Google Trends Growth Checker: is this keyword growing?

Give it a list of keywords and countries. Get back one clean row per keyword with year-over-year search growth, 3-month momentum, a 0-100 growth score, a plain-English trend label and the fastest-rising related searches, all from Google Trends.

Built for market research, SEO and content planning, product and niche validation, and AI agents that need a fast "is demand going up or down?" answer.

What you get

keyword	country	trend	growthScore	yoyChangePct	momentum3mPct
trump account	US	breakout	83	464.3	-20.8
home battery backup	US	breakout	62	122.2	-45.7
ai detector	US	stable	55	7.4	52.0
real id	US	declining	33	-49.1	-25.2

Example output from real Google Trends data, November 2026.

Each row also includes:

• risingQueries: up to 10 related searches growing fastest (e.g. "+900%", "Breakout"), which is the best way to discover new keywords early
• topQueries: up to 10 most popular related searches
• avgInterestLast12m / avgInterestPrev12m, peakWeek, currentVsPeakPct
• lowVolumeWarning: true when Google has too little data for the keyword to be reliable
• trendsUrl: a link to check the chart yourself

A ranked summary (highest growth first) is saved as OUTPUT in the key-value store.

New: explain the spike with news

Turn on explainWithNews and each row also gets a newsExplanation: the news headlines from the weeks around the keyword's biggest spike in the last 12 months, and the phrases that explain it.

keyword	drivers found in the news
trump account	accounts, kids, $1,000
crowdstrike	outage, global, tech
spirit airlines	bankruptcy, files, chapter 11
notre-dame (France, in French)	paris, réouverture, cathédrale

Tested on 50 well-known spikes in English, French and Arabic: the right cause was found in 43 of 50 (86%). Charged as a separate event, and only when an explanation is found.

Trend labels

label	meaning
emerging	no measurable searches a year ago, searches now
breakout	+100% or more vs the previous 12 months
rising	+20% to +100%
stable	-20% to +20%
declining	below -20%

Growth score: 50 means flat. Above 50 means growing, below 50 means shrinking. It is mostly year-over-year, adjusted for the last quarter.

Input

{
  "keywords": ["home battery backup", "portable power station"],
  "countries": ["US", "GB"],
  "includeRelatedQueries": true
}

• keywords: up to 1,000 per run
• countries: two-letter codes (US, GB, FR, DE, AU, ...) or WORLDWIDE
• Each keyword is checked in every country listed

Pricing

Pay per keyword checked. Failed checks are never charged. No subscription.

Good to know

• Google Trends measures relative interest (0-100, scaled to each keyword's own peak), not absolute search counts. Use this Actor to see whether demand is growing; use a search-volume tool to see how big it is.
• Growth compares the last 52 complete weeks with the 52 weeks before them, so seasonality is cancelled out.
• Residential proxy is set by default because Google limits automated access. The Actor retries automatically on a fresh IP.

For AI agents (MCP)

One call answers "which of these keywords are growing, and where?" Read rankedByGrowth from OUTPUT, or use the trend and growthScore fields of each dataset row.