Google Trending Now – Trends, Volume & News

All trending Google searches, not just the top 20. Get every trend Google shows in Trending Now – often 150–500 per country (measured: US ~480, GB ~220, PL ~160 for 24 hours) – with search volume, growth, start time, categories, the queries behind each trend and the news articles that explain it. Works for countries and US states. Plus Google's Year in Search rankings.

Why this Actor

• Hundreds of trends per location with volume (20000 = "20K+") and growth (1000 = +1,000 %) – RSS feeds give 10–20 without numbers.
• States and regions: US-CA, US-TX, DE-BY…
• Time windows: past 4 hours, 24 hours, 48 hours or 7 days; filter by category or active trends; sort by volume, growth or recency.
• News articles for each trend (title, URL, source, time, image), preferring your language.
• Optional interest-over-time chart for each trend.
• Year in Search: Google's yearly top lists (Searches, News, People, Movies…) for many countries.
• Built for schedules: cheap, fast runs every hour or day.

Who uses it

• Newsrooms and content creators – spot rising stories early, with the articles already covering them.
• Marketers and social media teams – react to trends in your country, state or category while they are active.
• Analysts and AI agents – a structured feed of what people search for now, with volume and growth.

Quick start

{
    "geos": ["US"],
    "hours": "24"
}

Goal	Input
Top 50 sports trends in the UK today	{"geos": ["GB"], "categories": ["sports"], "maxTrends": 50}
Active trends in California, by volume	{"geos": ["US-CA"], "activeOnly": true, "sortBy": "searchVolume"}
Weekly trends in 3 countries, no articles	{"geos": ["DE","AT","CH"], "hours": "168", "includeArticles": false}
Trends with charts	{"geos": ["US"], "maxTrends": 20, "includeTrendTimeline": true}
Year in Search 2025	{"mode": "yearInSearch", "years": [2025], "geos": ["US", "PL"]}

Categories: autos-and-vehicles, beauty-and-fashion, business-and-finance, climate, entertainment, food-and-drink, games, health, hobbies-and-leisure, jobs-and-education, law-and-government, other, pets-and-animals, politics, science, shopping, sports, technology, travel-and-transportation.

Output

{
    "rank": 1,
    "title": "benfica vs celtic",
    "geo": "GB",
    "windowHours": 24,
    "startedAt": "2026-10-15T18:00:00.000Z",
    "endedAt": null,
    "isActive": true,
    "searchVolume": 100000,
    "increasePct": 1000,
    "categories": ["Sports"],
    "relatedQueries": ["benfica vs celtic", "celtic fc", "celtic score", "what channel is the celtic game on"],
    "articles": [
        {
            "title": "Benfica 4-1 Celtic: …",
            "url": "https://www.skysports.com/football/news/…",
            "source": "Sky Sports",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-16T00:46:35.000Z",
            "imageUrl": "https://…"
        }
    ],
    "warnings": [],
    "exploreUrl": "https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now+1-d&geo=GB&q=benfica+vs+celtic",
    "googleSearchUrl": "https://www.google.com/search?q=benfica%20vs%20celtic"
}

Year in Search rows: year, geo, category (list title in the page language), rank, title, trendsUrl, googleSearchUrl.

Each run also stores a summary in the OUTPUT record of its key-value store (rows, failed locations, why the run stopped, charged events).

Integrations

API (run-sync-get-dataset-items), AI agents via the Apify MCP server, n8n / Make / Zapier ("Run Actor"), Slack or Google Sheets via Apify integrations, and schedules.

Pricing – what a job costs

You pay only for delivered results; platform usage is included (no compute or proxy costs on top).

Event	Price (FREE / BRONZE)	When
run-start	$0.02	once per run, together with the first paid result
trend	$0.70 / 1,000	each delivered trend (articles included)
trend-timeline	$1.20 / 1,000	each trend chart with data
year-in-search-item	$0.20 / 1,000	each Year in Search entry

SILVER and GOLD plans get a lower trend-timeline price (−3 to −5 %).

Typical job	Cost
10 trends with articles	$0.027
A whole country for 24 hours (~450 trends)	$0.335
20 trends with charts	$0.058
Year in Search, one country (90–340 entries)	$0.038–0.088

You don't pay for a location whose list failed, a chart that stayed blocked, or a run that delivers nothing (no start fee either).

Reliability (measured)

• Trending Now lists, articles and Year in Search: every one of our runs succeeded so far (Google does not rate-limit these requests in our measurements); in our test of 2026-10-27 (18 runs) all lists, articles, charts and Year in Search pages were delivered.
• Scheduled control runs check the Actor every hour, with alerts when something stops working.
• Charts use the rate-limited Google Trends Explore API; a chart that stays blocked is delivered as the trend with the warning timeline: blocked (not charged).
• When the time budget (maxRunSecs) runs out, every trend finished so far is saved – a run never ends empty because of time.

Good to know

• searchVolume is Google's lower bound ("20K+" → 20000); increasePct is Google's rounded growth.
• Google's lists change quickly: two runs a few minutes apart can differ in order and content.
• Trending Now lists, articles and Year in Search need no special proxy (default Apify Proxy). Charts (includeTrendTimeline) use the rate-limited Google Trends Explore API and default to residential proxies with a new IP per chart (chartProxyConfiguration); the last attempts of a chart use your default Apify Proxy.

FAQ

Is searchVolume an exact number? No – it is Google's lower bound ("20K+" → 20000). For relative interest over time, regions and related queries of any term, use our Google Trends API Actor.

How often should I run it? Lists change within hours: hourly or every few hours with hours: "4" catches new trends early; daily with hours: "24" gives a daily digest.

Can I get trends for a state or region? Yes – use codes like US-CA or DE-BY in geos.

Not affiliated with Google

This is an independent Actor by DataRelay, not a Google product. It reads the same data that the public Google Trends website shows.

Usage statistics

The Actor sends anonymous run statistics to the developer (mode and options, number of items, Google request counts, duration). Your Apify user id is sent only as a keyed hash, used to count distinct users. No results, account details or personal data are collected.

Changelog

• 0.1 – first version.