Google Trends "Trending Now" Scraper — every trend, not just the top 10

Most trending-search scrapers read Google's RSS feed, which only lists 10 trends. This actor reads the full Trending now list on Google Trends: often 300+ trends a day per country, and thousands over 7 days.

Each trend comes with its search volume, growth %, start time, whether it is still active, its categories, and the related queries Google groups under it.

What you get

Field	Example
trend	jets vs canadiens
geo	CA
rank	2 (within the geo, after your sort and filters)
searchVolume / searchVolumeLabel	50000 / 50K+
growthPercent	1000 (Google caps the display at 1000%)
isActive, startedAt, endedAt	true, 2026-11-04T01:30:00.000Z, null
categories	["Sports"]
relatedQueries	["canadiens", "jets game", "habs score"]
exploreUrl	Link to the term on Google Trends

How to use it

1. Add one or more countries or regions: US, GB, CA, FR, DE, IN, BR, JP… or regions like US-CA or CA-QC.
2. Pick a time window: past 4 hours, 24 hours, 48 hours or 7 days.
3. Optionally keep only some categories, only active trends, or trends above a minimum search volume.
4. Run it once, or schedule it hourly or daily to build your own trend history.

Example input

{
  "geos": ["US", "GB", "CA"],
  "timeWindow": "past-24-hours",
  "categories": ["18", "3"],
  "minSearchVolume": 2000,
  "maxTrendsPerGeo": 50
}

Category IDs

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

Pricing

You pay per trend delivered. Proxies are included. Use Max trends per geo and the filters to control cost. A 7-day window for the US can return 3,000+ trends.

• Geos that fail after all retries are free and appear with status: "error".
• Set a maximum cost per run; the actor stops cleanly at that limit and keeps what it collected.

Use cases

• Newsrooms and content teams: spot rising stories in any country within hours.
• Marketers and brands: react to moments (sports, shows, launches) while they are trending.
• E-commerce: catch product and shopping trends early (category 16).
• Researchers and data teams: schedule hourly runs to build a trend archive.
• AI agents: give an assistant live "what's trending" context through the Apify MCP server.

Reliability

Requests retry with fresh IPs and fall back to residential proxies when Google rate-limits. The RUN_STATS record shows requests and retries for every run. We run test scrapes every day. Questions or problems: use the Issues tab; we reply within one business day.

Legal

This actor collects only public, aggregated trend data and no personal data. Google Trends is a trademark of Google LLC; this actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google.