Google Trends Scraper - Interest, Regions & Related Queries

Type up to 25 keywords, or paste Google Trends links, and get Google Trends back as flat rows: one per point on the interest chart, one per region, one per related search, and one per entry in a country's Trending Now list. No Google account and no API key.

Read this before you build on it. Every value is Google's own 0 to 100 index, not a search volume. 100 is the peak of the exact series you asked for, so changing the region, the time range or the category rescales the whole thing, and two keywords pulled in separate runs are not comparable. Google does not publish absolute search counts to anyone, so no tool can give you them.

Input	Up to 25 keywords or Trends links, and country codes for Trending Now
Output	One row per datapoint, region, related query or trending search
Ceiling	20,000 rows per run
Account needed	None, and no Google API key
Price	$0.06 per 1,000 rows on the Free plan, a little less on paid plans. The free plan's $5 a month covers about 83,000

🔍 What Google Trends Scraper does

It pulls the three panels the Trends website shows for a keyword, and flattens each into rows.

Interest over time is one row per point on the chart. The range decides how fine the points are: the past day is minute by minute, a year is weekly, all is monthly back to 2004.

Interest by region is one row per place. Worldwide runs break down by country, a single country by state or province, or by city or metro area if you ask.

Related and rising queries is one row per related search, marked top for the ones consistently searched alongside your keyword and rising for the ones growing fastest.

Trending Now is separate. Give it country codes and you get what is spiking in each one now, with the top news story behind it. No keywords needed. Pick a time window, categories or a maximum and it reads the full Trending Now list instead, hundreds of searches a day in a large country, each with its search volume, how fast it rose and when it started and stopped, but no news story.

📋 What data you get from Google Trends

What you get	Field
Which panel the row came from	recordType
The keyword and the settings behind it, on every row	keyword, geo, timeframe, searchType, category, trendsUrl
Google's 0 to 100 index, and its own label for it	value, formattedValue
The point in time, and the label Google prints on the chart axis	date, dateLabel
Whether the last point is still filling in	isPartial
A region's name and code, and coordinates at city level	geoName, geoCode, latitude, longitude
A related search, top or rising, and its rank	relatedQuery, queryType, rank
Trending Now: the approximate search count Google publishes, and the story behind it	trafficEstimate, newsTitle, newsUrl, newsSource
Trending Now, full list: volume, rise, start and end, the searches in it, its categories	searchVolume, increasePercent, date, endedAt, isActive, trendBreakdown, trendCategories

▶️ How to scrape Google Trends

1. Open Google Trends Scraper and click Try for free.
2. Put your keywords into Keywords, deleting the examples first. Or paste links from the Trends Explore page into Google Trends links: each keeps its own region, range and category.
3. Set Region and Time range, and untick anything in What to return you do not need.
4. Set Maximum rows. Around 200 is enough to see what one keyword produces. Then click Start.
5. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it from the Apify API.

An empty input writes one labelled sample row and stops there, so you can see the shape first.

💰 How much does it cost to scrape Google Trends?

$0.06 per 1,000 rows on the Free plan, $0.059 on Starter, $0.058 on Scale and $0.057 on Business. The free plan's $5 a month covers about 83,000 rows.

Every delivered row costs the same, whichever panel it came from. Points Google marks as empty never become rows. Sample rows, diagnostic rows and a keyword with no data are free.

📥 What you give it

{
  "searchTerms": ["bitcoin", "ethereum"],
  "geo": "US",
  "timeframe": "today 12-m",
  "dataTypes": ["interestOverTime", "interestByRegion", "relatedQueries"],
  "maxItems": 500
}

Field	Default	What it is
searchTerms	none, the box starts at bitcoin, ethereum	Keywords or phrases, up to 25. Each is looked up on its own.
geo	worldwide, the box starts at US	A two-letter country, a sub-region like US-CA or GB-ENG, or empty for worldwide.
timeframe	today 12-m	One of the ranges in the dropdown, or a custom range typed as 2024-01-01 2024-12-31.
dataTypes	all three	interestOverTime, interestByRegion, relatedQueries. Untick what you do not need and the row count falls with it.
maxItems	1000	Total rows for the run, up to 20,000.
compareKeywords	off	Puts the first five keywords on one shared scale. Needs at least two keywords to do anything.
searchType	web	web, images, news, youtube or shopping.
regionLevel	default	country, region, city or metro. City and metro need a single country, and metro is United States only.
category	0	Google's own numeric category id, like 71 for Food and Drink. 0 is every category.
language	en-US	How region names and labels are spelled. It changes no numbers.
trendingNowGeos	none	Country codes for the Trending Now list, up to 20. Usable on its own.
trendingNowHours	none	4, 24, 48 or 168. Set this, the categories or the maximum and the full Trending Now list is read, over 24 hours unless you pick another window.
trendingNowCategories	none	Keep only these categories, such as sports or technology, as Google files each search.
trendingNowMaxItems	none	Most trending searches per country, in Google's order.
trendsUrls	none	Links from the Trends Explore page, up to 25. Several terms in one link share one scale.
splitCommas	off	Turns bitcoin, ethereum on one line into two keywords. Off, the comma is part of the term.
proxyUrls	none	Optional. Your own servers, used exactly as given.

Budget about 150 rows per keyword with all three data sets over twelve months. City and metro detail add roughly 200 rows each on their own.

A geo the run cannot read means worldwide, not an error: it wants US, not USA. An unreadable timeframe falls back to twelve months the same way, and an API call with no geo is worldwide too, whatever the form suggests.

📤 What you get back

A real row from a run in September 2026:

{
  "ok": true,
  "keyword": "bitcoin",
  "geo": "US",
  "timeframe": "today 12-m",
  "searchType": "web",
  "category": 0,
  "trendsUrl": "https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=bitcoin&date=today+12-m&geo=US",
  "recordType": "interest_over_time",
  "date": "2025-09-21T00:00:00.000Z",
  "dateLabel": "Sep 21, 2025",
  "value": 26,
  "formattedValue": "26",
  "isPartial": false,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-21T01:23:40.241Z"
}

Field	How to read it
value	Google's 0 to 100 index for this row. Not a volume.
formattedValue	Google's own label. On rising related queries this is where Breakout and +450% appear, which the number cannot express.
date	ISO 8601 in UTC, on interest-over-time rows and on a trending row's publication time. null on regional and related rows.
dateLabel	The same instant as Google prints it on the chart axis, kept because a weekly point covers a range the timestamp hides.
isPartial	True on a final point whose period has not finished. It will move. Drop those before charting a trend line.
rank	On related queries, the position with 1 strongest.

🧾 Reading the output

Three kinds of row can land in your dataset.

Row	How to spot it	Charged
A datapoint	_sample and _diagnostic both absent	yes
The sample row	_sample: true and recordType: "sample"	no
A diagnostic	_diagnostic: true and an errorCode	no

Code	What it means
NO_RESULTS	Google has no data for that keyword in that region and range. Broaden one of them.
RATE_LIMITED	Google throttled that request and would not answer it. Re-run, or ask for less in one go.
NOT_SERVED	This request was not served this run. Re-run it later. Until 12 October 2026 this code was called BLOCKED.
NOT_FOUND	Google's trending feed for that country did not answer.
NETWORK	Google was unreachable or answered badly.
TIME_BUDGET	The run hit its time limit before reaching that keyword. Everything already delivered is complete.
BAD_INPUT	A Trends link or a Trending Now option the run could not use, refused before anything was fetched. The row says which and why.
PROXY_INPUT_ADJUSTED	A network setting in your input was not usable, so it was not applied.
CHARGE_ERROR	A charge could not be recorded. The run stops handing over rows rather than continuing quietly.

One keyword with no data never stops the others, and a diagnostic row never fails the run.

💡 What people use it for

• Checking whether a product name is actually growing before committing a budget to it.
• Pulling rising related queries every week and using them as the content or keyword backlog.
• Finding which states or cities index highest for a term, then pointing spend at those first.
• Watching the Trending Now list for a country on a schedule, with the news story attached.

From a rising query to the questions behind it, in three runs:

1. Run this with dataTypes set to relatedQueries and keep the rows where queryType is rising.
2. Paste those relatedQuery values into Keyword Autocomplete Scraper's seeds with expandQuestions on.
3. Run the best questions through Google Search Results Scraper's query to see who answers them today.

🚧 What it does not do

• No absolute search volumes. The 0 to 100 index is all Google publishes.
• No related topics. Google returns an empty list for that panel to callers who are not signed in, so shipping the field would mean shipping an always-empty column. Related queries are unaffected.
• Two separate runs are not comparable. Each keyword is scaled against its own peak unless you turn on compareKeywords and run them together.
• Comparison mode takes five keywords, which is Google's own limit. Extras are dropped and the run says so in the log.
• A low-volume keyword returns nothing, not a flat line of zeroes. Google suppresses series it considers too thin, and you get a free NO_RESULTS row.
• City and metro detail is best effort. Google publishes city data only for some terms and countries; elsewhere the run falls back to the level it does publish.
• The last point of a series is usually partial and will move if you re-run later the same day.
• Trending Now is a live snapshot: two runs an hour apart differ. The full list carries no news.
• A Trends link that compares regions or time ranges against each other is refused. Links that compare search terms are fine.
• It is not an official Google tool. Dami's Studio is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google, or by any other company named on this page.

🧭 Which Google scraper do you need?

If you want	Use
The web results page for a keyword: organic, ads, People Also Ask	Google Search Results Scraper
What a search box suggests as people type	Keyword Autocomplete Scraper
Interest in a keyword over time and by region	This one
News articles with the publisher's real link	Google News Scraper
Image results and the pages they sit on	Google Images Scraper
The ads a brand runs on Google	Google Ads Transparency Scraper

❓ Questions people ask

Do I need a Google account or an API key to scrape Google Trends?

No. Nothing to sign up for and no quota.

Why don't the numbers match the Trends website?

Check that the region, the time range, the category and the Google property match: each one rescales the series. The surest way is to paste the page's own link into trendsUrls. And a keyword run on its own is scaled against its own peak, while the website puts several typed together on one scale. Turn on compareKeywords for that view.

What happens when a keyword has no data?

One free NO_RESULTS row for it, and the run carries on to the rest.

Can I call it from code or connect it to an AI assistant?

Yes. The API tab has ready-made code for Python, JavaScript and the command line. For Claude, ChatGPT or another MCP client, connect https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,dami_studio/google-trends-scraper. Either way the run happens on your Apify account at the same price.

Is scraping Google Trends legal?

Trends is public and aggregated. Apify's write-up on the legality of web scraping is a good starting point, and we are not lawyers.

🆘 If something breaks

Open the Issues tab on the actor page. Send the keyword, the region and the run ID. The errorCode on the diagnostic row usually names the problem on its own.