Google Trends Scraper — Daily Trending Searches by Country with News & Traffic

What a country is searching for right now, with approximate traffic, the news stories driving each trend, and optionally the autocomplete queries people type next.

Works for every country Google publishes trends for — US, GB, KR, DE, IN, JP, BR and the rest — in one run.

Built on the boring endpoint, on purpose

Google exposes trends two ways: the /trends/api/explore widget flow, and a plain RSS feed.

Explore is the one most scrapers use, and it is fragile — it returned HTTP 429 on the very first unauthenticated call during our testing, and it needs a two-step token handshake that breaks whenever Google reshuffles its widget IDs. The most-used Google Trends actor on this store currently runs a 23.2% failure rate at 3.64★, which is what that fragility looks like in production.

This one reads the RSS feed: a small, stable, cacheable document. Choosing the boring endpoint is the entire competitive move.

Input

{
  "geos": ["US", "GB", "KR"],
  "minTraffic": 5000,
  "includeNews": true,
  "expandWithAutocomplete": true,
  "mustContain": ["ai", "crypto"]
}

Output

{
  "geo": "US",
  "keyword": "extreme heat warning",
  "approxTraffic": "500+",
  "approxTrafficNumber": 500,
  "pubDate": "Tue, 12 Aug 2026 09:40:00 -0700",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-12T17:05:11.402Z",
  "news": [
    {
      "title": "UK heatwave live: Burnham considers ban on disposable barbecues",
      "url": "https://…",
      "source": "The Guardian"
    }
  ],
  "relatedQueries": ["extreme heat warning today", "extreme heat warning meaning", "…"]
}

scrapedAt is stamped on every row so scheduled runs build a clean time series.

Common uses

• Newsjacking — schedule it hourly with mustContain on your category and publish while a trend is live.
• Content calendars — expandWithAutocomplete turns a bare trend into actual article angles.
• Market monitoring — track when your brand, a competitor, or a category breaks into a country's trends.
• Trend datasets — run daily across many countries and accumulate history.
• Ad targeting — catch rising terms before the keyword tools update.

Pricing

Pay per trend delivered. Trends removed by your traffic or keyword filters cost nothing.

Starting a run costs $0.00004 — the platform's $0.00001 minimum, charged once per GB of memory, and these Actors run on 4 GB. That is four cents per thousand runs, and it is the only charge not tied to a row you received.

FAQ

How many trends per country? Google publishes roughly 10–20 per country per day in this feed.

Can I get historical interest-over-time? Not from this actor. That data only exists behind the explore API, which is the unreliable path this deliberately avoids.

How fresh is it? As fresh as Google's feed, which updates through the day. pubDate tells you when the trend started.

Can I run it on a schedule? Yes — that is the main use. Apify Schedules, webhooks, or the API. Also available over MCP for AI agents.