

Firecrawl — scrapes any website (blogs, news sites). Get an API key at firecrawl.dev, add it as FIRECRAWL_API_KEY. Claude Code uses it to grab article content from pages like techcrunch.com, openai.com/news, etc.
Kie AI — (optional) for generating visual assets from your trend data. Add as `KIE_AI_API_KEY`.

2. Define your sources

Create a list of Twitter accounts and websites relevant to YOUR niche. Mine are 10 Twitter accounts (@OpenAI, @AnthropicAI, @karpathy, @sama, etc.) and 5 news sites. You can track any industry — crypto, biotech, marketing, whatever.

3. Write a Claude Code slash command

Create a file at `.claude/commands/trends.md` that tells Claude to:

- Fetch latest posts from your Twitter accounts (via Apify)

- Scrape your news websites (via Firecrawl)

- Filter to news only (drop opinions and commentary)

- Cluster items about the same event into stories

- Score each story 1-10 for relevance to your niche

Then just run /trends in Claude Code and it does everything.

4. Generate a web interface

Ask Claude Code to build you a simple Next.js page that displays your stories grouped by day, sorted by score. Mine has color-coded badges (green = high relevance, gray = low), expandable source lists, and voting buttons so the system learns what I care about over time.

The whole thing took one afternoon to build. Claude Code wrote all the scripts, the API endpoints, and the frontend. I just defined what sources I wanted and how I wanted the output to look.

Full walkthrough in the video 👇

PS. Yes, guys, the community is back 😁

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