Google Trends Trending Now API — Real-Time Trending Searches

Google Trends Trending Now API gets every trending search from Google Trends Trending Now — not just the 10 items of the RSS feed — for 125 countries and US states/regions in one run. Each trend comes with its search volume, growth %, start and end time, related searches, categories and the news behind it. Schedule it hourly with "Only new trends" and get a clean feed of what just started trending — no repeats.

• 📈 Full lists — 400+ trends for the US in 24 hours, ~5,600 across all countries, exactly what Google's page shows.
• 📰 News for every trend — headline, link, source, time and image (up to 20 articles per trend), included in the price.
• 🌍 Many countries per run — pick countries, all 125 at once, or states and regions like US-CA, GB-ENG, DE-BY.
• 🔔 Only new trends — hourly schedules deliver just the trends you haven't received yet, so you pay for new ones only.
• ⚡ Fast — the US in ~7 seconds, all countries in under 2 minutes, 256 MB memory, no browser.
• 💸 Pay per trend — from $1 per 1,000 trends, no start fee; failures and empty regions are free.

What data does Google Trends Trending Now give you?

For every trending search in the countries and time window you choose:

Field	Example	What it means
trendId	US:rams vs broncos:1790541600	Stable id of this trend (the same search can trend twice in a week)
trend	rams vs broncos	The trending search
geo, geoName	US, United States	Country or region
rank	1	Position in Google's own order
searchVolume, searchVolumeLabel	1000000, 1M+	Searches within the window (Google's bucket)
growthPercent	1000	Increase vs. normal (Google caps it at 1,000%)
isActive, startedAt, endedAt, durationMinutes	true, 2026-09-27T20:40:00Z	Is it still trending, since when, for how long
categories	["Sports"]	Google's categories (Sports, Politics, Entertainment, …)
relatedQueries	["rams", "broncos", "bo nix", …]	Searches that make up the trend (Google's "trend breakdown")
news	[{ title, url, source, publishedAt, imageUrl }]	Articles behind the trend
topNewsTitle, topNewsUrl, topNewsSource, imageUrl		First article, flat — handy for Sheets and Slack
countriesTrending, trendingInCountries	3, ["US","CA","MX"]	Where else the same search trends in this run
isNew, firstSeenAt	true	With "Only new trends"
trendsUrl, exploreUrl		Google's Trending Now page and Explore for the trend

Why use this Trending Now API instead of other scrapers?

Same task for every tool — United States, past 24 hours, all trends — run on Apify on 2026-09-28:

	This Actor	Full-list scraper A	Full-list scraper B	RSS-based scrapers (3 tested)
Trends returned	417	417	417	10 (the newest, ranks 30–165 of Google's list)
Trends with news	415	10	0	10
Growth %, start/end, active	✅	✅	no growth %	❌
Categories, related searches	✅	✅	✅	❌
Many countries in one run	✅ 125 + regions	❌	❌	❌
"Only new" mode for schedules	✅ no repeats	⚠️ half of "new" were repeats*	❌	❌
Time	7 s	46 s	8 s	4–85 s
Price of this run	$0.42 ($0.33 on paid plans)	$0.63	$0.44 ($0.33 on paid plans)	$0.002–0.035 for 10 trends

* Google regroups searches between fetches: a search listed inside one trend ("rams schedule" in "rams vs broncos") can appear as a trend of its own an hour later. Monitoring that only compares titles sends it to you again. In our test (United Kingdom, two runs one hour apart) both tools found the same 7 trends that had just started; scraper A also re-sent 9 searches it had already delivered inside other trends — 9 of its 18 "new" alerts. This Actor remembers the searches inside every trend it delivered and sent 0 repeats.

How to get Google Trends trending searches

1. Click Try for free (or Start).
2. Pick one or more Countries — or tick All countries — and optionally add States and regions such as US-CA.
3. Choose the Time window (past 4 hours, 24 hours, 48 hours or 7 days, or any 1–191 hours).
4. Optionally filter by Categories, Active trends only, Minimum search volume or words (Only trends mentioning).
5. Click Start and download the trends as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or send them to Google Sheets, Slack, Make, Zapier or n8n.

Get alerts for new trends every hour

1. Set your countries and filters (for example Sports in the US, or trends mentioning your brand).
2. Tick Only new trends and Save as a new task.
3. Add a Schedule (for example every hour) and an Integration (Slack, e-mail, webhook, Google Sheets).
4. Optional: enter a name in Also save to dataset — every run appends its new trends there, so you build your own Trending Now history (Google itself keeps only about 8 days).

Every run delivers only trends that earlier runs of this task haven't delivered — in our test, the second hourly run for the United Kingdom delivered 9 new trends (about $0.01).

Input example

{
    "countries": ["US", "GB", "DE"],
    "regions": ["US-CA"],
    "timeWindow": "24",
    "newsPerTrend": 3,
    "categories": ["sports", "politics"],
    "activeOnly": false,
    "onlyNew": false
}

All fields are on the Input tab with descriptions. Leave Countries empty to get the US.

Output example

{
    "trendId": "US:rams vs broncos:1790541600",
    "trend": "rams vs broncos",
    "geo": "US",
    "geoName": "United States",
    "rank": 1,
    "timeWindowHours": 24,
    "searchVolume": 1000000,
    "searchVolumeLabel": "1M+",
    "growthPercent": 1000,
    "isActive": true,
    "startedAt": "2026-09-27T20:40:00.000Z",
    "endedAt": null,
    "durationMinutes": 1161,
    "categories": ["Sports"],
    "relatedQueries": ["rams vs broncos", "rams", "broncos", "denver broncos", "bo nix", "sean payton"],
    "articleCount": 72,
    "news": [
        {
            "title": "After Broncos' latest comeback, Payton pushes for stronger starts",
            "url": "https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/50050195/after-broncos-latest-comeback-payton-pushes-stronger-starts",
            "source": "ESPN",
            "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T06:22:00.000Z",
            "imageUrl": "https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:…"
        }
    ],
    "topNewsTitle": "After Broncos' latest comeback, Payton pushes for stronger starts",
    "topNewsUrl": "https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/50050195/after-broncos-latest-comeback-payton-pushes-stronger-starts",
    "topNewsSource": "ESPN",
    "countriesTrending": 1,
    "trendingInCountries": ["US"],
    "isNew": null,
    "firstSeenAt": null,
    "trendsUrl": "https://trends.google.com/trending?geo=US&hours=24",
    "exploreUrl": "https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=rams%20vs%20broncos&geo=US&date=now%207-d",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-28T16:01:02.000Z"
}

The Trends view shows the main columns; Spreadsheet has flat columns for CSV/Excel. The run's SUMMARY record lists, per country/region, how many trends Google returned, matched your filters and were delivered.

Which countries, states and regions are covered?

All 125 countries Google Trends publishes Trending Now for, plus 1,013 states and regions in 43 countries (we requested every one of the 3,130 sub-region codes Google Trends knows on 2026-09-28; these are the ones with a list). Use the codes in States and regions:

Country	Regions	Examples
RU	83	RU-AD Adygea, RU-AL Altai Republic, RU-ALT Altai Krai
TR	81	TR-01 Adana, TR-02 Adıyaman Province, TR-03 Afyonkarahisar Province
VN	63	VN-01 Lai Chau, VN-02 Lao Cai, VN-03 Ha Giang
US	51	US-AK Alaska, US-AL Alabama, US-AR Arkansas
JP	47	JP-01 Hokkaido Prefecture, JP-02 Aomori Prefecture, JP-03 Iwate Prefecture
NG	37	NG-AB Abia, NG-AD Adamawa, NG-AK Akwa Ibom
IN	36	IN-AN Andaman and Nicobar Islands, IN-AP Andhra Pradesh, IN-AR Arunachal Pradesh
ID	34	ID-AC Aceh, ID-BA Bali, ID-BB Bangka Belitung Islands
CO	33	CO-AMA Amazonas Department, CO-ANT Antioquia, CO-ARA Arauca
MX	32	MX-AGU Aguascalientes, MX-BCN Baja California, MX-BCS Baja California Sur
BR	27	BR-AC State of Acre, BR-AL State of Alagoas, BR-AM State of Amazonas
EG	27	EG-ALX Alexandria Governorate, EG-ASN Aswan Governorate, EG-AST Assiut Governorate
UA	27	UA-05 Vinnyts'ka oblast, UA-07 Volyns'ka oblast, UA-09 Luhans'ka oblast
CH	26	CH-AG Aargau, CH-AI Appenzell Innerrhoden, CH-AR Appenzell Outer Rhodes
PE	25	PE-AMA Amazonas, PE-ANC Ancash, PE-APU Apurimac
AR	24	AR-A Salta Province, AR-B Buenos Aires Province, AR-C Autonomous City of Buenos Aires
EC	24	EC-A Azuay, EC-B Bolívar Province, EC-C Carchi Province
FR	22	FR-A Alsace, FR-B Aquitaine, FR-C Auvergne
SE	21	SE-AB Stockholm County, SE-AC Västerbotten County, SE-BD Norrbotten County
IT	20	IT-21 Piedmont, IT-23 Aosta, IT-25 Lombardy
PT	20	PT-01 Aveiro District, PT-02 Beja District, PT-03 Braga
ES	19	ES-AN Andalusia, ES-AR Aragon, ES-AS Asturias
UY	19	UY-AR Artigas Department, UY-CA Canelones Department, UY-CL Cerro Largo Department
PH	17	PH-00 Metro Manila, PH-01 Ilocos Region, PH-02 Cagayan Valley
DE	16	DE-BB Brandenburg, DE-BE Berlin, DE-BW Baden-Württemberg
KR	16	KR-11 Seoul, KR-26 Busan, KR-27 Daegu
MY	16	MY-01 Johor, MY-02 Kedah, MY-03 Kelantan
NZ	16	NZ-AUK Auckland, NZ-BOP Bay Of Plenty, NZ-CAN Canterbury
PL	16	PL-DS Lower Silesian Voivodeship, PL-KP Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, PL-LB Lubusz Voivodeship
CL	15	CL-AI XI Región, CL-AN Antofagasta Region, CL-AP Arica y Parinacota Region
CA	13	CA-AB Alberta, CA-BC British Columbia, CA-MB Manitoba
SA	13	SA-01 Riyadh Province, SA-02 Makkah Province, SA-03 Al Madinah Province
NL	12	NL-DR Drenthe, NL-FL Flevoland, NL-FR Friesland
AT	9	AT-1 Burgenland, AT-2 Carinthia, AT-3 Lower Austria
ZA	9	ZA-EC Eastern Cape, ZA-FS Free State, ZA-GT Gauteng
AU	8	AU-ACT Australian Capital Territory, AU-NSW New South Wales, AU-NT Northern Territory
PK	8	PK-BA Balochistan, PK-GB Gilgit-Baltistan, PK-IS Islamabad Capital Territory
AE	7	AE-AJ Ajman, AE-AZ Abu Dhabi, AE-DU Dubai
IL	6	IL-D South District, IL-HA Haifa District, IL-JM Jerusalem District
TW	6	TW-KHH Kaohsiung City, TW-TAO Taoyuan City, TW-TNN Tainan City
DK	5	DK-81 North Denmark Region, DK-82 Central Denmark Region, DK-83 Region Syddanmark
GB	4	GB-ENG England, GB-NIR Northern Ireland, GB-SCT Scotland
BE	3	BE-BRU Brussels, BE-VLG Flanders, BE-WAL Walloon Region

Region codes are Google's: mostly ISO 3166-2 (US-TX, DE-BE), but some countries use older codes (France: letters, FR-J = Île-de-France). A code without a list is reported in the run summary and costs nothing.

How much does the Google Trends Trending Now API cost?

You pay per trend delivered (one dataset row). Failed requests, regions without a list and trends your filters skip are free.

Apify plan	Price per 1,000 trends
Free	$1.00
Starter	$0.80
Scale	$0.60
Business	$0.40

Examples (Free plan):

• US, past 24 hours, all trends (~420): about $0.42.
• US, top 50 trends: $0.05.
• All 125 countries, past 24 hours (~5,600): about $5.60.
• Hourly US alerts with "Only new trends": you pay only for trends that are new since the last run.

Set Max trends per country/region or the run's maximum cost to cap spending. If the limit can't cover every trend, you get the top trends of every region (rank by rank across all regions) instead of complete lists for the first few — and the run tells you how many it left out. The biggest possible run — all 125 countries, past 7 days — is about 29,000 trends (~$29 on the Free plan); raise Maximum cost per run in the run options for it.

Use it as an API (Python, JavaScript, cURL)

Every run is available through the Apify API. Python:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("insanedev/google-trends-trending-now").call(run_input={"countries": ["US", "GB"], "timeWindow": "4"})
for trend in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(trend["geo"], trend["trend"], trend["searchVolumeLabel"], trend["topNewsTitle"])

JavaScript:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('insanedev/google-trends-trending-now').call({ countries: ['US'], categories: ['technology'] });
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

cURL (runs the Actor and returns the trends in one call):

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/insanedev~google-trends-trending-now/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"countries":["US"],"maxTrendsPerRegion":20}'

AI agents can call it through the Apify MCP server.

Tips

• Need history for a trend? Paste it into our Google Trends API & Scraper for interest over time (up to 20 years, daily data), regions, cities and related queries.
• Past 4 hours + Only new trends on an hourly schedule is the cheapest way to catch trends early.
• Watch a brand or topic: put words into Only trends mentioning — it also checks each trend's related searches, with accents and case ignored.
• Many countries: trends that appear in several countries have countriesTrending > 1 — sort by it to find global stories.
• No news needed? Set News articles per trend to 0 for the fastest runs (the price is the same).

FAQ

Why do a few trends have no news? Google stops returning articles for some trends after they end — about 2% of all trends in our tests, mostly in Taiwan and Japan. articleCount still shows how many articles Google had linked; asking again doesn't bring them back.

Where does the data come from? From Google Trends' public Trending Now page — the same list, numbers and news you see at trends.google.com/trending. No Google account is used.

What happened to Google Trends Daily Search Trends and Realtime Search Trends? Google replaced both with Trending Now, and the old pages and endpoints (/trends/trendingsearches/daily, /trends/hottrends) now redirect to trends.google.com/trending. This Actor returns that list, so you can use it as a Google Trends realtime and daily trends API: run it every hour with Past 4 hours and Only new trends for a real-time feed, or once a day with Past 24 hours for a daily list.

How far back can I go? Google keeps about 8 days (191 hours) of Trending Now. To keep more, schedule the Actor with Only new trends and Also save to dataset: the named dataset keeps growing run after run. For the long-term interest of a specific search, use Google Trends API & Scraper.

Why is the search volume a range like "200K+"? Google publishes volume in buckets (100+, 200+, 500+, 1K+, … 1M+). searchVolume is the bucket's lower bound as a number.

Why do some regions return nothing? Google publishes Trending Now for 125 countries and many sub-regions, but not for every code (for example FR-IDF). Such regions are listed in the run summary and cost nothing.

Is it legal to scrape Google Trends? The Actor reads public, aggregated data that Google shows to every visitor, without logging in. You are responsible for how you use the data; check the laws and terms that apply to you.

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