# Changelog of Google Trends Scraper (`apify/google-trends-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/apify/google-trends-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/apify/google-trends-scraper.md

### 2025-09-04

Breaking changes:

- Google sheet ID (`spreadsheetId`) now requires the use of a public spreadsheet. This change was made to streamline the new safety-oriented restricted permission model. This change was made after checking that no users actively use private spreadsheets.

### 2025-07-31

Changes:

- Updated documentation of `geo` parameter in the input schema

### 2023-12-07

Features:

- Getting all visual output as API data (mimic API format)
- Added crafted API call to get per-city stats
- Static pages (without dynamic visual output) detected and skipped with warning
- Output changed to dataset items with nested data tree per each data type
- Achieved twice less blocking rate

### 2023-03-01

Features:

- Update SDK to version 3

### 2021-11-03

Features:

- SDK version to 2.1.0
- Support comparing 2+ items

Fix:

- Comparison terms
- Don't output average value
- Session and concurrency for a lot of URLs (thousands)

### 2021-09-20

Features:

- More crawler options on input

Bug fixes:

- Re-patch SDK for 429 error
- Don't use Chrome by default unless it's blocked
- Don't close the browser midway the navigation

### 2021-09-10

Features:

- Update SDK to 2.0.7

Changes:

- Lint

Bug fixes:

- Catch 429 code and keep the cookies