Google Trends Trending Now Scraper — Daily & Real-Time Searches

This actor returns the trending searches of Google Trends "Trending Now" for any country or subregion: the trend title, search volume, growth percentage, start and end time, categories, related queries and linked news articles. One flat row per trend, no login, many countries in a single run.

What does this actor do?

Give it a list of country codes (US, DE, JP) or subregions (US-CA, GB-SCT) and a time window from 1 to 168 hours. It reads the same Trending Now list that is shown on trends.google.com/trending and returns one row per trending search, with searchVolume, increasePercentage, startedAt, endedAt, isActive, categories, relatedQueries and newsArticles.

It is built for content and SEO teams, newsrooms, marketers, traders and alert bots, and for AI agents that answer "what is trending in Germany right now?".

How to use

1. Open the actor in Apify Console and click Try for free.
2. Enter one or more country codes under Countries or subregions (default US).
3. Choose the time window in hours (default 24), and optionally categories, status, minimum search volume and sort order.
4. Click Start and download the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or read it through the API.

AI agents can call the actor through the Apify API or Apify MCP server with the same input JSON.

Pricing

Pay per event:

Event	Price
Trending search (one row)	$0.00085 — $0.85 per 1,000 trends
Actor start	$0.00005 (Apify's standard start price, per GB of memory)

Example: the top 100 US trends of the past 24 hours cost about $0.085 plus the start fee. Unsupported geos, empty lists and trends skipped by "Only new trends" are free. Apify subscription tiers may give discounts.

Input

Field	What it does
geos	Country (ISO 3166-1) or subregion (ISO 3166-2) codes, one per line. Default ["US"].
hours	Trends started in the past N hours, 1–168 (website windows: 4, 24, 48, 168). Default 24.
maxItemsPerGeo	Max trends per geo after filters and sorting, 1–5000. Default 100.
sortBy	relevance, searchVolume, recency or title.
categories	Keep trends in any of 19 categories (sports, politics, technology…). Empty = all.
status	all, active or ended.
minSearchVolume	Keep trends with at least this search volume.
includeNews, newsPerTrend	Add 1–30 news articles per trend (default 3).
onlyNew, onlyNewKey	Return only trends not returned by earlier runs with the same memory name.
maxItems	Total cap across all geos.
language	Interface language (hl), default en-US.

Example input:

{
  "geos": ["US", "GB", "DE"],
  "hours": 24,
  "sortBy": "searchVolume",
  "maxItemsPerGeo": 25,
  "newsPerTrend": 3
}

Output

Field	Meaning
position	Rank in the sorted list of the geo
title	The trending search
geo, country	Requested geo code and its country
searchVolume, searchVolumeFormatted	Google's lower-bound volume (e.g. 500000, "500K+")
increasePercentage	Growth in searches (Google caps it at 1000)
startedAt, endedAt, isActive	Start and end time (null while still active)
categories, category	Google categories of the trend
relatedQueries	Queries related to the trend
newsArticles, newsArticleCount	Articles with title, url, source, publishedAt, imageUrl
topNewsTitle, topNewsUrl, topNewsSource, imageUrl	First article as flat columns for spreadsheets
url, scrapedAt	Google Trends explore link and scrape time

Example item (shortened):

{
  "position": 1,
  "title": "knicks vs celtics",
  "geo": "US",
  "country": "US",
  "timeWindowHours": 24,
  "searchVolume": 500000,
  "searchVolumeFormatted": "500K+",
  "increasePercentage": 1000,
  "startedAt": "2026-10-23T20:50:00.000Z",
  "endedAt": null,
  "isActive": true,
  "categories": ["Sports"],
  "relatedQueries": ["knicks vs celtics", "bulls vs bucks", "hawks vs hornets"],
  "newsArticleCount": 52,
  "newsArticles": [
    {
      "title": "Houston Rockets vs San Antonio Spurs Oct 23, 2026 Box Scores",
      "url": "https://www.nba.com/game/hou-vs-sas-0022600009/box-score",
      "source": "NBA.com",
      "publishedAt": "2026-10-23T20:25:58.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "topNewsSource": "NBA.com",
  "url": "https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=knicks+vs+celtics&date=now+7-d&geo=US&hl=en-US",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-24T09:50:10.246Z"
}

Use cases

• Daily topic research for newsrooms and content teams: the top trends of a market with news links.
• Multi-market monitoring: compare the biggest trends of several countries in one dataset.
• Niche tracking: active sports, technology or politics trends of a state or region.
• Scheduled alerts: run hourly with "Only new trends" and a minimum search volume to get only fresh trends.
• Research exports: the full 7-day list of a country as CSV, without news, for analysis.

Limitations

• Trending Now has no worldwide list; only supported countries (about 125) and their subregions. Unsupported codes such as CN are skipped with a warning.
• The window always ends now; there are no historical dates.
• Search volumes are coarse lower bounds, not exact numbers, and increasePercentage is capped at 1000.
• The same title can appear twice in one geo and window with different start times.
• Large 7-day lists (the US has about 3,400 trends) take longer, especially with news.
• The data comes from an undocumented Google endpoint that can change without notice.
• Trend titles are not translated by language; news follows the trend's geo.

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Google Trends? The actor reads public data shown on trends.google.com without login and returns no personal data beyond what the page shows. You are responsible for using the data in line with Google's terms and the laws that apply to you.

How is this different from a Google Trends interest scraper? This actor lists what is trending now, per country and time window. For interest over time of your own keywords, see the actor below.

Can I get only new trends on each run? Yes. Turn on onlyNew and give each schedule its own onlyNewKey. Skipped trends are not charged.

Can I turn off news? Yes, set includeNews to false for faster runs.

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Related Google data actors from the same author:

• Google Trends Scraper — Interest, Regions & Related Queries — interest over time and by region for your own search terms.
• Google Ads Transparency Scraper — Domain & Advertiser Ads — ads of any domain or advertiser.
• Google Play Reviews Scraper — Ratings, Replies & Versions — app reviews from Google Play.