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API key

API key engagements are up XXXXX% this week, with X leading in mentions and engagements. Discussions highlight both the critical need for API key security and the growing trend towards alternatives.

About API key

API keys are credentials used to authenticate requests to an application or service, often for programmatic access.

Insights

• api key engagements is up XXXXX% from the previous week.

Engagements: XXXXXX (24h)

Engagements 24-Hour Time-Series Raw Data
Current Value: XXXXXX
Daily Average: XXXXXXX
X Week: XXXXXXX +14%
X Month: XXXXXXXXX -XX%
X Months: XXXXXXXXXX -XX%
X Year: XXXXXXXXXX +91%
1-Year High: XXXXXXXXX on 2025-07-16
1-Year Low: XXX on 2025-12-08

Engagements by network (24h): Reddit: XXX TikTok: XXXXX X: XXXXXX YouTube: XXXXXX

Mentions: XXX (24h)

Mentions 24-Hour Time-Series Raw Data
Current Value: XXX
Daily Average: XXX
X Week: XXX -XX%
X Month: XXXXX +21%
X Months: XXXXXX +34%
X Year: XXXXXX +143%
1-Year High: XXX on 2025-10-14
1-Year Low: XX on 2025-12-08

Mentions by network (24h): Reddit: XXX TikTok: XXX X: XXX YouTube: XXX

Creators: XXX (24h)

Creators 24-Hour Time-Series Raw Data
XXX unique social accounts have posts mentioning API key in the last XX hours which is down XXXX% from XXX in the previous XX hours Daily Average: XXX
X Week: XXX -XX%
X Month: XXXXX +5.10%
X Months: XXXXXX +28%
X Year: XXXXXX +121%
1-Year High: XXX on 2025-11-25
1-Year Low: XX on 2025-12-08

The most influential creators that mention API key in the last XX hours

Creator	Rank	Followers	Posts	Engagements
@grok	X	XXXXXXXXX	X	X

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Sentiment: XX%

Sentiment 24-Hour Time-Series Raw Data
Current Value: XX%
Daily Average: XX%
X Week: XX% -XX%
X Month: XX% +2%
X Months: XX% +2%
X Year: XX% +16%
1-Year High: XXX% on 2025-11-03
1-Year Low: XX% on 2025-07-09

Most Supportive Themes:

• API Key Management & Security: (30%) Discussions focus on the secure generation, management, and potential vulnerabilities of API keys, highlighting their ongoing importance in various applications.
• AI Integration & Development: (25%) Many posts focus on how API keys facilitate the integration of AI models and tools, enabling developers to build and deploy AI-powered applications.
• Web3 & Blockchain Applications: (20%) The use of API keys in decentralized applications, blockchain platforms, and Web3 development is a recurring theme, showcasing their role in this evolving ecosystem.

Most Critical Themes:

• API Key Elimination & Alternatives: (15%) There's a notable discussion about moving away from traditional API keys towards more streamlined payment and authorization methods like x402, suggesting a potential shift in industry standards.
• Security Risks & Leaks: (10%) Concerns about API key leaks and the associated security risks remain a critical issue, with users sharing best practices and warnings.

Top API key Social Posts

Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

Showing only X posts for non-authenticated requests. Use your API key in requests for full results.

"What SaaS has the best developer experience for installing a gem in Rails getting you an API key and have their service working in production in under X minutes"
X Link @bradgessler 2025-12-12T19:01Z 4223 followers, XXX engagements

"29 GenAI L4 🤖⚡ ✔ AI Agent = LLM + tools (LLM decides tool + arguments) ✔ Server (question + context) LLM ✔ API = service 🚪 API key = 🔑 ✔ LLM Never Answer❌ LLM Choose Tool✅ ✔ UI LLM direct call nahi (API key & system instructions leak) #GenAI @rohit_negi9"
X Link @ShreyG0e1 2025-12-12T18:13Z X followers, XXX engagements

"gridmorning. the grind does not stop over the weekend. we apologize for the delays regarding Kalshi prediction markets trading. our update has been live for X days now but trading cannot be enabled without an API key from Dflow (already in process and has been for a few days now). we will be going live these next few days with a few features because the show must go on portfolio rework moneywatch market data (mc liquidity etc) trading configurations shotgun-mode buying/selling agentic trading previews"
X Link @griddotwtf 2025-12-12T17:12Z 1168 followers, XXX engagements

"A student was hit with a $55K Google Cloud bill after their Gemini API key leaked on GitHub"
X Link @Meer_AIIT 2025-12-12T15:39Z 40.2K followers, 4188 engagements

Topics List

https://lunarcrush.com/api4/public/topics/list/v1

Get a list of trending social topics.

Example request:

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer <API_KEY>" https://lunarcrush.com/api4/public/topics/list/v1

Example response:

{
  "data": [
    {
      "topic": "youtube",
      "title": "YouTube",
      "topic_rank": 1,
      "topic_rank_1h_previous": 1,
      "topic_rank_24h_previous": 1,
      "num_contributors": 300754,
      "num_posts": 300754,
      "interactions_24h": 2980779418
    }
  ]
}

Schema:

• topic: LunarCrush social topic. Can only includes letters, numbers, spaces, #, and $
• title: The case sensitive title of the topic or category
• topic_rank: LunarCrush metric for ranking a social topic relative to all other social topics
• topic_rank_1h_previous: The topic rank from X hour ago
• topic_rank_24h_previous: The topic rank from XX hours ago
• num_contributors: The number of unique social contributors to the topic
• num_posts: Total number of posts with interactions on this topic in the last XX hours
• interactions_24h: Number of interactions in the last XX hours

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Topic Whatsup

https://lunarcrush.com/api4/public/topic/:topic/whatsup/v1

Generate an AI summary of the hottest news and social posts for a specific topic

input parameters:

• topic: Provide the topic to get a summary for. A topic must be all lower case and can only include letters, numbers, spaces, # and $. required

Example request:

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer <API_KEY>" https://lunarcrush.com/api4/public/topic/bitcoin/whatsup/v1

Example response:

{
  "config": {
    "id": "bitcoin",
    "_self_call": true,
    "name": "Bitcoin",
    "symbol": "BTC",
    "topic": "bitcoin",
    "generated": 1765476931
  },
  "summary": "Bitcoin experienced a sharp drop below $XXXXXX following the FOMC meeting, attributed to profit-taking and leveraged long liquidations, despite some positive institutional interest.",
  "supportive": [
    {
      "title": "Institutional Adoption & Investment",
      "description": "Major financial institutions and influential figures are increasingly investing in and integrating Bitcoin, signaling growing mainstream acceptance and potential for future price appreciation.",
      "percent": XX
    }
  ],
  "critical": [
    {
      "title": "Regulatory Uncertainty & Scrutiny",
      "description": "Ongoing regulatory discussions and potential crackdowns by governments worldwide create uncertainty and pose risks to Bitcoin's adoption and market stability.",
      "percent": XX
    }
  ]
}

Schema:

• config: This includes the inputs for the request processed by the server and may include additional hints about the request and response information.
• id: LunarCrush internal ID for the asset
• name: The full name of the asset
• symbol: The symbol for the asset
• topic: LunarCrush social topic. Can only includes letters, numbers, spaces, #, and $
• generated: A unix timestamp (in seconds) when the data was generated to understand possibly stale data
• supportive: An array of supportive themes with a title, description, and an estimate of the percent of the circulating conversations on social around this theme.
• title: The case sensitive title of the topic or category
• description: Explanation of the change and the potential impact
• critical: An array of critical themes with a title, description, and an estimate of the percent of the circulating conversations on social around this theme.

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Topic Time Series

https://lunarcrush.com/api4/public/topic/:topic/time-series/v1

Get historical time series data for a social topic

input parameters:

• topic: Provide the topic to get details for. A topic must be all lower case and can only include letters, numbers, spaces, # and $. required
• bucket: bucket time series data into hours or days. default is hours.
• interval: Use interval to specify the start and end time automatically for convenience. If "start" or "end" parameters are provided this parameter is ignored.
• start: The start time (unix timestamp) to go back to.
• end: The end time (unix timestamp) to stop at.

Example request:

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer <API_KEY>" https://lunarcrush.com/api4/public/topic/bitcoin/time-series/v1

Example response:

{
  "config": {
    "topic": "bitcoin",
    "id": "bitcoin",
    "_self_call": true,
    "name": "Bitcoin",
    "symbol": "BTC",
    "interval": "1w",
    "start": 1764806400,
    "end": 1765493023,
    "bucket": "hour",
    "metrics": [],
    "generated": 1765485823
  },
  "data": [
    {
      "time": 1764806400,
      "contributors_active": 23704,
      "contributors_created": 1429,
      "interactions": 2850530,
      "posts_active": 46702,
      "posts_created": 2732,
      "sentiment": 79,
      "spam": 5826,
      "alt_rank": 215,
      "circulating_supply": 19957250,
      "close": 93033,
      "galaxy_score": 53,
      "high": 93033,
      "low": 92735.28,
      "market_cap": 1856638537230,
      "market_dominance": 58.4039,
      "open": 93033,
      "social_dominance": 28.896,
      "volume_24h": 77427662033
    }
  ]
}

Schema:

• config: This includes the inputs for the request processed by the server and may include additional hints about the request and response information.
• topic: LunarCrush social topic. Can only includes letters, numbers, spaces, #, and $
• id: LunarCrush internal ID for the asset
• name: The full name of the asset
• symbol: The symbol for the asset
• interval: Typically used for specifying time intervals like 1w = X week, 1m = X month etc
• start: Start/from unix timestamp (in seconds)
• end: End/to unix timestamp (in seconds)
• bucket: Data is generally bucketed into hours or days
• metrics: Comma separated list of metrics to include or that are included
• generated: A unix timestamp (in seconds) when the data was generated to understand possibly stale data
• time: A unix timestamp (in seconds)
• contributors_active: number of unique social accounts with posts that have interactions
• contributors_created: number of unique social accounts that created new posts
• interactions: number of all publicly measurable interactions on a social post (views, likes, comments, thumbs up, upvote, share etc)
• posts_active: number of unique social posts with interactions
• posts_created: number of unique social posts created
• sentiment: % of posts (weighted by interactions) that are positive. XXX% means all posts are positive, XX% is half positive and half negative, and X% is all negative posts.
• spam: The number of posts created that are considered spam
• alt_rank: A proprietary score based on how an asset is performing relative to all other assets supported
• circulating_supply: Circulating Supply is the total number of coins or tokens that are actively available for trade and are being used in the market and in general public
• close: Close price for the time period
• galaxy_score: A proprietary score based on technical indicators of price, average social sentiment, relative social activity, and a factor of how closely social indicators correlate with price and volume
• high: Higest price fo rthe time period
• low: Lowest price for the time period
• market_cap: Total dollar market value of all circulating supply or outstanding shares
• market_dominance: The percent of the total market cap that this asset represents
• open: Open price for the time period
• social_dominance: The percent of the total social volume that this topic represents
• volume_24h: Volume in USD for XX hours up to this data point

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Topic Time Series

https://lunarcrush.com/api4/public/topic/:topic/time-series/v1

Get historical time series data for a social topic

input parameters:

• topic: Provide the topic to get details for. A topic must be all lower case and can only include letters, numbers, spaces, # and $. required
• bucket: bucket time series data into hours or days. default is hours.
• interval: Use interval to specify the start and end time automatically for convenience. If "start" or "end" parameters are provided this parameter is ignored.
• start: The start time (unix timestamp) to go back to.
• end: The end time (unix timestamp) to stop at.

Example request:

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer <API_KEY>" https://lunarcrush.com/api4/public/topic/bitcoin/time-series/v1

Example response:

{
  "config": {
    "topic": "bitcoin",
    "id": "bitcoin",
    "_self_call": true,
    "name": "Bitcoin",
    "symbol": "BTC",
    "interval": "1w",
    "start": 1764806400,
    "end": 1765493023,
    "bucket": "hour",
    "metrics": [],
    "generated": 1765485823
  },
  "data": [
    {
      "time": 1764806400,
      "contributors_active": 23704,
      "contributors_created": 1429,
      "interactions": 2850530,
      "posts_active": 46702,
      "posts_created": 2732,
      "sentiment": 79,
      "spam": 5826,
      "alt_rank": 215,
      "circulating_supply": 19957250,
      "close": 93033,
      "galaxy_score": 53,
      "high": 93033,
      "low": 92735.28,
      "market_cap": 1856638537230,
      "market_dominance": 58.4039,
      "open": 93033,
      "social_dominance": 28.896,
      "volume_24h": 77427662033
    }
  ]
}

Schema:

• config: This includes the inputs for the request processed by the server and may include additional hints about the request and response information.
• topic: LunarCrush social topic. Can only includes letters, numbers, spaces, #, and $
• id: LunarCrush internal ID for the asset
• name: The full name of the asset
• symbol: The symbol for the asset
• interval: Typically used for specifying time intervals like 1w = X week, 1m = X month etc
• start: Start/from unix timestamp (in seconds)
• end: End/to unix timestamp (in seconds)
• bucket: Data is generally bucketed into hours or days
• metrics: Comma separated list of metrics to include or that are included
• generated: A unix timestamp (in seconds) when the data was generated to understand possibly stale data
• time: A unix timestamp (in seconds)
• contributors_active: number of unique social accounts with posts that have interactions
• contributors_created: number of unique social accounts that created new posts
• interactions: number of all publicly measurable interactions on a social post (views, likes, comments, thumbs up, upvote, share etc)
• posts_active: number of unique social posts with interactions
• posts_created: number of unique social posts created
• sentiment: % of posts (weighted by interactions) that are positive. XXX% means all posts are positive, XX% is half positive and half negative, and X% is all negative posts.
• spam: The number of posts created that are considered spam
• alt_rank: A proprietary score based on how an asset is performing relative to all other assets supported
• circulating_supply: Circulating Supply is the total number of coins or tokens that are actively available for trade and are being used in the market and in general public
• close: Close price for the time period
• galaxy_score: A proprietary score based on technical indicators of price, average social sentiment, relative social activity, and a factor of how closely social indicators correlate with price and volume
• high: Higest price fo rthe time period
• low: Lowest price for the time period
• market_cap: Total dollar market value of all circulating supply or outstanding shares
• market_dominance: The percent of the total market cap that this asset represents
• open: Open price for the time period
• social_dominance: The percent of the total social volume that this topic represents
• volume_24h: Volume in USD for XX hours up to this data point

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