Google Trends Scraper & API: Interest Over Time, by Region, Related Queries & Trending Now

Get Google Trends data as clean JSON, CSV or Excel without the official API: interest over time, interest by region, related queries and today's trending searches.

Pass keywords or Google Trends URLs and get interest over time, interest by region and related queries (top and rising, with Breakout values). You can also pull Trending now searches for any country, each with its search volume, breakdown queries and news articles. No browser and no Google account needed. Run it on Apify, call it through the API, or use it as a real-time Standby HTTP endpoint.

What can this Google Trends scraper do?

• 📈 Interest over time for any keyword, country, region (e.g. US-CA), category and time range. Ranges go from the past hour to 2004–present, and you can set custom dates.
• 🗺️ Interest by region at country, region, metro (DMA) or city level.
• 🔎 Related queries, both top and rising. Breakout values are included.
• 🧩 Related topics fields are included, but Google currently returns them empty for most automated requests (see Limitations).
• ⚖️ Compare up to 5 keywords on the same scale, just like the Trends UI.
• 🌐 Web, Image, News, Google Shopping and YouTube search properties.
• 🔥 Trending now / daily trending searches for any country, over the past 4h, 24h, 48h or 7 days. Each trend has its volume, % increase, start and end time, categories, trend breakdown and top news articles.
• 🆕 Only new results mode for monitoring. Schedule the actor and you only get trends you haven't seen before.
• ⚡ Standby mode: call it like a REST API with GET /?keywords=bitcoin&geo=US and get results in a few seconds.
• 💸 Free error rows: if a keyword has too little search volume, the row is returned with an error and you are not charged for it.

Use cases

• SEO and content planning: find rising queries and seasonal peaks before your competitors do.
• Market and product research: compare brands, products or categories across countries.
• Newsrooms and social media teams: get a feed of what's trending right now, with news links, every hour.
• Ecommerce: track demand for products on Google Shopping by region.
• Finance and crypto: use search interest as an alternative-data signal (e.g. bitcoin, gold price).
• AI agents and LLM pipelines: pull clean, structured trend data through the API or Standby.

How to use it

The input is a simple form, no code needed:

1. Type search terms into 🔎 Keywords or topics (one per line).
2. Pick a Country from the dropdown (or 🌍 Worldwide; you can also type a region code such as US-CA), a Time range and the Data to collect. Turn on Compare keywords on one 0-100 scale to compare up to 5 terms like in Google Trends.
3. For daily trending searches, open 🔥 Trending now and pick one or more countries from Trending now: countries, plus the period and category.
4. Optional, in ⚙️ More options: exact From date / To date pickers, category ID, region detail, Google Trends URLs, limits and connection settings.
5. Click Start and download the results from the Output tab, or call it through the API or Standby.

Input example

Use Explore inputs (keywords / URLs) and/or Trending now inputs (countries). Example:

{
  "keywords": ["matcha", "coffee"],
  "compareKeywords": false,
  "geo": "US",
  "timeRange": "past_5y",
  "dataTypes": ["interestOverTime", "interestByRegion", "relatedQueries", "relatedTopics"],
  "trendingGeos": ["US", "IT"],
  "trendingHours": "24",
  "maxTrendingPerGeo": 20,
  "includeTrendingNews": true
}

Field	Description
keywords	Search terms. Each one gives one result row, unless compareKeywords is on.
startUrls	Google Trends Explore or Trending URLs. Their parameters (q, geo, date, cat, gprop) are used.
compareKeywords	Compares up to 5 keywords together on the same 0–100 scale.
geo	Country or region code (US, GB, US-CA), or empty for worldwide.
timeRange	past_hour, past_4h, past_day, past_7d, past_30d, past_90d, past_12m, past_5y or all. For exact dates use dateFrom / dateTo (2025-01-01, 2025-06-30); the older customTimeRange (2025-01-01 2025-06-30) still works.
category	Google Trends category ID (0 = all).
property	web, images, news, froogle (Shopping) or youtube.
dataTypes	Which Explore datasets to fetch.
regionResolution	COUNTRY, REGION, DMA or CITY.
trendingGeos	Countries to fetch Trending now searches for.
trendingHours	4, 24, 48 or 168.
trendingCategory, trendingActiveOnly, trendingMinVolume, maxTrendingPerGeo	Filters for Trending now.
includeTrendingNews, newsPerTrend	Adds news articles to each trend.
onlyNew, stateKey	Monitoring mode: skips results seen in earlier runs.
maxItems	Overall cap on results.
proxyConfiguration	Apify Proxy. Datacenter is the default and works well.

Output example

Keyword result (type: "keyword")

{
  "type": "keyword",
  "keyword": "matcha",
  "geo": "US",
  "timeRange": "today 5-y",
  "category": 0,
  "property": "web",
  "comparedWith": [],
  "interestOverTime": [
    {"date": "2026-10-18", "timestamp": 1792281600, "formattedTime": "Oct 18 – 24, 2026", "value": 60, "hasData": true, "isPartial": false},
    {"date": "2026-10-25", "timestamp": 1792886400, "formattedTime": "Oct 25 – 31, 2026", "value": 57, "hasData": true, "isPartial": true}
  ],
  "averageInterest": 44.3,
  "peakInterestDate": "2026-06-21",
  "interestByRegion": [
    {"geoCode": "US-HI", "geoName": "Hawaii", "value": 100},
    {"geoCode": "US-CA", "geoName": "California", "value": 81}
  ],
  "relatedQueriesTop": [
    {"query": "matcha tea", "value": 100, "formattedValue": "100", "link": "https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=matcha+tea&date=today+5-y&geo=US"}
  ],
  "relatedQueriesRising": [
    {"query": "ryze matcha", "value": 58100, "formattedValue": "Breakout", "link": "https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=ryze+matcha&date=today+5-y&geo=US"}
  ],
  "relatedTopicsTop": [],
  "relatedTopicsRising": [],
  "trendsUrl": "https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=matcha&date=today+5-y&hl=en-US&geo=US",
  "warnings": ["Google Trends returned no related topics for this search."],
  "error": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-28T18:39:44Z"
}

(Real output from a cloud test run on 28 Oct 2026. Lists are shortened.)

Trending now result (type: "trending")

{
  "type": "trending",
  "title": "butter",
  "geo": "US",
  "searchVolume": 200000,
  "increasePercent": 1000,
  "startedAt": "2026-10-27T19:30:00Z",
  "endedAt": null,
  "isActive": true,
  "trendBreakdown": [
    "butter",
    "butter recalled",
    "miyoko plant based butter recall",
    "recalled butter",
    "miyoko's creamery",
    "butter recall"
  ],
  "categories": [
    "Food and Drink",
    "Business and Finance"
  ],
  "categoryIds": [
    5,
    3
  ],
  "newsArticleCount": 2,
  "news": [
    {
      "title": "Plant-based butter recalled over yeast, mold and E.coli concerns receives FDA risk classification",
      "url": "https://abcnews.com/Health/plant-based-butter-recalled-yeast-mold-ecoli-concerns/story?id=137635485",
      "source": "ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos",
      "publishedAt": "2026-10-28T17:09:02Z",
      "imageUrl": "https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQBuQhPqyWC0hSdcy6JD67ARi3z2F8bY7ZTqbcG2v3K0tQkUqSpz1sXFyshWAQ"
    }
  ],
  "pictureUrl": "https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQBuQhPqyWC0hSdcy6JD67ARi3z2F8bY7ZTqbcG2v3K0tQkUqSpz1sXFyshWAQ",
  "pictureSource": "ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos",
  "hours": 24,
  "exploreUrl": "https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=butter&geo=US&date=now+7-d",
  "error": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-28T18:40:12Z"
}

(Real output from a cloud test run on 28 Oct 2026. Only the first news article is shown.)

The dataset has ready-made views: Overview, Keywords and Trending now.

Pricing

Pay per event, with platform usage included. You pay only for:

Event	Price
Run start (one per GB of memory; the default 512 MB run counts as one)	$0.002
Keyword result (all requested Explore data for one keyword)	$0.002, i.e. $2 per 1,000 keywords
Trending now search	$0.0005, i.e. $0.50 per 1,000 trends

Error rows are free. That includes keywords with too little volume, invalid inputs and failed requests. Examples:

• 1,000 keywords cost about $2.
• 100 trending searches with news cost about $0.05.

Standby (real-time API)

GET https://despottt--google-trends-scraper.apify.actor/?keywords=coffee&geo=IT&timeRange=past_90d
Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_TOKEN>

Lists can be comma-separated (keywords=a,b, trendingGeos=US,GB). A typical response takes 2–7 s.

FAQ

Is there an official Google Trends API? Google has an alpha API with limited access. This actor reads the same public data you see on trends.google.com, and no Google account is needed.

Why are related topics sometimes empty? Right now Google often sends empty related topics lists to automated, signed-out visitors, even when the website shows them. Related queries, interest over time and interest by region aren't affected. When topics are missing the actor adds a warning to the row. The price is the same, because the rest of the data is still delivered.

What do the values mean? Google Trends values are relative (0–100) within the chosen keyword, geo and time range. They are not absolute search counts. Trending now searchVolume is Google's approximate volume bucket (e.g. 200000 = "200K+").

Why did my keyword come back with an error? Google has too little search volume for that keyword in that place and period. Try a wider geo or a longer time range. You are not charged for these rows.

Can I monitor trends on a schedule? Yes. Turn on onlyNew, set a stateKey and schedule the actor (e.g. hourly). Each run returns only trends that weren't in earlier runs.

Do I need proxies? The default Apify datacenter proxy works well. The actor rotates sessions, warms up cookies and retries on rate limits (429) on its own.

Limitations

• Related topics are usually empty. Google currently sends empty related-topics lists to automated, signed-out visitors, even when the website shows them. The fields stay in the output and a warning is added to the row; in our latest test run all 25 keywords came back without related topics. Related queries, interest over time and interest by region are not affected.
• Values are relative (0–100), not absolute search counts. Trending now volumes are Google's approximate buckets.
• Very low-volume keywords return an error row (free) instead of data.
• Google can rate-limit or change Trends at any time. The Actor retries and rotates sessions, but very large runs may see occasional failed rows.

Responsible use

This actor collects only public, aggregated and anonymized Google Trends data, and no personal data. Please follow Google's terms of service and the laws that apply to you.