# Google Trends Scraper: Fast, No Browser (`inimi/google-trends-scraper-fast-no-browser`) Actor

Fast Google Trends API without a browser: interest over time, interest by region and top & rising related queries for any keyword, plus daily trending searches with news. Compare up to 5 terms, any country, time range, category or search type. Proxies included.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/inimi/google-trends-scraper-fast-no-browser.md
- **Developed by:** [Inimi](https://apify.com/inimi) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $4.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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

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

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# README

## Google Trends Scraper: Fast, No Browser

Get **Google Trends data for any keyword in seconds**: interest over time, interest by region, and top & rising related searches, for any country, time range, category or search type. Plus a **Trending now** mode with today's trending searches and the news stories behind them.

This Actor talks to Google Trends directly instead of driving a browser, so it is **fast (usually 5-20 seconds per keyword) and cheap**. Residential proxies are included in the price, so blocks are handled for you.

### What can you use it for?

- **SEO & content planning**: find rising searches before your competitors write about them.
- **Product & market research**: compare demand for brands, products or features across countries and states.
- **E-commerce & seasonality**: see when demand for a product peaks during the year.
- **Investing & trend research**: track search interest as a leading signal.
- **News & social media**: pull today's trending searches with linked news articles, every hour.
- **Dashboards & AI agents**: clean JSON, ready for Google Sheets, BI tools, n8n, Make, Zapier or LLM pipelines.

### Features

| | |
|---|---|
| Interest over time | Full timeline (0-100) with dates, plus the average |
| Interest by region | Countries, or states/regions when a country is selected |
| Related queries | Top and rising (with "Breakout" and +% growth) |
| Related topics | Top and rising (best effort, see FAQ) |
| Compare mode | Up to 5 terms on one shared scale, like the Trends compare view |
| Filters | Country/region, time range (past hour to 2004), custom dates, category, Web/Images/News/Shopping/YouTube |
| Trending now | Daily trending searches per country, with traffic estimate, image and news links |

### How to use

1. Enter your **search terms**, one per line.
2. Pick a **location** (e.g. `US`, `GB`, `DE`, `US-CA`, or leave empty for worldwide) and a **time range**.
3. Optionally turn on **Compare terms** to put them on one scale.
4. Click **Start** and download results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or use the API.

For trending searches, switch **Mode** to **Trending now** and list the countries.

### Input example

```json
{
    "searchTerms": ["chatgpt", "claude ai", "gemini"],
    "geo": "US",
    "timeRange": "today 12-m",
    "compareTerms": false
}
```

### Output example (one row per search term)

```json
{
    "type": "keyword",
    "keyword": "chatgpt",
    "geo": "US",
    "timeRange": "today 12-m",
    "averageInterest": 77,
    "interestOverTime": [
        { "date": "2025-10-19T00:00:00.000Z", "formattedTime": "Oct 19 – 25, 2025", "value": 100, "isPartial": false }
    ],
    "interestByRegion": [
        { "geoCode": "US-CA", "geoName": "California", "value": 100 }
    ],
    "relatedQueries": {
        "top": [{ "query": "chatgpt login", "value": 100, "formattedValue": "100" }],
        "rising": [{ "query": "chatgpt caricature", "value": 3250, "formattedValue": "+3,250%" }]
    },
    "relatedTopics": { "top": [], "rising": [] },
    "comparedWith": [],
    "trendsUrl": "https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=chatgpt&geo=US&date=today+12-m"
}
```

**Trending now** rows look like:

```json
{
    "type": "trendingNow",
    "geo": "US",
    "title": "amon ra st brown",
    "approxTraffic": "1000+",
    "publishedAt": "2026-10-25T20:50:00.000Z",
    "news": [{ "title": "Amon-Ra St. Brown vs. Packers Week 7…", "url": "https://sports.yahoo.com/…", "source": "Yahoo Sports" }]
}
```

### Pricing

You pay **per result row**: one row per search term, or one row per trending search. Proxies and compute are included. Set a maximum cost per run and the Actor stops cleanly when it is reached.

### FAQ

**Why are values 0-100 and not search volumes?**
That's how Google Trends works: 100 is the peak popularity in the chosen time and place. Use **Compare terms** to see terms relative to each other.

**Related topics are empty.**
Google sometimes withholds related topics from automated requests while still returning everything else. Related queries are much more reliable and are usually what you want.

**A run was slow.**
Google rate-limits Trends heavily. When that happens the Actor switches to a new residential IP and retries automatically, which can add a few seconds.

**Can I schedule it?**
Yes. Use Apify Schedules, e.g. run Trending now every hour, or your keyword list every week.

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

"Keywords" gets interest over time, by region and related searches for your terms. "Trending now" gets today's trending searches (with news links) for one or more countries.

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

Keywords or phrases to look up, one per line.

## `compareTerms` (type: `boolean`):

Put terms on one shared 0-100 scale, like the compare view on Google Trends (in groups of up to 5). Off = each term gets its own 0-100 scale.

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

Country or region code, e.g. "US", "GB", "DE", "US-CA". Leave empty for worldwide.

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

Period to analyze. Short ranges (hours/days) return hourly or minute-level data.

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

Overrides the time range. Format: "YYYY-MM-DD YYYY-MM-DD", e.g. "2024-01-01 2024-12-31".

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

Google Trends category ID, e.g. 5 = Computers & Electronics, 7 = Finance, 71 = Food & Drink. 0 = all categories.

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

Which Google product's search data to use.

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

Timeline of search interest (0-100) for the chosen period.

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

Search interest by country, state or region (depends on location).

## `includeRelatedQueries` (type: `boolean`):

Top and rising searches related to each term.

## `includeRelatedTopics` (type: `boolean`):

Top and rising topics related to each term. Best effort: Google sometimes returns no topics for automated requests, in which case the lists are empty.

## `trendingGeos` (type: `array`):

Only used in "Trending now" mode. Country codes, e.g. US, GB, DE, IN.

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

Google rate-limits Trends heavily. Residential proxies are included in the price and strongly recommended.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "keywords",
  "searchTerms": [
    "chatgpt",
    "claude ai",
    "gemini"
  ],
  "compareTerms": false,
  "geo": "",
  "timeRange": "today 12-m",
  "category": 0,
  "property": "",
  "includeInterestOverTime": true,
  "includeInterestByRegion": true,
  "includeRelatedQueries": true,
  "includeRelatedTopics": true,
  "trendingGeos": [
    "US"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

One row per search term (or per trending search).

## `summary` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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",
        "claude ai",
        "gemini"
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("inimi/google-trends-scraper-fast-no-browser").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",
        "claude ai",
        "gemini",
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("inimi/google-trends-scraper-fast-no-browser").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",
    "claude ai",
    "gemini"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call inimi/google-trends-scraper-fast-no-browser --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,inimi/google-trends-scraper-fast-no-browser"
        }
    }
}
```

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/qyLdBmBy4g46HZhku/builds/WCiYbtCMrBN30PpGa/openapi.json