Google Trending Now: Top Searches by Country

Google Trending Now gets the searches trending on Google right now, for one country or fifty, with Google's traffic estimate, the time each trend started and the news stories driving it.

• Many countries in one run. Pass US, CA, GB, IN and more; each trend comes back tagged with its country and rank.
• Numbers you can sort. Google's "10K+" labels are also given as plain numbers.
• The why behind each trend: up to three related news articles with source, link and image.

What trending search data you get

Field	What it holds
country, rank	Country code and position in Google's list
query	The trending search
approxTraffic, approxTrafficMin	Google's label (like 20K+) and the same as a number
startedAt	When the trend started
picture, pictureSource	The image Google shows and its publisher
news	Related articles: title, URL, source, image
exploreUrl	Link to the term on Google Trends for the past day

How to get Google trending searches

1. Add country codes, for example US and CA.
2. Keep Include news stories on if you want the articles.
3. Run it, or schedule it every hour to build your own history of what trended and when.

Example input

{ "countries": ["US", "CA", "GB"], "includeNews": true }

Example output (one trend, shortened)

{
  "country": "CA",
  "rank": 1,
  "query": "zimbabwe vs india",
  "approxTraffic": "200+",
  "approxTrafficMin": 200,
  "startedAt": "2026-10-28T09:50:00.000Z",
  "news": [
    { "title": "India vs Zimbabwe Women 3rd ODI Live Score ...", "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...", "source": "The Times of India" }
  ],
  "exploreUrl": "https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=zimbabwe+vs+india&geo=CA&date=now+1-d"
}

How much does it cost?

You pay per trend saved: $0.002 per trend, plus $0.0005 once per run. Google lists up to 10 trends per country at a time, so checking 10 countries returns about 100 trends and costs about $0.20. An hourly schedule for one country is about 240 trends a day, roughly $0.50. Unknown country codes cost nothing and are listed in the PROBLEMS record of the run.

Trending searches use cases

• Newsrooms and content creators: find what people are searching for before you write or film.
• Marketers: jump on rising topics in each market you sell to.
• Data collection: schedule hourly runs to keep a history of trends by country.
• AI agents: give an agent a fresh "what is happening now" feed through the Apify MCP server.

FAQ

Why only about 10 trends per country? That is how many Google's own trending feed publishes at a time. Run it on a schedule to capture more over a day.

How fresh is the data? It is read from Google the moment the Actor runs.

Does it work for every country? It works for every country Google Trends covers. Codes Google does not support are skipped with a message.

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