What language would you like to use? I’m not clear why you think there’s a cost to using the API, certainly platforms like the one you’ve mentioned may have their own charges. We list a bunch of libraries on our site.
I’ve just pulled the trends for that WOEID and it works fine:
$ twurl "/1.1/trends/place.json?id=23424824"
returns
[
{
"trends": [
{
"name": "#NyameBeTuaWoKa",
"query": "%23NyameBeTuaWoKa",
"url": "http://twitter.com/search?q=%23NyameBeTuaWoKa",
"promoted_content": null
},
{
"name": "#RYSENSHYNE",
"query": "%23RYSENSHYNE",
"url": "http://twitter.com/search?q=%23RYSENSHYNE",
"promoted_content": null
},
{
"name": "#JoySMS",
"query": "%23JoySMS",
"url": "http://twitter.com/search?q=%23JoySMS",
"promoted_content": null
},
{
"name": "#starr1035fm",
"query": "%23starr1035fm",
"url": "http://twitter.com/search?q=%23starr1035fm",
"promoted_content": null
},
{
"name": "#ampeleague2",
"query": "%23ampeleague2",
"url": "http://twitter.com/search?q=%23ampeleague2",
"promoted_content": null
},
{
"name": "Mali",
"query": "Mali",
"url": "http://twitter.com/search?q=Mali",
"promoted_content": null
},
{
"name": "iOS 9",
"query": "%22iOS+9%22",
"url": "http://twitter.com/search?q=%22iOS+9%22",
"promoted_content": null
},
{
"name": "iPhone 7",
"query": "%22iPhone+7%22",
"url": "http://twitter.com/search?q=%22iPhone+7%22",
"promoted_content": null
},
{
"name": "Game of Thrones",
"query": "%22Game+of+Thrones%22",
"url": "http://twitter.com/search?q=%22Game+of+Thrones%22",
"promoted_content": null
},
{
"name": "curry",
"query": "curry",
"url": "http://twitter.com/search?q=curry",
"promoted_content": null
}
],
"as_of": "2015-06-09T11:17:25Z",
"created_at": "2015-06-09T11:13:12Z",
"locations": [
{
"name": "Ghana",
"woeid": 23424824
}
]
}
]
