Google Trends Scraper

Get Google Trends data as clean JSON: interest over time, interest by region, related queries, related topics, term comparison, and the current Trending Now list for any country.

HTTP-only (no browser), so it is fast and cheap to run. Google Trends rate-limits aggressively — the scraper retries with back-off, renews its session, and switches to Apify Proxy on its own when needed, so a run does not die on the first 429.

What you get

One result per search term (or per comparison group):

{
  "searchTerm": "bitcoin",
  "geo": "US",
  "timeRange": "today 12-m",
  "category": 0,
  "property": "web",
  "timeline": [
    { "date": "Oct 5 – 11, 2025", "timestamp": "2025-10-05T00:00:00Z", "value": 61, "isPartial": false }
  ],
  "regions": [
    { "geoCode": "US-NV", "geoName": "Nevada", "value": 100 }
  ],
  "regionResolution": "REGION",
  "relatedQueries": {
    "top":    [{ "query": "bitcoin price", "value": 100, "formattedValue": "100", "link": "https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=bitcoin+price..." }],
    "rising": [{ "query": "...", "value": 4950, "formattedValue": "+4,950%", "link": "..." }]
  },
  "relatedTopics": {
    "top":    [{ "title": "Bitcoin", "type": "Cryptocurrency", "mid": "/m/05p0rrx", "value": 100, "formattedValue": "100", "link": "..." }],
    "rising": []
  },
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-08T12:00:00+00:00"
}

With Compare terms on, terms are grouped by up to 5 (Google's limit) and share one 0–100 scale: timeline[].values and regions[].values become objects keyed by term, averages holds the average for each term, and relatedQueries is keyed by term (Google does not provide related topics in comparison mode).

If Google returned only part of the blocks, the result has a missing array listing the blocks that could not be fetched.

Trending Now results (one per trend):

{
  "type": "trendingNow", "geo": "US", "position": 1, "title": "cnbc",
  "approxTraffic": "1000+", "approxTrafficNumber": 1000, "startedAt": "2026-10-08T10:50:00Z",
  "news": [{ "title": "...", "url": "https://...", "source": "CNBC", "picture": "https://..." }],
  "exploreUrl": "https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=cnbc&geo=US&date=now%201-d"
}

Input

Field	Description
searchTerms	Keywords, one result each
compare	Compare terms on one scale, in groups of up to 5
geo	US, GB, US-CA ... empty = worldwide
timeRange	Past hour … past 5 years, or 2004–present
customTimeRange	2024-01-01 2024-12-31 (overrides timeRange)
property	web, images, news, youtube, froogle (Shopping)
category	Google Trends category ID, 0 = all
interestOverTime, interestByRegion, relatedQueries, relatedTopics	Which blocks to extract
regionResolution	COUNTRY, REGION, CITY, DMA
trendingNowCountries	Country codes for the Trending Now list
proxyConfiguration	Optional — the scraper picks a proxy itself when Google blocks

Notes

• Values are Google's relative 0–100 index, not absolute search volume.
• Hourly ranges (now 1-H, now 1-d, now 7-d) return minute/hour-level points.
• You are charged only for results actually delivered.