# Google Trends Scraper - Interest, Regions & Trending (`get_anything/google-trends-scraper`) Actor

Get Google Trends data for any keyword: interest over time, interest by country/state/city, related queries and topics (top + rising), across Web, YouTube, News, Images and Shopping. Compare up to 5 keywords or get today's trending searches for any country. No API key.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/get_anything/google-trends-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Get Anything](https://apify.com/get_anything) (community)
- **Categories:** SEO tools, Marketing
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.75 / 1,000 keywords

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Google Trends Scraper - Interest, Regions & Trending

Get **Google Trends data for any keyword** in seconds:

- **Interest over time** (0–100 timeline) with average, peak, peak date and trend direction (rising, falling, stable)
- **Interest by region**: countries, states/provinces, US metro areas or cities
- **Related queries**: top and rising, with % growth or **Breakout**
- **Today's trending searches** for any country, with approximate traffic and the news articles behind them

Works for **Web, YouTube, News, Image and Shopping** search, any country, any time range, any category. **Compare up to 5 keywords** on the same scale.

No API key, no login, no browser. One result row per keyword with everything inside, so it's cheap and easy to use from code, spreadsheets or AI agents.

### What you can do with it

- **SEO and content planning:** find rising queries before they peak and see where demand is.
- **Product and market research:** check whether a product, brand or category is growing or fading, and in which states or countries.
- **E-commerce and dropshipping:** run Google Shopping trends for product ideas.
- **YouTube creators:** YouTube search trends for video topics.
- **Investors and analysts:** add search interest to your models (brands, tickers, crypto).
- **Newsrooms and social media:** daily trending searches per country, with linked news.
- **AI agents (ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor via Apify MCP):** "Is 'AI agents' trending up in the US, and what are the rising related searches?"

### Input

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `searchTerms` | Keywords, e.g. `chatgpt`, `air fryer`. |
| `geo` | `US`, `GB`, `AE`, `US-CA`... Empty = worldwide. |
| `timeRange` | Past hour → 2004–present. `customTimeRange` like `2025-01-01 2025-06-30`. |
| `property` | `web`, `youtube`, `news`, `images`, `shopping`. |
| `category` | Trends category ID (0 = all). |
| `compareKeywords` | Put up to 5 keywords on one 0–100 scale. |
| `includeInterestOverTime` / `includeInterestByRegion` / `includeRelated` | Choose the data you need (all on by default). |
| `regionResolution` | Countries, states, metros or cities. |
| `trendingCountries` | Also get today's trending searches, e.g. `["US", "GB"]`. |

```json
{
  "searchTerms": ["chatgpt", "claude ai", "gemini"],
  "geo": "US",
  "timeRange": "past-12-months",
  "compareKeywords": true,
  "trendingCountries": ["US"]
}
```

### Output

**Keyword**

```json
{
  "resultType": "keyword",
  "keyword": "bitcoin",
  "geo": "US",
  "timeRange": "past-90-days",
  "averageInterest": 48.2,
  "peakInterest": 100,
  "peakDate": "2026-08-14T00:00:00+00:00",
  "trendDirection": "falling",
  "interestOverTime": [{ "date": "2026-07-28T00:00:00+00:00", "formattedTime": "Jul 28, 2026", "value": 52, "isPartial": false }],
  "interestByRegion": [{ "region": "Kansas", "code": "US-KS", "value": 100 }],
  "relatedQueries": {
    "top": [{ "query": "bitcoin price", "value": "100", "score": 100 }],
    "rising": [{ "query": "british man recovers lost bitcoin", "value": "Breakout", "score": 13050 }]
  }
}
```

**Trending search**

```json
{
  "resultType": "trending",
  "geo": "US",
  "query": "stock market crash",
  "approxTraffic": "100+",
  "startedAt": "Tue, 28 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0700",
  "news": [{ "title": "...", "url": "https://...", "source": "Reuters" }]
}
```

Keywords with too little search volume, or a temporary Google rate limit, return one free `error` row.

### Use it from ChatGPT, Claude & AI agents

This Actor works as a tool for AI assistants through the **Apify MCP server**, and the inputs are designed so an agent can fill them in.

- **Claude (claude.ai / Desktop), ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf:** add the MCP server URL below as a custom connector / MCP server and sign in with your Apify account:

  ```
  https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=get_anything/google-trends-scraper
  ```

- **Claude Desktop / Cursor config file:**

  ```json
  { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=get_anything/google-trends-scraper" } } }
  ```

- **Any LLM framework or GPT Action (REST):** one call runs the Actor and returns the results as JSON:

  ```
  POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/get_anything~google-trends-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN
  ```

- **No-code:** Make, Zapier, n8n, LangChain and LlamaIndex have Apify integrations.

Then just ask, for example: *"Compare Google search interest for ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini in the US over the past year."*

### Pricing

Pay per event: you pay per keyword (with timeline, regions and related queries included) and per trending search. Error rows are free. See the Pricing tab.

### FAQ

**Why are values 0–100?** Google Trends doesn't publish absolute volumes. Values are relative to the peak in the chosen place and period. Use `compareKeywords` to put several keywords on the same scale.

**Do I need a proxy?** Google Trends rate-limits busy IPs, so Apify Proxy is on by default. The Actor retries on a new IP automatically.

**Related topics?** Google currently returns no related-topics data through Trends, so only related queries are included.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchTerms` (type: `array`):

Keywords or phrases to get Trends data for, e.g. 'bitcoin', 'ai agents'.

## `geo` (type: `string`):

Two-letter country code (US, GB, AE, IN) or region code (US-CA). Empty = worldwide.

## `timeRange` (type: `string`):

Period to analyse.

## `customTimeRange` (type: `string`):

Optional, overrides Time range. Format 'YYYY-MM-DD YYYY-MM-DD', e.g. '2025-01-01 2025-06-30'.

## `property` (type: `string`):

Which Google search to measure.

## `category` (type: `integer`):

Google Trends category ID (0 = all categories, e.g. 7 = Finance, 18 = Shopping, 958 = Jobs).

## `compareKeywords` (type: `boolean`):

Put up to 5 keywords on the same 0-100 scale (one comparison per group of 5) instead of measuring each separately.

## `includeInterestOverTime` (type: `boolean`):

Timeline of 0-100 interest values plus average, peak and trend direction.

## `includeInterestByRegion` (type: `boolean`):

Interest broken down by sub-region.

## `regionResolution` (type: `string`):

Level for interest by region. Default: countries for worldwide, states/provinces for a country.

## `includeRelated` (type: `boolean`):

Top and rising related search queries (rising shows % growth or Breakout).

## `trendingCountries` (type: `array`):

Optional. Two-letter country codes to also fetch today's trending searches for, e.g. 'US', 'GB'.

## `maxTrendingPerCountry` (type: `integer`):

Maximum trending searches per country.

## `language` (type: `string`):

Interface language for topic names, e.g. en-US, de, ar.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Google Trends rate-limits busy IPs. Apify Proxy (datacenter) is recommended for many keywords.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchTerms": [
    "chatgpt"
  ],
  "geo": "US",
  "timeRange": "past-12-months",
  "property": "web",
  "category": 0,
  "compareKeywords": false,
  "includeInterestOverTime": true,
  "includeInterestByRegion": true,
  "regionResolution": "",
  "includeRelated": true,
  "maxTrendingPerCountry": 20,
  "language": "en-US",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

One item per keyword (with timeline, regions, related) and per trending search.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "searchTerms": [
        "chatgpt"
    ],
    "geo": "US",
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("get_anything/google-trends-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "searchTerms": ["chatgpt"],
    "geo": "US",
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("get_anything/google-trends-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "searchTerms": [
    "chatgpt"
  ],
  "geo": "US",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call get_anything/google-trends-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,get_anything/google-trends-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/hjVHdEo3kMtjSPDjf/builds/869aUnRJdoTA2wIzh/openapi.json