# Google Trends Scraper (Interest, Regions, Related, Trending) (`ahmad_mahameed/google-trends-scraper`) Actor

Google Trends data for any keyword: interest over time, interest by country or region, related queries and topics (top and rising), keyword comparisons and daily Trending now searches. Reliable with automatic retries. $1.50 per 1,000 keyword reports.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/ahmad_mahameed/google-trends-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Ahmad Mahameed](https://apify.com/ahmad_mahameed) (community)
- **Categories:** SEO tools, News
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.50 / 1,000 keyword reports

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

### What does Google Trends Scraper do?

It gets [Google Trends](https://trends.google.com/) data for your keywords, the same numbers you see on the website, as clean JSON, CSV or Excel:

- 📈 **Interest over time**: the 0–100 trend line for any period, from the past hour to 2004–today, or your own date range
- 🗺️ **Interest by region**: countries, states, metro areas or cities
- 🔎 **Related queries**: top and **rising** searches (for example "+350%" or "Breakout")
- ⚖️ **Compare** up to 5 keywords on the same scale
- 🔥 **Trending now**: today's trending searches in any country, with traffic and news links
- 🛡️ **Reliable**: automatic retries with fresh sessions when Google rate-limits, and you're not charged for failed keywords
- 💲 **$1.50 per 1,000 keyword reports**, $0.80 per 1,000 trending searches

### Use cases

- **SEO and content planning**: find rising queries before competitors
- **Market and product research**: compare brands, products or categories over time and by region
- **Investing and e-commerce**: track demand for a product, stock or crypto
- **Newsrooms and social media**: catch what is trending today in each country
- **AI agents and dashboards**: feed trend data into reports, Google Sheets or Slack on a schedule

### Input

```json
{
  "searchTerms": ["chatgpt", "claude ai"],
  "geo": "US",
  "timeRange": "today 12-m",
  "compareTerms": false,
  "includeRegions": true,
  "includeRelatedQueries": true,
  "trendingNowGeos": ["US", "GB"]
}
```

- **Country or region**: `US`, `GB`, `DE`, `US-CA`… Leave empty for worldwide.
- **Time range**: past hour, 4 hours, day, 7 days, 30 days, 90 days, 12 months, 5 years or 2004–present. Or set a **custom start and end date**.
- **Category** and **Search type** (web, images, news, Google Shopping, YouTube) work like on the Google Trends website.

### Output

One row per keyword (or per comparison):

```json
{
  "searchTerm": "chatgpt",
  "geo": "US",
  "timeRange": "today 12-m",
  "averageInterest": 76.4,
  "interestOverTime": [
    { "date": "2025-10-12T00:00:00+00:00", "formattedTime": "Oct 12 – 18, 2025", "value": 92, "isPartial": false }
  ],
  "interestByRegion": [
    { "geoCode": "US-CA", "geoName": "California", "value": 100 }
  ],
  "relatedQueriesTop": [
    { "query": "chatgpt login", "value": 59, "link": "https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=chatgpt+login..." }
  ],
  "relatedQueriesRising": [
    { "query": "how to cancel chatgpt subscription", "value": "+350%", "link": "https://trends.google.com/..." }
  ],
  "trendsUrl": "https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=chatgpt&date=today+12-m&geo=US"
}
```

With **Compare terms** on, `interestOverTime` holds a value for each term (`"values": {"chatgpt": 92, "claude ai": 31}`) and related queries are grouped by term.

**Trending now** rows:

```json
{
  "type": "trendingNow",
  "geo": "US",
  "rank": 1,
  "title": "erin andrews",
  "approxTraffic": "1000+",
  "startedAt": "2026-10-17T22:50:00+00:00",
  "news": [{ "title": "...", "url": "https://...", "source": "Yahoo" }]
}
```

### Pricing

- **$0.0015 per keyword report** (interest over time + regions + related queries), $1.50 per 1,000. A comparison of 3 terms counts as 3 reports.
- **$0.0008 per trending search**.
- Keywords Google doesn't answer after all retries are listed with an `error` and **not charged**.

### Notes

- Google Trends values are relative (0–100), not absolute search counts. That's how Google publishes them.
- Very rare keywords may have no data in small regions or short periods.

### More tools from this developer

- [Google News Scraper](https://apify.com/ahmad_mahameed/google-news-scraper): news articles with real publisher URLs
- [YouTube Scraper](https://apify.com/ahmad_mahameed/youtube-scraper): videos, Shorts, channels and search with views, likes and dates
- [YouTube Transcript Scraper](https://apify.com/ahmad_mahameed/youtube-transcript-scraper): transcripts and subtitles in bulk, $2 per 1,000
- [Website Contact Finder](https://apify.com/ahmad_mahameed/website-contact-finder): emails, phones and socials from any website list

### Feedback

Missing an option? Open an issue on the Issues tab and it will be added quickly.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchTerms` (type: `array`):

Keywords to look up on Google Trends. Each term gets its own report.

## `compareTerms` (type: `boolean`):

Put up to 5 terms in one report on the same 0-100 scale, like the compare view on Google Trends. Charged per term.

## `geo` (type: `string`):

Two-letter country code (US, GB, DE, IN) or region code (US-CA, GB-ENG). Empty means worldwide.

## `timeRange` (type: `string`):

Period to analyze. Ignored when a custom start date is set.

## `startDate` (type: `string`):

Optional. Use a custom date range instead of the time range above.

## `endDate` (type: `string`):

Optional end of the custom date range. Default is today.

## `category` (type: `integer`):

Google Trends category number, for example 0 = all, 7 = Finance, 71 = Food and Drink, 958 = Jobs. Find it in the cat= part of a Trends URL.

## `property` (type: `string`):

Which Google search to measure: web, images, news, shopping or YouTube.

## `includeRegions` (type: `boolean`):

Add interest by country, region or city.

## `regionResolution` (type: `string`):

Level of the region breakdown. Automatic gives countries for worldwide and states or regions inside a country.

## `includeRelatedQueries` (type: `boolean`):

Add related search queries, top and rising.

## `trendingNowGeos` (type: `array`):

Optional. Get today's trending searches for these countries (two-letter codes, for example US, GB, IN), with traffic and news links.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchTerms": [
    "chatgpt",
    "claude ai"
  ],
  "compareTerms": false,
  "timeRange": "today 12-m",
  "category": 0,
  "property": "",
  "includeRegions": true,
  "regionResolution": "",
  "includeRelatedQueries": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "searchTerms": [
        "chatgpt",
        "claude ai"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("ahmad_mahameed/google-trends-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "searchTerms": [
        "chatgpt",
        "claude ai",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("ahmad_mahameed/google-trends-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "searchTerms": [
    "chatgpt",
    "claude ai"
  ]
}' |
apify call ahmad_mahameed/google-trends-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,ahmad_mahameed/google-trends-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/cDx5ijmoJYyC9al7o/builds/TZLvhnZckzC5uMa26/openapi.json