Google Trends Scraper

Get Google Trends data as clean rows, without a browser and without Google's rate limits: interest over time, related and rising queries, related topics, interest by region and real-time Trending Now searches for any keyword, country, category and time range. Compare up to 5 terms, run hundreds of keywords per run, export JSON/CSV/Excel, and pay only for the rows you get. A reliable Google Trends API alternative — and the drop-in replacement for the archived pytrends library.

What does the Google Trends Scraper do?

Type keywords (or Google topic IDs such as /m/0663v), pick a time range and location, choose the reports you need, and the actor returns the same numbers you see on trends.google.com — as structured data you can chart, join, feed to a model or load into a spreadsheet.

• 📈 Interest over time — the 0–100 score per day, week or month (or per minute/hour for intraday ranges), with the average and a partial-data flag for the current period.
• 🔎 Related queries — top queries with their 0–100 score and rising queries with their growth in % or Breakout.
• 🧠 Related topics — entities related to the term, with Google's topic ID and type.
• 🗺 Interest by region — score per country, region/state, US metro area (DMA) or city.
• 🔥 Trending Now — Google's live trending searches per country for the past 4 h to 7 days, with search volume, growth %, category and the related searches behind each trend.
• ⚖️ Compare mode — up to 5 terms in one chart, scored relative to each other, exactly like the Google Trends "Compare" box.
• 🎯 Filters — country/region (US, GB, US-CA …), category (Shopping, Finance, Health …), search type (web, images, news, Google Shopping, YouTube) and custom date ranges back to 2004.
• ✅ Reliable — no headless browser and no requests to Google from shared cloud IPs, which is why most Google Trends scrapers fail with HTTP 429. Runs finish in seconds.
• 💸 Fair pricing — pay per row; requests that return no data cost nothing; no start fee.

What data does the scraper return?

Every row carries type, keyword, geo, timeRange, category, searchProperty, a link to the matching Google Trends page (exploreUrl) and scrapedAt. Depending on the report:

type	Fields
interest_over_time	date (ISO), dateLabel, timestamp, value (0–100), isPartial, averageValue, comparedWith
related_query	relation (top / rising), rank, query, value (score or growth %), valueLabel (e.g. +2,650%, Breakout), isBreakout, link
related_topic	relation, rank, topicId, topicTitle, topicType, value, valueLabel, isBreakout, link
interest_by_region	rank, location, geoCode (FI, US-CA …), value, resolution, comparedWith
trending_search	rank, query, searchVolume, increasePercentage, startedAt, endedAt, isActive, categories, trendBreakdown (related searches), hours
error	report, error — one uncharged row per request that returned no data

How to scrape Google Trends — step by step

1. Click Try for free (a free Apify account takes a minute).
2. Enter your Search terms, one per line. Topic IDs (/m/0663v) work too and disambiguate terms like apple.
3. Pick the Time range (past hour to 2004–present, or a custom date range), the Location (empty = worldwide) and optionally a Category and Search type.
4. Tick the Reports you want. Interest over time and related queries are on by default; add related topics and interest by region when you need them. Turn on Compare terms to score up to 5 terms against each other.
5. Optional: add country codes under Trending Now to get the live trending searches.
6. Click Start. Results appear in the Dataset tab; export them as JSON, CSV, Excel or XML, or read them through the API.

How much does it cost to scrape Google Trends?

$2 per 1,000 rows ($0.002 per row) for interest over time, related queries, related topics and interest by region, and $0.50 per 1,000 trending searches. Nothing is charged for requests that return no data, and there is no start fee.

Example run	Rows	Cost
1 keyword, past 12 months, interest over time + related queries (defaults)	≈ 53 + 40	≈ $0.19
1 keyword, all four reports, worldwide	≈ 150	≈ $0.30
5 keywords compared, past 5 years, interest over time	5 × 261	≈ $2.60
100 keywords, past 90 days, interest over time only	100 × 90	$18.00
Trending Now, 1 country, 100 items	100	$0.05

Apify's free plan includes $5 of usage every month — about 2,500 Google Trends rows at no cost, no credit card needed. Set a maximum total charge on the run to cap the spend; the actor stops cleanly when it is reached.

Input example

{
  "searchTerms": ["chatgpt", "claude ai"],
  "timeRange": "today 12-m",
  "geo": "US",
  "category": 0,
  "searchProperty": "",
  "includeInterestOverTime": true,
  "includeRelatedQueries": true,
  "includeRelatedTopics": false,
  "includeInterestByRegion": true,
  "regionResolution": "REGION",
  "compareTerms": false,
  "trendingGeos": ["US"],
  "trendingHours": "24",
  "trendingMaxItems": 50
}

Time ranges

timeRange	Meaning	Data points
now 1-H, now 4-H	past hour / 4 hours	per minute
now 1-d, now 7-d	past day / 7 days	per 8 minutes / per hour
today 1-m, today 3-m	past 30 / 90 days	daily
today 12-m	past 12 months	weekly
today 5-y, all	past 5 years / 2004–present	weekly / monthly
custom + customTimeRange	e.g. 2025-01-01 2025-06-30 or hourly 2025-06-01T00 2025-06-03T23	daily / weekly / hourly

Locations and categories

geo takes ISO country codes (US, GB, DE, IN, BR …) or region codes (US-CA, GB-ENG, FR-J). Leave it empty for worldwide. For interest by region, choose COUNTRY (worldwide), REGION (states/provinces of the chosen country), DMA (US metro areas) or CITY.

category is Google's category ID: 0 all, 3 Arts & Entertainment, 5 Computers & Electronics, 7 Finance, 12 Business & Industrial, 16 News, 18 Shopping, 19 Games, 20 Sports, 22 Travel (Google ID 67 in some lists), 44 Beauty & Fitness, 45 Health, 47 Autos & Vehicles, 65 Jobs & Education, 71 Food & Drink, 958 Pets & Animals. Any category ID from the Google Trends URL (cat=) works.

Output examples

Interest over time (weekly point, today 12-m, United States):

{
  "type": "interest_over_time",
  "keyword": "chatgpt",
  "geo": "US",
  "timeRange": "today 12-m",
  "category": 0,
  "searchProperty": "web",
  "date": "2026-10-04",
  "dateLabel": "Oct 4 – 10, 2026",
  "timestamp": 1791072000,
  "value": 83,
  "isPartial": false,
  "averageValue": 76,
  "comparedWith": null,
  "exploreUrl": "https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=chatgpt&date=today+12-m&hl=en&geo=US",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-27T00:00:42Z"
}

Rising related query:

{
  "type": "related_query",
  "keyword": "pixel 10",
  "geo": "WORLDWIDE",
  "timeRange": "today 1-m",
  "relation": "rising",
  "rank": 1,
  "query": "vivo v80",
  "value": 500,
  "valueLabel": "+500%",
  "isBreakout": false,
  "link": "https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=vivo+v80&date=today+1-m",
  "exploreUrl": "https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=pixel+10&date=today+1-m&hl=en",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-27T00:00:58Z"
}

Interest by region in compare mode (3 phones, worldwide):

{
  "type": "interest_by_region",
  "keyword": "pixel 10",
  "geo": "WORLDWIDE",
  "timeRange": "today 1-m",
  "rank": 25,
  "location": "Finland",
  "geoCode": "FI",
  "value": 5,
  "resolution": "COUNTRY",
  "comparedWith": ["iphone 17", "galaxy s26"],
  "exploreUrl": "https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=iphone+17%2Cpixel+10%2Cgalaxy+s26&date=today+1-m&hl=en",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-27T00:01:07Z"
}

Trending Now (United States, past 4 hours):

{
  "type": "trending_search",
  "geo": "US",
  "rank": 1,
  "query": "ballon d'or",
  "searchVolume": 200000,
  "increasePercentage": 1000,
  "startedAt": "2026-10-26T21:30:00Z",
  "endedAt": null,
  "isActive": true,
  "categories": ["Sports"],
  "trendBreakdown": ["harry kane ballon d'or", "who won the ballon d or 2026", "lamine yamal", "ballon d'or top 10"],
  "hours": 4,
  "exploreUrl": "https://trends.google.com/trending?geo=US&hours=4",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-27T00:02:21Z"
}

What can you build with Google Trends data?

• SEO and content planning — find rising queries and breakout topics before the competition writes about them; track seasonality of your keywords; pick the right month to publish.
• Market and product research — validate demand for a product idea by country before you launch; compare your brand against competitors over time.
• E-commerce and dropshipping — spot products whose interest is climbing (relation: rising), check regional demand, time your ads.
• Finance and alternative data — build time series of consumer interest for tickers, brands or sectors; detect spikes.
• Journalism and trend reports — daily Trending Now feeds per country with volume and related searches, ready for a newsletter or dashboard.
• Academic research — reproducible pulls of interest over time by region and category, exported to CSV.
• AI agents and LLM apps — give an agent live "what are people searching for" context through Apify's MCP server or the API.

A Google Trends API alternative that keeps working

Google's official Trends API is an invite-only alpha and returns scaled values, and the popular pytrends library was archived in 2025. Scrapers that hit Google Trends from shared cloud IPs get rate-limited (HTTP 429) within minutes. This actor avoids that path entirely: it retrieves the data through a maintained pipeline with its own Google access, retries transient errors with backoff, fails fast with a clear message when something is really wrong, and never charges you for a request that produced nothing.

Coming from pytrends? interest_over_time() → Interest over time, related_queries() → Related queries, related_topics() → Related topics, interest_by_region() → Interest by region (set regionResolution), trending_searches() → Trending Now. Compare mode reproduces the 5-keyword build_payload behaviour.

Use it as a tool for AI agents

Through Apify's MCP server an agent can ask for the trend of any topic and receive a stable JSON schema with explicit type, value, date and error fields — ideal for research assistants, trend-report generators and content-planning agents.

FAQ

Is there an official Google Trends API?

Only a gated alpha. This actor is the practical Google Trends API alternative: real data, every report type, JSON/CSV output, pay per row.

Is the value an absolute search volume?

No. Google Trends publishes a relative 0–100 index: 100 is the peak popularity of the term in the chosen range and location. Compare mode scores several terms on one scale, so you can tell which is bigger. Trending Now rows do include an approximate searchVolume.

How many keywords can I run?

Up to 100 per run; run the actor several times or schedule it for more. Each report for each term is one request. Parallel requests are capped at 5 to stay within Google's limits.

What changes with Compare terms?

Off (default): every term gets its own 0–100 scale. On: terms are grouped five at a time into one chart and scored relative to the most popular term in the group — the numbers you see when you add terms to the Google Trends compare box. Related queries and topics are always fetched per term.

Why did a term return an error row?

Google Trends has no data for very rare terms, for some combinations of category and region, or for custom ranges in the future. The row explains which report was empty and it is never charged.

Why do I get weekly points for the past 12 months?

Google Trends decides the granularity from the range: minutes for the past hours, hourly for 7 days, daily up to 90 days (or a custom range under ~9 months), weekly up to 5 years, monthly for 2004–present. Use a custom range to get daily data for a specific period.

Can I schedule it and get the data elsewhere?

Yes. Use Apify Schedules to run it hourly or daily, and Integrations (webhooks, Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, n8n) or the API to deliver the rows.

Is scraping Google Trends legal?

The actor collects aggregated, anonymous public statistics — no personal data. You are responsible for how you use the data; cite Google Trends when you publish it.

More data tools by damilo

• Google Search Results Scraper — organic results, ads and People Also Ask for any keyword, country and language.
• Google Autocomplete Scraper — keyword ideas straight from Google's suggest box; pair it with Trends to size them.
• Google Shopping Scraper — live product listings and prices for the products that are trending.
• Google Images Scraper and Google Maps Scraper — visual research and local business data.
• YouTube Transcript Scraper and YouTube Comments Scraper — see what people say about the topics that trend (use searchProperty: "youtube" here to measure YouTube interest).
• Amazon Search Scraper, eBay Search Scraper, Y Combinator Scraper, FDA Acronyms & Abbreviations Database.

Support

Missing a report, a filter or a country? Something looks off compared to trends.google.com? Open an Issue on this page — it is answered quickly. If the actor saved you time, a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review helps other people find it.