Google Trends Scraper

Turn any Google Trends URL into structured data — instantly.

Stop wrestling with Google's anti-bot defenses. Paste your Google Trends URL and get clean, structured trending data in seconds. No login. No CAPTCHA. No proxy setup required.

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Why Use This Scraper?

• Fast & reliable — Single API call returns up to 265 trending topics at once. No pagination.
• Global coverage — Works for any country Google Trends supports: Korea, US, Taiwan, Japan, and more.
• Real-time status — Every topic is tagged active or ended so you know exactly what's still trending right now.
• News articles included — Each trend comes with the top news articles driving it: title, URL, source, publish time, and image. No extra calls needed.
• Category filtering — Narrow results to Sports, Entertainment, Technology, and more by simply copying the filtered URL from your browser.
• Flexible time ranges — Last 4 hours for breaking trends, up to 7 days for sustained patterns.
• No proxy needed — Built-in browser fingerprinting handles Google's bot detection automatically.
• Ready for automation — Integrate with Make, n8n, or any tool that reads from the Apify dataset API.

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What You Get

Each trending topic includes:

Field	Description
keyword	The trending search term
geo	Country code (KR, US, TW, …)
status	active — still trending now / ended — peaked and returned to normal
startedAt	When the trend started (Unix timestamp)
endedAt	When it ended (Unix timestamp) — null if still active
searchVolume	Search volume bucket (100 – 200,000)
relativeVolume	Relative spike score (50 – 1,000)
relatedQueries	Related search terms people are also searching
categories	Category IDs (Sports, Entertainment, etc.)
newsArticles	Top news articles driving the trend — title, URL, source, publish time, image

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Quick Start

1. Get your URL from Google Trends

Go to trends.google.com/trending, select your country, time range, and category. Copy the URL from your browser's address bar.

https://trends.google.com/trending?geo=KR&hours=24
https://trends.google.com/trending?geo=US&hours=4
https://trends.google.com/trending?geo=TW&hours=24&category=6

2. Configure the Actor

Field	Required	Description
urls	yes	One or more Google Trends trending URLs (one per line)
maxResults	no	Max results per URL. Leave empty to get everything.

3. Run and integrate

Results are available instantly via the Apify dataset API, ready to plug into any workflow.

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Use Cases

Content creators & marketers Track what's trending in your target country right now. Use the 4-hour window to catch breaking trends before they peak.

E-commerce & product research Monitor trending searches in specific categories (Shopping, Technology) to spot demand spikes early.

News & media monitoring Get trending topics with related queries and ready-to-use news articles (title, URL, source, image) — perfect for editorial planning or automated content pipelines.

Competitive intelligence Compare trending topics across multiple countries in a single run by providing multiple URLs.

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URL Parameters

Parameter	Description	Options
geo	Country code	KR, US, TW, JP, GB, DE, …
hours	Time range	4 (4h), 24 (24h), 48 (48h), 168 (7 days)
category	Category filter (optional)	Select in Google Trends UI, copy from URL

Category filtering is applied after fetching — the Google Trends API returns all categories server-side, and we filter to your selection locally. Results may be fewer than maxResults when a category is active.

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Pro Tips

• Breaking trends: Use hours=4 to catch what's exploding right now
• Sustained trends: Use hours=168 (7 days) to find topics with lasting momentum
• Multi-country runs: Paste multiple URLs (one per line) to collect trends from several countries in one run
• Category + volume combo: Filter by category, then sort by searchVolume to find the biggest trending topics in your niche

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Integrations

Works out of the box with Apify's native integrations:

• Make (Integromat) — Schedule daily trend collection and push to Google Sheets
• n8n — Build automated trend monitoring pipelines
• Apify API — Call directly from your app or data pipeline
• MCP (AI Agents) — Use with AI agents via the Apify MCP Server