Google Trends Scraper 📈

Turn raw Google Trends search interest into decision-ready metrics — average interest, direction, growth rate, volatility, and a single 0–100 trend score — for any list of keywords, in any country, on autopilot.

Google Trends is free to look at, but painful to use at scale: there's no bulk export, the UI caps comparisons at 5 keywords, datacenter scripts get blocked within minutes, and you still have to eyeball every chart to decide if a keyword is actually rising. This Actor does all of that for you — and returns clean JSON/CSV/Excel you can drop straight into a spreadsheet, a dashboard, or your own ranking pipeline.

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✨ Why this Actor (instead of doing it yourself)

	🟢 This Actor	🔴 DIY script / Google Trends UI
Doesn't get blocked	Routes every request through rotating residential proxies with automatic retries	Datacenter IPs get rate-limited (429) within minutes
Bulk keywords	Unlimited keywords per run	UI caps you at 5; manual copy-paste
Real metrics, not charts	Growth rate, volatility, direction & a 0–100 score computed for you	You read charts by eye
Structured export	JSON, CSV, Excel, API — ready for Sheets/BI	No bulk export at all
Maintenance	We handle Google's changes & blocks	You patch broken scrapers forever
Scheduling & alerts	Built into Apify (cron, webhooks, integrations)	Build it yourself

You're not paying for data Google gives away — you're paying for reliability, scale, and the analysis that turns it into a decision.

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🚀 Quick start (60 seconds)

1. Click Try for free / Start.
2. Paste your keywords (one per line).
3. Pick a country and timeframe.
4. Hit Start — results stream into the dataset as they're scraped.
5. Export as JSON, CSV, or Excel, or pull them via the API.

{
  "keywords": ["air fryer", "matcha", "stanley cup"],
  "geo": "US",
  "timeframe": "today 3-m",
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }
}

That's it. No proxies to buy, no captchas to solve, no scrapers to babysit.

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💡 What you can do with it

• Validate product demand before you source or launch — is interest rising or already cooling off?
• SEO & content planning — find search terms that are growing now and prioritize them by score.
• Dropshipping & e-commerce — score hundreds of product ideas in one run and keep only the winners.
• Seasonal & market research — compare keyword popularity across countries and time windows.
• Feed your own pipeline — pipe the trend_score into automated ranking, dashboards, or alerts.

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📊 What makes the output valuable

The Google Trends UI gives you a squiggly line. This Actor gives you numbers you can sort, filter, and act on — including metrics the UI never shows you:

Field	Description
trend_score	Composite 0–100 score blending interest, momentum, and stability — sort by this to instantly surface winners
trend_direction	rising, falling, or stable
growth_rate	% change of the latest period vs the previous one
avg_interest	Average search interest over the timeframe
peak_interest	Highest interest value in the period
current_interest	Most recent interest level
volatility	How stable the trend is (lower = more dependable)
data_points	Number of data points behind the metrics
raw_data	Full Google Trends timeline, so you can build your own charts
extracted_at	ISO timestamp of extraction

Example result

{
  "keyword": "air fryer",
  "geo": "US",
  "timeframe": "today 3-m",
  "avg_interest": 62,
  "trend_direction": "rising",
  "peak_interest": 100,
  "current_interest": 78,
  "growth_rate": 26,
  "volatility": 12,
  "trend_score": 74,
  "data_points": 90,
  "extracted_at": "2026-06-06T14:30:00.000Z"
}

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💳 Pricing — pay only for results you get

This Actor uses pay-per-result billing: you're charged a small amount for each keyword successfully analyzed, and nothing for keywords that fail or get blocked. No monthly commitment, no surprise platform bills — your cost scales exactly with the value you receive.

Worked example: scraping 100 keywords at a price of $X per 1,000 results costs roughly $X ÷ 10 for the whole run. (See the live price on the Actor's pricing tab — it's always shown before you start.)

You can cap spend per run at any time using the maximum charge field in the Apify run options, so you're never billed more than you intend.

💡 Tip: Start with the free trial run, check the quality of the trend_score column on your own keywords, then scale up. Most users go paid once they see how much manual chart-reading it replaces.

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⚙️ Input reference

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
keywords	array	Yes	—	Keywords / product names to analyze (one lookup each)
geo	string	No	"GB"	ISO country code (US, GB, FR, DE, …)
timeframe	string	No	"today 3-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
proxyConfiguration	object	No	Apify Proxy (Residential)	Keep residential on for the best success rate against Google's blocks
delayBetweenRequests	integer	No	10000	Delay (ms) between keywords. Increase if you ever see blocks
maxRetries	integer	No	4	Retries per keyword (fresh proxy session + backoff) before giving up
requestTimeout	integer	No	30000	Timeout (ms) per request

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🛡️ Built to survive Google's blocks

Most free Google Trends scripts die the moment Google notices them. This Actor is engineered for reliability:

• Residential proxy rotation — each request (and each retry) uses a fresh, real-user IP.
• Automatic retries with exponential backoff — transient 429/block responses are retried, not dropped.
• HTML/block detection — recognizes Google's block pages and rotates instead of saving garbage.
• Graceful rate limiting — configurable delays keep you under Google's radar.
• Graceful abort — stop a run anytime; it shuts down cleanly without partial charges.

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❓ FAQ

Is this legal? It collects the same publicly available data shown on the Google Trends website. It stores no personal data. Always review Google's Terms of Service for your use case.

Why did a keyword return no data? Some niche keywords genuinely have too little search volume for Google to report. You're not charged for keywords that return no result.

How accurate are the numbers? avg_interest, peak_interest, and raw_data come directly from Google Trends. trend_score, growth_rate, and volatility are computed from that timeline using transparent formulas (see the source).

Can I schedule it? Yes — use Apify Schedules to run it daily/weekly, and Webhooks/Integrations (Make, Zapier, Slack, Google Sheets) to push results anywhere automatically.

Can I run it without a proxy? You can, but Google will likely block datacenter IPs quickly. Residential proxy is strongly recommended and on by default.

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🤝 Support

Found a bug or want a new metric? Open an issue on the Actor page — issues are read and acted on. Your feedback directly shapes the roadmap.

🔧 For developers

apify run            # run locally
apify login && apify push   # deploy to Apify

Built with: Apify SDK · google-trends-api · https-proxy-agent