# See whether a product category is growing or dying

**Use case:** 

Five years of Google Trends search interest for a set of competing categories, returned as a dated curve you can chart or diff. Built for the question you cannot answer from a single month of data: is demand here structurally rising, flat or in decline. Comes with the top related searches for each term.

## Input

```json
{
  "searchTerms": [
    "electric car",
    "hybrid car",
    "diesel car"
  ],
  "timeRange": "past5Years",
  "category": 0,
  "outputs": [
    "interestOverTime",
    "relatedQueries"
  ],
  "timeoutSeconds": 20
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "term": {
    "label": "Search term",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "outputType": {
    "label": "Output type",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "status": {
    "label": "Status",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "fetchMs": {
    "label": "Fetch time (ms)",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "timeRange": {
    "label": "Time range",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "charged": {
    "label": "Charged",
    "format": "boolean"
  },
  "error": {
    "label": "Error",
    "format": "string"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [Google Trends Lookup](https://apify.com/catalyst_prime/google-trends.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/catalyst_prime/google-trends.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


## How to integrate an Actor?

This Task's input is already configured above. Use it as-is rather than inventing a new one.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For full API examples (JavaScript, Python, CLI, MCP, OpenAPI), see this Task's Actor page: https://apify.com/catalyst_prime/google-trends.md

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).