# Changelog of 🔥 Google Trends : Trending Search Scraper (`data_minds/google-trends-trending-search-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/data\_minds/google-trends-trending-search-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/data\_minds/google-trends-trending-search-scraper.md

## Changelog

### 1.0 — 2026-07-28

🎉 First public release of **🔥 Google Trends Trending Search Scraper**.

#### Added

- 🌍 Bulk country input — 55+ countries in the picker, plus any two-letter code via `extraCountryCodes`.
- 🔗 Bulk Google Trends URL input — country, time window and category are read from each URL.
- ⏱️ Four time windows: past 4h, 24h, 48h and 7 days.
- 🏷️ 19 category filters.
- 📈 Search volume (formatted + raw) and growth percentage per trend.
- 🔗 Related search queries, as a list and as spreadsheet-friendly joined text.
- 📰 Related news enrichment in two modes — full coverage and fast headlines-only.
- ↕️ Sorting by Google's own order, volume, recency, or growth.
- 💾 Real-time streaming — every trend is pushed to the dataset the moment it is ready.
- 📊 Five dataset table views: Overview, Volume & Momentum, Related terms, News, Timing & source.
- 🧾 Run summary written to the key-value store under `RUN-SUMMARY`.
- 🛡️ Automatic network ladder: direct connection → datacenter proxy → residential proxy (3 retries), sticky once escalated, and fully reported in the run log.
- ⏳ Global request-rate ceiling with automatic slow-down and gradual recovery when the target throttles.
- ♻️ Per-request retries with exponential backoff and jitter.
- 🧭 Self-healing parser that re-derives field positions from every response.
- 💳 Pay-per-event charging on the `trending-result` event, with graceful stop when a run reaches its charge limit.