Google Trends Scraper

Google Trends data for any keyword as clean JSON or CSV: interest over time, interest by region, top and rising related queries and topics. Optionally today's Trending Now searches for any country. Any timeframe from the past hour to 2004-present, any location, category and search type (web, image, news, YouTube, Shopping).

No browser, no API key. Each keyword is one request chain against Google Trends' own data endpoints, so runs finish in seconds.

What you get per keyword

{
  "keyword": "chatgpt",
  "geo": "US",
  "timeframe": "today 3-m",
  "category": 0,
  "property": "web",
  "averageInterest": 62.3,
  "interestOverTime": [
    { "date": "2026-06-08", "dateFormatted": "Jun 8, 2026", "value": 71, "isPartial": false }
  ],
  "interestByRegion": [
    { "geoCode": "US-CA", "geoName": "California", "value": 100 }
  ],
  "relatedQueries": {
    "top": [ { "query": "chatgpt login", "value": 100, "formattedValue": "100" } ],
    "rising": [ { "query": "chatgpt 5", "value": 4300, "formattedValue": "Breakout" } ]
  },
  "relatedTopics": {
    "top": [ { "title": "ChatGPT", "type": "Chatbot", "mid": "/g/11khcfz0y2", "value": 100, "formattedValue": "100" } ],
    "rising": []
  },
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-08T00:00:00.000Z"
}

Field	Meaning
interestOverTime	Google's 0-100 index per point. Resolution follows the timeframe: minutes for "past hour", hours for "past day", days for 90 days, weeks for 12 months and 5 years, months for 2004-present. isPartial marks the current, still-changing bucket.
averageInterest	Mean of the timeline, handy for ranking many keywords in one run.
interestByRegion	0-100 per country when geo is empty, per state/region when geo is a country. Regions with no data are omitted.
relatedQueries / relatedTopics	top is the 0-100 ranked list, rising is percent growth; formattedValue is "Breakout" for more than 5000 percent.

Each keyword is fetched on its own, so values are relative to that keyword's own peak (the same as typing one term into Google Trends). Fields Google does not return are omitted, never invented.

Trending Now rows

Add country codes to trendingNowGeos and you also get one row per trending search:

{ "type": "trendingNow", "geo": "US", "title": "class action", "approxTraffic": "500+", "pubDate": "Mon, 7 Sep 2026 15:00:00 -0700", "exploreUrl": "https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=class%20action", "picture": "https://...", "pictureSource": "GlobeNewswire", "news": [ { "title": "...", "url": "...", "source": "..." } ] }

Input

{
  "keywords": ["chatgpt", "claude ai"],
  "geo": "US",
  "timeframe": "today 12-m",
  "trendingNowGeos": ["US", "IN"]
}

Field	Default	Notes
keywords	required unless trendingNowGeos is set	One row each.
geo	"" (worldwide)	ISO country code (US, GB, IN) or sub-region (US-CA, GB-ENG).
timeframe	today 12-m	now 1-H, now 4-H, now 1-d, now 7-d, today 1-m, today 3-m, today 12-m, today 5-y, all, or a custom range 2024-01-01 2024-12-31.
category	0	Google Trends category id. 5 Computers & Electronics, 7 Finance, 12 Business & Industrial, 18 Shopping, 45 Health.
property	"" (web)	images, news, youtube, froogle (Shopping).
includeInterestOverTime and the other include* flags	true	Turn off what you do not need.
trendingNowGeos	[]	Country codes for Trending Now rows.
language	en-US	Locale for labels and region names.
minDelayMs	2000	Pause between requests. Google rate limits Trends hard; keep this unless you use residential proxies.
proxyConfiguration	Apify Proxy	Residential proxies are the most reliable for Google.

Pricing

Pay per event. You pay only for what lands in the dataset.

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.005
Keyword scraped (one full row)	$0.02
Trending Now item	$0.001

Set Max total charge on the run to cap spend; the Actor stops cleanly when it is reached. 1,000 keywords is about $20.

Use cases

• Rank product ideas, niches or content topics by search interest before you build.
• Track brand or competitor interest weekly with a scheduled run and a Google Sheets integration.
• Find breakout queries (formattedValue: "Breakout") for SEO and ad campaigns.
• Feed today's Trending Now searches into a newsroom or social media workflow.

Limits and notes

• Google shows a keyword as 0 when its volume is below Google's threshold; that is Google's answer, not an error.
• Very high request rates trigger HTTP 429. The Actor rotates proxy sessions and refreshes its Google cookie, then retries once per keyword. Failed keywords are logged and skipped, the run continues.
• Interest values are relative and rounded by Google. For comparisons across keywords use averageInterest from the same run and timeframe.

Integrations and API

Works with every Apify integration (Google Sheets, Slack, Make, Zapier, webhooks) and the Apify API and clients (Python, JavaScript). Example with the Python client:

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("YOUR_API_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("ceo.sss/google-trends-scraper").call(run_input={"keywords": ["chatgpt"], "geo": "US"})
for row in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(row["keyword"], row["averageInterest"])