Trends Skill
Description
Enables the agent to fetch trending topics from Google Trends and top headlines from major news portals for a specific country. The skill provides context explaining WHY each topic is trending.
Trigger
Activate this skill when the user:
- •Asks about trending topics, trending news, or what's hot
- •Wants to know what's happening in a specific country (BR, ES)
- •Requests Google Trends data
- •Uses phrases like "what's trending", "news today", "trending in Spain/Brazil"
Supported Countries
| Country | Code | News Portals |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | BR | G1, Folha de S.Paulo, UOL, Estadão |
| Spain | ES | El País, El Mundo, La Vanguardia |
Workflow
Step 1: Fetch Google Trends
Use web_fetch to get real-time trending searches from Google Trends:
For Brazil:
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web_fetch: https://trends.google.com/trending?geo=BR&hours=24
For Spain:
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web_fetch: https://trends.google.com/trending?geo=ES&hours=24
If the above doesn't work, use web_search:
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web_search: "Google Trends [country] today site:trends.google.com"
Or fetch the RSS feed:
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web_fetch: https://trends.google.com/trending/rss?geo=BR web_fetch: https://trends.google.com/trending/rss?geo=ES
Step 2: Get Context for Trends
For each top trend (limit to 5-10), search for context:
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web_search: "[trend topic] news today why trending"
This helps explain WHY the topic is trending (sports result, political event, celebrity news, etc.)
Step 3: Fetch Headlines from News Portals
Use web_fetch to get headlines from each portal:
Brazil:
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web_fetch: https://g1.globo.com/ web_fetch: https://www.folha.uol.com.br/ web_fetch: https://www.uol.com.br/ web_fetch: https://www.estadao.com.br/
Spain:
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web_fetch: https://elpais.com/ web_fetch: https://www.elmundo.es/ web_fetch: https://www.lavanguardia.com/
Extract the main headline (usually the first H1 or prominent article).
Step 4: Format Output
Present the results in this exact format:
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🔥 TRENDING TOPICS - [PAÍS] - [DATA] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📊 GOOGLE TRENDS 1) [Assunto #1] → [Explicação de 2-3 linhas sobre por que está em alta] 2) [Assunto #2] → [Explicação de 2-3 linhas] 3) [Assunto #3] → [Explicação de 2-3 linhas] [... até 5-10 trends] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📰 MANCHETES PRINCIPAIS 🔹 G1: [Título da manchete] [Resumo em 1-2 linhas] 🔗 [link] 🔹 Folha: [Título da manchete] [Resumo em 1-2 linhas] 🔗 [link] [... demais portais] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Parameters
| Parameter | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| country | Yes | - | Country code: BR or ES |
| portals | No | All | List of portals to check |
| limit | No | 5 | Number of trends to show |
Cron Jobs Configuration
This skill is designed to run as scheduled cron jobs:
Spain Daily Trends
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Schedule: Every morning 8:00 CET Country: ES Portals: El País, El Mundo, La Vanguardia
Brazil Daily Trends
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Schedule: Every morning 9:00 BRT Country: BR Portals: G1, Folha, UOL, Estadão
Example Interactions
User: "O que está em alta no Brasil hoje?"
Agent:
- •
web_fetch: Google Trends RSS for BR - •
web_search: Context for each top trend - •
web_fetch: Headlines from G1, Folha, UOL, Estadão - •Format and present results
User: "Trending topics in Spain"
Agent:
- •
web_fetch: Google Trends RSS for ES - •
web_search: Context for each top trend - •
web_fetch: Headlines from El País, El Mundo, La Vanguardia - •Format and present results
User: "Just give me Google Trends for Brazil"
Agent:
- •Fetch only Google Trends (skip news portals)
- •Provide context for each trend
- •Format output (trends section only)
Tools Used
| Tool | Purpose |
|---|---|
web_fetch | Get Google Trends RSS/page, fetch news portal homepages |
web_search | Search for context explaining why topics are trending |
Error Handling
| Issue | Solution |
|---|---|
| Google Trends unavailable | Use web_search as fallback |
| Portal blocked/timeout | Skip and note in output |
| No trends found | Report and check alternative sources |
Best Practices
- •Always provide context - Don't just list trends, explain WHY they're trending
- •Be concise - 2-3 lines per trend explanation is ideal
- •Include links - Always link to the news source
- •Time-sensitive - Trends change fast, always note the date/time
- •Respect limits - Don't overload with too many requests
- •Language matching - Use Portuguese for BR, Spanish for ES
News Portal Reference
Brazil
| Portal | URL | Type |
|---|---|---|
| G1 | https://g1.globo.com/ | General news (Globo) |
| Folha | https://www.folha.uol.com.br/ | Traditional newspaper |
| UOL | https://www.uol.com.br/ | Portal/aggregator |
| Estadão | https://www.estadao.com.br/ | Traditional newspaper |
Spain
| Portal | URL | Type |
|---|---|---|
| El País | https://elpais.com/ | Major newspaper |
| El Mundo | https://www.elmundo.es/ | Major newspaper |
| La Vanguardia | https://www.lavanguardia.com/ | Catalan newspaper |
Output Example
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🔥 TRENDING TOPICS - BRASIL - 09/02/2025
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📊 GOOGLE TRENDS
1) Flamengo x Palmeiras
→ Clássico decisivo pelo Campeonato Brasileiro acontece hoje
no Maracanã. Times disputam a liderança da tabela.
2) Selic
→ Banco Central anuncia nova taxa de juros. Mercado reagiu
com volatilidade após decisão do Copom ontem.
3) Carnaval 2025
→ Preparativos para o carnaval dominam notícias com ensaios
das escolas de samba e divulgação dos blocos de rua.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
📰 MANCHETES PRINCIPAIS
🔹 G1: Copom mantém Selic em 13,75% e sinaliza cortes em 2025
Decisão unânime do comitê mantém juros estáveis pelo 4º mês consecutivo
🔗 https://g1.globo.com/economia/noticia/...
🔹 Folha: Lula anuncia pacote de investimentos em infraestrutura
Governo prevê R$ 50 bilhões para rodovias e ferrovias
🔗 https://www.folha.uol.com.br/mercado/...
🔹 UOL: Flamengo e Palmeiras decidem liderança em clássico
Jogo no Maracanã tem ingressos esgotados
🔗 https://www.uol.com.br/esporte/...
🔹 Estadão: Inflação desacelera em janeiro, mas alimentos pesam
IPCA registra 0,42% no mês
🔗 https://www.estadao.com.br/economia/...
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