Google Trends RSS: Current Trends by Country

Get a current snapshot of Google Trends Trending Now for up to 10 selected countries or regions. Exported dataset rows include each trend term, Google's approximate traffic bucket, source publication time, related-news URLs carried in the RSS feed, and source attribution. Rows exclude article headlines, publisher names, descriptions, images, and article content.

The traffic value is a source bucket, not an exact search count or historical search-volume series. Each run is a current snapshot; this version does not compare a run with a saved baseline. The first run makes no historical claim.

Input

• countries: one to 10 codes from the supported list; defaults to US.
• maxItemsPerCountry: 1 to 250 rows per country; defaults to 100.

The Actor reads only https://trends.google.com/trending/rss?geo=CC. It checks the exact host's robots file each run, makes one sequential request per country, and stops on a disallow, access block, challenge, redirect, or invalid feed. It has no browser, cookie, credential, private API, or user-configurable proxy input, and it does not rotate network routes or retry a block.

Related news URLs are returned as metadata. The Actor does not open them or copy article titles, descriptions, images, or content. Each row includes Google Trends attribution.

Limits

• Google may change or withdraw the feed at any time.
• Approximate traffic labels that cannot be parsed remain text-only.
• Historical queries, Explore data, exact search volume, custom keyword comparisons, saved baselines, and alerts are not included.
• The reviewed route is limited to the current Trending Now RSS export and the output fields described above. Live robots instructions and current Google Terms continue to apply; see docs/data-source.md.

Example input

{"countries": ["US"], "maxItemsPerCountry": 100}

Example output

Each trend is a separate dataset row. This illustration comes from the test fixture, with a fixed observation time; it is not a live trend or customer run.

{
  "country": "US",
  "observedAt": "2026-10-22T00:00:00Z",
  "title": "Synthetic Example Query",
  "trafficText": "20K+",
  "trafficLowerBound": 20000,
  "trafficLowerBoundCapped": false,
  "trafficMetric": "approximate Google Trends bucket lower bound, not exact search volume",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-21T23:40:00Z",
  "relatedNewsUrls": [
    "https://example.com/news?id=fixture"
  ],
  "sourceFeedUrl": "https://trends.google.com/trending/rss?geo=US",
  "attribution": "Data source: Google Trends (https://www.google.com/trends)."
}

The key-value store's OUTPUT record summarizes the run, including countryCount, recordCount and historicalClaim: false.

Invalid input and source failures

For example, this input requests an unsupported country:

{"countries": ["XX"], "maxItemsPerCountry": 100}

Unsupported country codes are rejected. Apify may reject invalid input before a run starts. If this value reaches the Actor, validation fails and it logs:

Invalid input: unsupported country code: XX

This failure creates no dataset error row or successful OUTPUT summary. A source refusal, challenge or invalid RSS response also fails the run. The Actor logs a source error code, message and country, without retaining the response body. It stops instead of retrying the blocked route.

Pricing

USD 0.005 per emitted trend row, or USD 5 per 1,000 rows. There is no Actor start fee. Standard Apify platform usage is included in this price. A run that emits no dataset rows has no result charge. Rows already emitted can be charged even if the run later fails.