Google Trends Scraper – reliable Google Trends API alternative

Extract Google Trends data without the failures: interest over time, interest by region (country, state, city, metro), related queries and related topics (top and rising) for any keyword, or compare up to 5 keywords at once. Works for Web, News, YouTube, Image and Google Shopping search, any country, any time range from the past hour to 2004–present.

Built to be polite and reliable: each search runs in a proxy session with Google cookies; if Google rate-limits, the Actor waits (20 s, then 40 s) and retries a couple of times, then returns a free RATE_LIMITED record instead of hammering the service. Searches are spaced a few seconds apart.

What can this Google Trends scraper do?

• 📈 Interest over time – weekly/daily/hourly 0–100 timeline plus averages per keyword
• 🗺️ Interest by region – countries, regions/states, cities or US metro areas (DMA)
• 🔎 Related queries – top and rising (breakout) searches for keyword research and SEO
• 🧩 Related topics – top and rising topics with Knowledge Graph IDs, whenever Google provides them (currently only for single-keyword searches, and often empty)
• ⚖️ Keyword comparison – up to 5 terms on one line, e.g. coffee, tea, matcha
• 🎯 Filter by country/region (geo), category, time range, custom dates and Google property
• 🔗 A direct Google Trends link for every result

How much does it cost?

Pay per result: from $0.002 per search line that returns data (less on higher Apify plans), plus a tiny $0.00005 start fee. A comparison of up to 5 keywords counts as one result. Failed or empty searches are never charged. Proxy costs are included.

Input

Field	Example	Notes
searchTerms	["web scraping", "coffee, tea"]	One search per line, comma-separate up to 5 keywords to compare (duplicates are removed)
geo	DE, US-CA	Empty = worldwide
timeframe	today 12-m	now 1-H, now 7-d, today 3-m, today 5-y, all …
customTimeRange	2024-01-01 2024-12-31	Overrides timeframe
gprop	youtube	web, news, youtube, images, froogle (Shopping)
category	71	0 = all categories
regionResolution	CITY	AUTO, COUNTRY, REGION, CITY, DMA

Toggle each section (includeInterestOverTime, includeInterestByRegion, includeRelatedQueries, includeRelatedTopics) to get only what you need.

Output example

{
  "type": "result",
  "input": "coffee, tea",
  "terms": ["coffee", "tea"],
  "geo": "DE",
  "timeframe": "today 12-m",
  "averageInterest": { "coffee": 24, "tea": 19 },
  "interestOverTime": { "points": [{ "date": "2025-10-12T00:00:00.000Z", "formattedTime": "Oct 12 – 18, 2025", "values": { "coffee": 24, "tea": 19 } }] },
  "interestByRegion": { "resolution": "REGION", "regions": [{ "geoCode": "DE-HE", "geoName": "Hesse", "values": { "coffee": 65, "tea": 35 } }] },
  "relatedQueries": { "coffee": { "top": [{ "query": "coffee machine", "value": 100 }], "rising": [{ "query": "…", "formattedValue": "Breakout" }] } },
  "relatedTopics": { "coffee": { "top": [], "rising": [] } },
  "trendsUrl": "https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=coffee%2Ctea&date=today+12-m&geo=DE"
}

Download as JSON, CSV, Excel or via API. Run statistics (requests, proxy usage, failures) are saved to the OUTPUT key-value record.

Use cases

Keyword research and SEO content planning, seasonality analysis, product and market research, brand comparisons, YouTube topic discovery, e-commerce demand forecasting, and feeding trend data into dashboards or AI agents.

FAQ

What if Google rate-limits? You get a free RATE_LIMITED record for that search (never charged). Try again later, or with fewer searches per run.

Are the values absolute search volumes? No – Google Trends returns relative interest (0–100) normalized to the highest point in the selection.

Is scraping Google Trends legal? It collects publicly available, aggregated, anonymous data. No personal data is extracted. Check your local laws and Google's terms for your use case.

Related tools

• SEO Audit Toolkit – once you know what people search for, check your site's titles, meta descriptions, broken links, sitemap and robots.txt.

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Data source: Google Trends; not affiliated with Google. Google Trends is a trademark of Google LLC.