# btcnode.uk Reddit Trending – r/popular Hot Posts

> btcnode.uk Reddit Trending – r/popular Hot Posts is a paid API for AI agents from btcnode.uk, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-11).

Fetches the current hot posts from Reddit's r/popular, returning what Reddit is trending right now across all communities.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://btcnode.uk/api/reddit/trending?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-11
- Success rate: 0% of calls made through Zero
- Rating: 5.0 / 5 from 1 review
- Activations on Zero: 1
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/btcnode-uk-2c60d899
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_qUp2gTF1aaM2Ohg0oQQdi

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability btcnode-uk-2c60d899
```

Example prompt: What's trending on Reddit right now? Show me the hot posts from r/popular — titles, scores, and how many comments they have.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a quick, no-API-key snapshot of what is currently trending across Reddit as a whole (r/popular). Prefer this over subreddit-specific endpoints when the user wants a broad cross-community view of hot content rather than posts from a single community.

## Known failure modes

- Reddit rate limiting or downtime causing fetch failure
- Empty result set if r/popular is temporarily unavailable
- Payment required (402) if x402 USDC payment is not included
- Network timeout if Reddit upstream is slow

## How this service works

Trending from r/popular — flat $0.001 per call, USDC on Base, no signup.

## Output

A list of hot posts from Reddit's r/popular feed, including post titles, upvote scores, comment counts, authors, post URLs, and the originating subreddit for each entry.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "count": 25,
  "posts": []
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/btcnode-uk-2c60d899/health.json
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- [Other services from btcnode.uk](https://www.zero.xyz/host/btcnode.uk/llms.txt)