Google Trending Now

An Apify Actor that fetches real-time Google Trends data and saves the results to an Apify Dataset.

What does this Actor do?

This Actor:

1. Accepts configurable parameters (country, language, time window, category, sort order, status)
2. Fetches the latest trending searches from Google Trends
3. Returns structured data including titles, search volumes, growth percentages, and related queries

Perfect for trend monitoring, content strategy, SEO research, market analysis, and real-time search intelligence.

Why use Google Trending Now?

• Real-time data — Access the latest Google Trends data as it happens
• Flexible filtering — Filter by country, language, time window, category, and status
• Multiple sort options — Sort by relevance, search volume, recency, or title
• Two output modes — Get the full response or flattened records for easy table viewing
• 20 category filters — From Sports and Technology to Politics and Climate
• Production-ready — Clean error handling with descriptive failure messages

Input Schema

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
geo	string	Yes	"US"	Two-letter country code (see table below)
hl	string	No	"en"	Language code (e.g. en, it, es, de, ... see table below)
hours	integer	No	24	Time window. Options: 4, 24, 48, 168
cat	integer	No	0	Category ID filter (see table below)
sort	string	No	"relevance"	Sort order: relevance, search_volume, recency, title
status	string	No	"all"	Trend status filter: all, active
max_items	integer	No	2000	Maximum number of trending items to return

See some example:

Description	cat	geo	hl	hours	sort	status	JSON Input
All trending topics in the US, last 24 hours	0	US	en	24	relevance	all	{"cat": "0", "geo": "US", "hl": "en", "hours": "24", "sort": "relevance", "status": "all"}
Sports trends in the UK, last 48 hours, order by search volume	17	GB	en	48	search_volume	all	{"cat": "17", "geo": "GB", "hl": "en", "hours": "48", "sort": "search_volume", "status": "all"}
Active entertainment trends sorted by search volume, status active	4	US	en	48	relevance	active	{"cat": "4", "geo": "US", "hl": "en", "hours": "48", "sort": "relevance", "status": "active"}
Trending in Germany, last 7 days, in German, order by search volume, status active	0	DE	en	168	search_volume	active	{"cat": "0", "geo": "DE", "hl": "en", "hours": "168", "sort": "search_volume", "status": "active"}
Technology trends, most recent first	0	DE	en	168	recency	active	{"cat": "0", "geo": "DE", "hl": "en", "hours": "168", "sort": "recency", "status": "active"}

Category IDs

ID	Category
0	All categories
1	Autos and Vehicles
2	Beauty and Fashion
3	Business and Finance
4	Entertainment
5	Food and Drink
6	Games
7	Health
8	Hobbies and Leisure
9	Jobs and Education
10	Law and Government
11	Other
13	Pets and Animals
14	Politics
15	Science
16	Shopping
17	Sports
18	Technology
19	Travel and Transportation
20	Climate

Country Code

Country Code	Description	Country Code	Description	Country Code	Description	Country Code	Description	Country Code	Description
AD	Andorra	AE	United Arab Emirates	AF	Afghanistan	AG	Antigua and Barbuda	AI	Anguilla
AL	Albania	AM	Armenia	AO	Angola	AQ	Antarctica	AR	Argentina
AS	American Samoa	AT	Austria	AU	Australia	AW	Aruba	AX	Åland Islands
AZ	Azerbaijan	BA	Bosnia and Herzegovina	BB	Barbados	BD	Bangladesh	BE	Belgium
BF	Burkina Faso	BG	Bulgaria	BH	Bahrain	BI	Burundi	BJ	Benin
BL	Saint Barthélemy	BM	Bermuda	BN	Brunei Darussalam	BO	Bolivia	BQ	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
BR	Brazil	BS	Bahamas	BT	Bhutan	BV	Bouvet Island	BW	Botswana
BY	Belarus	BZ	Belize	CA	Canada	CC	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	CD	Democratic Republic of the Congo
CF	Central African Republic	CG	Republic of the Congo	CH	Switzerland	CI	Côte d'Ivoire	CK	Cook Islands
CL	Chile	CM	Cameroon	CN	China	CO	Colombia	CR	Costa Rica
CU	Cuba	CV	Cabo Verde	CW	Curaçao	CX	Christmas Island	CY	Cyprus
CZ	Czechia	DE	Germany	DJ	Djibouti	DK	Denmark	DM	Dominica
DO	Dominican Republic	DZ	Algeria	EC	Ecuador	EE	Estonia	EG	Egypt
EH	Western Sahara	ER	Eritrea	ES	Spain	ET	Ethiopia	FI	Finland
FJ	Fiji	FK	Falkland Islands	FM	Micronesia	FO	Faroe Islands	FR	France
GA	Gabon	GB	United Kingdom	GD	Grenada	GE	Georgia	GF	French Guiana
GG	Guernsey	GH	Ghana	GI	Gibraltar	GL	Greenland	GM	Gambia
GN	Guinea	GP	Guadeloupe	GQ	Equatorial Guinea	GR	Greece	GS	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
GT	Guatemala	GU	Guam	GW	Guinea-Bissau	GY	Guyana	HK	Hong Kong
HM	Heard Island and McDonald Islands	HN	Honduras	HR	Croatia	HT	Haiti	HU	Hungary
ID	Indonesia	IE	Ireland	IL	Israel	IM	Isle of Man	IN	India
IO	British Indian Ocean Territory	IQ	Iraq	IR	Iran	IS	Iceland	IT	Italy
JE	Jersey	JM	Jamaica	JO	Jordan	JP	Japan	KE	Kenya
KG	Kyrgyzstan	KH	Cambodia	KI	Kiribati	KM	Comoros	KN	Saint Kitts and Nevis
KP	North Korea	KR	South Korea	KW	Kuwait	KY	Cayman Islands	KZ	Kazakhstan
LA	Laos	LB	Lebanon	LC	Saint Lucia	LI	Liechtenstein	LK	Sri Lanka
LR	Liberia	LS	Lesotho	LT	Lithuania	LU	Luxembourg	LV	Latvia
LY	Libya	MA	Morocco	MC	Monaco	MD	Moldova	ME	Montenegro
MF	Saint Martin	MG	Madagascar	MH	Marshall Islands	MK	North Macedonia	ML	Mali
MM	Myanmar	MN	Mongolia	MO	Macao	MP	Northern Mariana Islands	MQ	Martinique
MR	Mauritania	MS	Montserrat	MT	Malta	MU	Mauritius	MV	Maldives
MW	Malawi	MX	Mexico	MY	Malaysia	MZ	Mozambique	NA	Namibia
NC	New Caledonia	NE	Niger	NF	Norfolk Island	NG	Nigeria	NI	Nicaragua
NL	Netherlands	NO	Norway	NP	Nepal	NR	Nauru	NU	Niue
NZ	New Zealand	OM	Oman	PA	Panama	PE	Peru	PF	French Polynesia
PG	Papua New Guinea	PH	Philippines	PK	Pakistan	PL	Poland	PM	Saint Pierre and Miquelon
PN	Pitcairn	PR	Puerto Rico	PS	Palestine	PT	Portugal	PW	Palau
PY	Paraguay	QA	Qatar	RE	Réunion	RO	Romania	RS	Serbia
RU	Russia	RW	Rwanda	SA	Saudi Arabia	SB	Solomon Islands	SC	Seychelles
SD	Sudan	SE	Sweden	SG	Singapore	SH	Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha	SI	Slovenia
SJ	Svalbard and Jan Mayen	SK	Slovakia	SL	Sierra Leone	SM	San Marino	SN	Senegal
SO	Somalia	SR	Suriname	SS	South Sudan	ST	Sao Tome and Principe	SV	El Salvador
SX	Sint Maarten	SY	Syria	SZ	Eswatini	TC	Turks and Caicos Islands	TD	Chad
TF	French Southern Territories	TG	Togo	TH	Thailand	TJ	Tajikistan	TK	Tokelau
TL	Timor-Leste	TM	Turkmenistan	TN	Tunisia	TO	Tonga	TR	Türkiye
TT	Trinidad and Tobago	TV	Tuvalu	TW	Taiwan	TZ	Tanzania	UA	Ukraine
UG	Uganda	UM	United States Minor Outlying Islands	US	United States	UY	Uruguay	UZ	Uzbekistan
VA	Holy See	VC	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	VE	Venezuela	VG	Virgin Islands (British)	VI	Virgin Islands (U.S.)
VN	Viet Nam	VU	Vanuatu	WF	Wallis and Futuna	WS	Samoa	YE	Yemen
YT	Mayotte	ZA	South Africa	ZM	Zambia	ZW	Zimbabwe

Language Code

Language Code	Description	Language Code	Description	Language Code	Description	Language Code	Description	Language Code	Description
aa	Afar	ab	Abkhazian	af	Afrikaans	am	Amharic	ar	Arabic
as	Assamese	ay	Aymara	az	Azerbaijani	ba	Bashkir	be	Belarusian
bg	Bulgarian	bh	Bihari	bi	Bislama	bn	Bengali	bo	Tibetan
br	Breton	ca	Catalan	co	Corsican	cs	Czech	cy	Welsh
da	Danish	de	German	dz	Bhutani	el	Greek	en	English
eo	Esperanto	es	Spanish	et	Estonian	eu	Basque	fa	Persian
fi	Finnish	fj	Fiji	fo	Faroese	fr	French	fy	Frisian
ga	Irish	gd	Scots Gaelic	gl	Galician	gn	Guarani	gu	Gujarati
ha	Hausa	he	Hebrew	hi	Hindi	hr	Croatian	hu	Hungarian
hy	Armenian	ia	Interlingua	id	Indonesian	ie	Interlingue	ik	Inupiak
is	Icelandic	it	Italian	iu	Inuktitut	ja	Japanese	jw	Javanese
ka	Georgian	kk	Kazakh	kl	Greenlandic	km	Cambodian	kn	Kannada
ko	Korean	ks	Kashmiri	ku	Kurdish	ky	Kirghiz	la	Latin
ln	Lingala	lo	Laothian	lt	Lithuanian	lv	Latvian	mg	Malagasy
mi	Maori	mk	Macedonian	ml	Malayalam	mn	Mongolian	mo	Moldavian
mr	Marathi	ms	Malay	mt	Maltese	my	Burmese	na	Nauru
ne	Nepali	nl	Dutch	no	Norwegian	oc	Occitan	om	Oromo
or	Oriya	pa	Punjabi	pl	Polish	ps	Pashto	pt	Portuguese
qu	Quechua	rm	Rhaeto-Romance	rn	Kirundi	ro	Romanian	ru	Russian
rw	Kinyarwanda	sa	Sanskrit	sd	Sindhi	sg	Sangro	sh	Serbo-Croatian
si	Singhalese	sk	Slovak	sl	Slovenian	sm	Samoan	sn	Shona
so	Somali	sq	Albanian	sr	Serbian	ss	Siswati	st	Sesotho
su	Sundanese	sv	Swedish	sw	Swahili	ta	Tamil	te	Telugu
tg	Tajik	th	Thai	ti	Tigrinya	tk	Turkmen	tl	Tagalog
tn	Setswana	to	Tonga	tr	Turkish	ts	Tsonga	tt	Tatar
tw	Twi	ug	Uighur	uk	Ukrainian	ur	Urdu	uz	Uzbek
vi	Vietnamese	vo	Volapuk	wo	Wolof	xh	Xhosa	yi	Yiddish
yo	Yoruba	za	Zhuang	zh	Chinese	zu	Zulu

Example Input

{
    "cat": "0",
    "geo": "US",
    "hl": "en",
    "hours": "168",
    "max_items": 3,
    "sort": "search_volume",
    "status": "all"
}

Output

Each trend is pushed as an individual record to the Apify Dataset, with search_parameters included:

[
  {
    "title": "tim curry",
    "search_volume": 5000000,
    "growth_percentage": 1000,
    "started_at": 1787757000,
    "status": "active",
    "related_queries": [
      "tim curry",
      "rocky horror picture show",
      "tim curry movies",
      "tim curry died",
      "was tim curry gay",
      "rocky horror",
      "tim.curry",
      "tim curry movies and tv shows",
      "home alone",
      "tim curry death",
      "tim curry cause of death",
      "tim curry stroke",
      "tom curry",
      "tim curry home alone",
      "home alone 2",
      "how did tim curry die",
      "jim curry",
      "home alone cast",
      "clue movie",
      "who is tim curry",
      "when did tim curry die",
      "clue",
      "home alone 2 cast",
      "the rocky horror picture show",
      "did tim curry die",
      "tim curry gay",
      "tim",
      "tim curry dead",
      "tim curry wife",
      "nigel thornberry",
      "tim curry home alone 2",
      "tim curry rocky horror",
      "tim curry age",
      "tim curry pennywise",
      "dr frank n furter",
      "susan sarandon",
      "tim curry criminal minds",
      "tim curry legend",
      "tim curry clue",
      "frank n furter",
      "legend",
      "what did tim curry die of",
      "tim curry imdb",
      "tom curry actor",
      "tm curry",
      "was tim curry ever married",
      "timmy curry",
      "lesley ann warren",
      "tim. curry",
      "muppet treasure island",
      "tim curry death cause",
      "did tim curry really die",
      "legend 1985",
      "time curry",
      "is tim curry still alive",
      "tim curry.",
      "pennywise actor",
      "tim curry actor",
      "tim carry",
      "tim curry net worth",
      "home alone 2 tim curry",
      "luke evans",
      "did tim curry pass away",
      "actor tim curry passing",
      "tim curry los feliz home sale",
      "tim curry how did he die",
      "actor tim curry",
      "is tim curry dead",
      "tim.curry movies",
      "is tim curry still alive?",
      "tim curru",
      "actor died today",
      "brutal legend",
      "tim curry and dolly parton",
      "tim curry die",
      "what celebrity died today",
      "tim curry dies",
      "tim curry movie",
      "tim curry alive",
      "how old was tim curry",
      "tim curry passed away",
      "tim curry now",
      "legend tim curry",
      "was tim curry in home alone",
      "tim curry rocky horror picture show",
      "tim curry filmography",
      "tim curry films",
      "tim death",
      "tim curry in home alone",
      "where to watch rocky horror picture show",
      "did tim curry die?",
      "tim curry news",
      "tim curry dead?",
      "tim curry space",
      "what did tim curry die from",
      "tom curry movies",
      "tim curry died?",
      "rim curry",
      "tim curry career and roles",
      "tim.curry now",
      "tim curry passed",
      "tim died",
      "tim curry passing",
      "did tim curry die today",
      "did tim curry pass away?",
      "whos tim curry",
      "how did tim curry pass away",
      "who was tim curry",
      "when did tim curry pass away",
      "tim curry muppets",
      "tim curry 2026",
      "tim curry passing at 80",
      "celebrity deaths today",
      "tom.curry",
      "tim curry illness",
      "ti curry",
      "has tim curry died",
      "bbc news tim curry",
      "home alone tim curry",
      "what happened to tim curry",
      "tim curry movies and shows",
      "tim curry in home alone 2",
      "tim curry tmz",
      "who died",
      "tim curry partner",
      "tim.curry death",
      "tim curry die?",
      "tim curry voice acting",
      "when did tim curry pass",
      "tim curry health",
      "tim curry disease",
      "pennywise tim curry",
      "rip tim curry",
      "tim curry nyt",
      "tim curry frank n furter",
      "tim curry desth",
      "what did tim curry play in",
      "british actor tim curry passing",
      "ti. curry",
      "tim curry death date",
      "tim curry -ai",
      "actor who died today",
      "tim curry shows",
      "tim curry command and conquer",
      "tim curry dead or alive",
      "tim curry did he die",
      "jaye p morgan home alone",
      "tim curry red alert",
      "how old is tim curry",
      "tmz tim curry",
      "tim dead",
      "tim curry died 2026"
    ],
    "category_ids": [
      4
    ],
    "trend_url": "https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=tim+curry&geo=US",
    "search_parameters": {
      "geo": "US",
      "hl": "en",
      "hours": 168,
      "cat": 0,
      "sort": "search_volume",
      "status": "all"
    },
    "category_description": [
      "Entertainment"
    ]
  },
  {
    "title": "peter cullen",
    "search_volume": 2000000,
    "growth_percentage": 1000,
    "started_at": 1787815200,
    "status": "active",
    "related_queries": [
      "peter cullen",
      "transformers",
      "optimus prime",
      "optimus prime voice",
      "peter cullen movies",
      "transformers optimus prime awakening",
      "peter cullen dead",
      "eeyore",
      "voice of optimus prime",
      "transformers movies",
      "winnie the pooh",
      "celebrity deaths this week",
      "optimus prime voice actor",
      "eeyore voice actor",
      "optimus prime death",
      "peter cullen death",
      "did peter cullen die",
      "peter cullen cause of death",
      "who died yesterday",
      "peter cullen voices",
      "peter cullen invincible",
      "peter cullen movies and tv shows",
      "optimus prime voice actor died",
      "voice of eeyore",
      "how did peter cullen die",
      "when did peter cullen die",
      "transformers voice actor peter cullen passes",
      "voice actor for optimus prime",
      "who voiced optimus prime",
      "petter cullen",
      "peter cullen age",
      "what actor died today",
      "invincible",
      "who is peter cullen",
      "peter cullen eeyore",
      "optimus prime actor",
      "peter cullen optimus prime",
      "is peter cullen still alive",
      "pete cullen",
      "peter cullen winnie the pooh",
      "optimus prime dead",
      "optimus",
      "is peter cullen dead",
      "optimus prime voice actors",
      "cullen",
      "peter",
      "who passed away today",
      "optimus prime died",
      "eeyore from winnie the pooh",
      "peter cullen transformers",
      "peter.cullen",
      "peter cullen imdb",
      "the voice of optimus prime",
      "voice actor of optimus prime",
      "perer cullen",
      "who voices optimus prime"
    ],
    "category_ids": [
      4
    ],
    "trend_url": "https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=peter+cullen&geo=US",
    "search_parameters": {
      "geo": "US",
      "hl": "en",
      "hours": 168,
      "cat": 0,
      "sort": "search_volume",
      "status": "all"
    },
    "category_description": [
      "Entertainment"
    ]
  },
  {
    "title": "lindsay clancy",
    "search_volume": 1000000,
    "growth_percentage": 100,
    "started_at": 1787851800,
    "ended_at": 1787967600,
    "status": "ended",
    "related_queries": [
      "lindsay clancy",
      "verdict lindsay clancy",
      "lindsay clancy update",
      "clancy trial verdict",
      "what happens if there's a hung jury",
      "clancy",
      "lindsay clancy live trial today",
      "clancy trial live",
      "lindsey clancy",
      "clancy trial update",
      "clancy trial",
      "what does deadlock jury mean",
      "lindsay clancy closing arguments",
      "what does a hung jury mean",
      "is there a verdict in the lindsay clancy case",
      "lindsay clancy trial live",
      "lindsey clancy verdict",
      "court tv live",
      "lindsey clancy trial updates",
      "tuey rodriguez instructions",
      "lindsay clancey",
      "deadlocked",
      "what happens when there is a hung jury",
      "what is a deadlocked jury",
      "what happens if a jury is deadlocked",
      "deadlock jury",
      "what happens in a hung jury",
      "lindsay clancy verdict yet",
      "lindsay clancy jury deliberation",
      "why is lindsay clancy in a wheelchair",
      "lindsay clancy trial verdict",
      "deadlocked jury meaning",
      "what does hung jury mean",
      "what does deadlocked jury mean",
      "lyndsay clancy",
      "hung jury what happens",
      "clancy jury",
      "lindsay clancy jury",
      "karen read",
      "lindsay clancy trial update",
      "jury deadlock meaning",
      "why is lindsay clancy in a wheelchair in the courtroom",
      "lindsay clancy verdict notification",
      "what does it mean when a jury is deadlocked",
      "lindsay clancy verdict day",
      "clancy trial verdict update",
      "clancy trial closing arguments",
      "what happens if jury cant reach a verdict",
      "what happens if a jury cant reach a verdict",
      "clancy trial live today",
      "lindsay clancy verdict options",
      "lindsay clancy trial live today",
      "lindsey clancy trial live",
      "what happens when a jury is deadlocked",
      "lindsay clancy verdict update",
      "lindsay clancy final results",
      "lindsay clancy live updates",
      "clancy trial today",
      "who is lindsay clancy",
      "what does a deadlocked jury mean",
      "what is deadlocked jury",
      "lindsay clancy case",
      "what is a hung jury mean",
      "deadlock jury meaning",
      "what happens if there is a hung jury",
      "lindsey clancy trial",
      "what does a deadlock jury mean",
      "kevin reddington",
      "psychiatrist",
      "closing arguments for lindsay clancy",
      "bowden charge",
      "lindsay clancy hung jury",
      "bowden instruction",
      "what happens if a jury is hung",
      "lindsay clancy live",
      "lindsay clancy verdict odds",
      "clancy verdict update",
      "lindsay clancey verdict",
      "clancy trial recap",
      "court tv live stream",
      "lindsey clancy trial update",
      "lindsay clancy trial live day 22",
      "jennifer sprague",
      "lindsay clancy husband",
      "lindsay clancy verdict jury",
      "susan smith",
      "lindsay clancy trial live updates",
      "lindsay clancy trial day 21",
      "lindsay clancy paralyzed",
      "lindsay clancy trial live day 21",
      "lindsay clancy day 21",
      "lindsey clancy trial today",
      "what time does the lindsay clancy trial resume today",
      "live lindsay clancy trial",
      "verdict on lindsay clancy",
      "what did lindsay clancy do"
    ],
    "category_ids": [
      10
    ],
    "trend_url": "https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=lindsay+clancy&geo=US",
    "search_parameters": {
      "geo": "US",
      "hl": "en",
      "hours": 168,
      "cat": 0,
      "sort": "search_volume",
      "status": "all"
    },
    "category_description": [
      "Law and Government"
    ]
  }
]

Error Handling

The Actor fails gracefully with descriptive messages for:

Scenario	Behavior
HTTP 4xx/5xx errors	Actor.fail() with status code and response preview
Network timeout	Actor.fail() with timeout duration
Invalid JSON response	Actor.fail() with parse error details