Google Trending Now — Free Daily Trending Searches

Get what people are searching on Google right now in 125 countries (plus US states, other regions and US metro areas): rank, approximate search volume as text and as a number, when the trend started, an image and related news headlines. Run it once, or schedule it and get a daily digest in Slack, Google Sheets or your own app.

Free. This Actor has no usage fee. Like any Actor, each run uses a small amount of Apify platform compute, paid from your Apify credits. In our tests, 3 countries took about 6 s and cost about $0.0003 in platform usage; 22 countries took about 85 s and cost about $0.001.

Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google. "Google Trends" is a trademark of Google LLC.

Features

• Many countries in one run. Pass a list of codes; each country is fetched separately.
• Up to 10 trends per country, the top of Google's Trending Now feed for that country. In our test, 119 of 125 countries returned the full 10; a few small markets return fewer (e.g. Albania 7, Bahrain 5, Cuba 1).
• Regions and metros. Sub-national codes such as US-CA, US-NY, DE-BY, GB-SCT, IN-MH and US metro (DMA) codes such as 501 (New York) also work.
• Numeric search volume. trend_volume as Google shows it ("2000+") and trend_volume_raw as a number, so you can sort and filter.
• Sort by Google order, search volume, most recent, or title.
• Related news headlines (title, URL, source), 1–10 per trend. Can be turned off.
• Flat output for CSV / Excel / Google Sheets: one row per trend, news joined into text columns.
• Only new since last run for scheduled digests: skip trends you already got.
• Per-country status. An unsupported code returns one item with status: "unsupported_country"; a country that fails returns status: "error" or "rateLimited". The other countries are always processed and the run itself does not fail.
• Run report saved to the key-value store as RUN_REPORT: countries requested, succeeded, unsupported, failed, items, run time.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
countries	array of strings	["US"]	Country codes (US, GB, DE…), regions (US-CA) or US metro codes (501). UK is accepted as GB.
maxItemsPerCountry	integer	0	0 = all trends in the feed (up to 10).
sortBy	string	relevance	relevance (Google order), volume, recency or title.
includeNews	boolean	true	Add related news articles to each trend.
newsPerTrend	integer	3	News articles per trend (1–10).
outputFormat	string	nested	nested (JSON arrays) or flat (one text row per trend).
onlyNewSinceLastRun	boolean	false	Skip trends already returned by a previous run with the same countries.
stateKey	string	auto	Optional name for the "only new" state.
proxyConfiguration	object	no proxy	Optional. Not needed for normal use.

One-click example

The defaults work as they are: clicking Start returns the current trends for the US with news. A multi-country run for a spreadsheet:

{ "countries": ["US", "GB", "DE", "IN", "BR"], "sortBy": "volume", "outputFormat": "flat" }

Output fields

Field	Description
dataType	Always trendingNow
status	ok, or unsupported_country / error / rateLimited for a country with no data
source	rss: Google's Trending Now feed
geo / country / region	Requested code / its country / the region or metro code (null for a country)
rank / googleRank	Position in your sort order / position in Google's list
title / term / query	The trending search (same value)
trend_volume / approxTraffic	Approximate searches as shown by Google, e.g. "2000+"
trend_volume_raw	The same as a number, e.g. 2000
started_at	When Google published the trend (ISO 8601)
picture	Image URL for the trend
news / news_count	Related headlines [{ "title", "url", "source" }] and their number
news_titles / news_urls / news_sources	Flat output only: headlines joined with |
trends_url	Google Trends explore page for the term in that geo
scraped_at	When the run collected the data (ISO 8601)
errorMessage	Only on non-ok items

Fields category, categories, related_terms, ended_at, is_active, language, timeframe_hours and percentIncrease are reserved and are empty in this free version, because the feed does not include them.

Output example (values illustrative)

{
  "dataType": "trendingNow", "status": "ok", "source": "rss", "geo": "US", "country": "US", "region": null,
  "rank": 1, "googleRank": 1, "title": "example trending search", "term": "example trending search",
  "trend_volume": "200000+", "trend_volume_raw": 200000, "started_at": "2026-10-23T14:00:00.000Z",
  "picture": "<image url>", "news": [{ "title": "Example headline", "url": "<article url>", "source": "Example News" }], "news_count": 1,
  "trends_url": "<Google Trends explore URL>", "scraped_at": "2026-10-23T16:00:00.000Z"
}

An unsupported code:

{ "dataType": "trendingNow", "status": "unsupported_country", "geo": "XX", "country": "XX", "errorMessage": "Google Trends has no Trending Now feed for \"XX\"", "scraped_at": "2026-10-23T16:00:00.000Z" }

Recipes

Run from n8n or Make with one HTTP request

Use an HTTP Request node (n8n) or HTTP → Make a request module (Make):

• Method: POST
• URL: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/datarock~google-trending-now/run-sync-get-dataset-items?format=json
• Header: Authorization: Bearer <your Apify API token>
• Body (JSON): { "countries": ["US", "GB"], "outputFormat": "flat" }

The response is the list of trends. Add a filter status = ok, then send to Slack or Google Sheets → Append row. Use format=csv in the URL to get CSV instead.

Daily digest

1. In Apify Console, open this Actor → Schedule → every day at 08:00 with your input and onlyNewSinceLastRun: true.
2. In n8n or Make use the Apify app (trigger "Actor run finished", then "Get dataset items").
3. Filter status = ok and map geo, rank, term, trend_volume_raw, news_titles to your sheet or channel.

The same output works from your own code through the Apify API and client libraries, and from AI agents through the Apify MCP server.

FAQ

Is it free? Yes. There is no per-result or rental fee. Platform compute is paid from your Apify credits; a run of a few countries costs a fraction of a cent.

Which countries are supported? 125 countries were verified before release (codes): AE, AL, AM, AO, AR, AT, AU, AZ, BA, BD, BE, BF, BG, BH, BJ, BO, BR, BY, CA, CD, CH, CI, CL, CM, CO, CR, CU, CY, CZ, DE, DK, DO, DZ, EC, EE, EG, ES, ET, FI, FR, GB, GE, GH, GR, GT, HK, HN, HR, HT, HU, ID, IE, IL, IN, IQ, IR, IT, JM, JO, JP, KE, KG, KH, KR, KW, KZ, LB, LK, LT, LV, LY, MA, MD, MK, ML, MM, MX, MY, MZ, NG, NI, NL, NO, NP, NZ, OM, PA, PE, PH, PK, PL, PR, PS, PT, PY, QA, RO, RS, RU, SA, SE, SG, SI, SK, SN, SV, SY, TH, TM, TN, TR, TT, TW, TZ, UA, UG, US, UY, UZ, VE, VN, YE, ZA, ZM, ZW. Regions (e.g. US-CA, DE-BY) and US metro codes (e.g. 501) also work. Any other code returns status: "unsupported_country" and the run continues.

How many trends do I get per country? Up to 10, the top of Google's Trending Now feed. Smaller markets can have fewer at a given moment.

Can I choose the time window, category, or get related queries? Not in this free version; it returns the current top trends per country.

What if Google blocks a request? The Actor retries with backoff. If a country still fails, you get an item with status: "rateLimited" or "error", and the other countries are still processed. You can also turn on Apify Proxy in the input.

How often does the list change? Google updates Trending Now through the day. Schedule runs as often as you need.

Personal data? No. Trending searches are aggregated, and the Actor does not log in anywhere.