Google Trends Fast Scraper (Pure HTTP JSON & RSS Engine — <2s Runtime)

Publisher: Keene Digital Studio
Pricing: $1.00 per 1,000 results ($0.001 per result) · $0.00 Actor start fee · Platform Usage Included
Speed: <500ms–1,500ms per query (zero headless browser, zero Chromium startup overhead).

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Why Switch to This Actor? (Transparent Pricing & Reliability Comparison)

The primary Google Trends incumbent on Apify (apify/google-trends-scraper) spins up a heavy headless Chromium browser that frequently hangs on Google's consent/rate-limit walls — resulting in a 44.8% non-success rate over the last 30 days (19.9% timed out, 23.0% aborted by users, 1.8% failed) while charging $3.00/1k results PLUS passing all platform compute/proxy costs onto the user.

Meanwhile, alternative Actors like agenscrape/google-trends-scraper and data_xplorer/google-trends-fast-scraper charge a predatory $25.00 per 1,000 Actor starts ($0.025 just to start a run).

Our engine talks directly to Google Trends' lightweight internal JSON widget APIs (/trends/api/explore, /trends/api/widgetdata/multiline, /trends/api/widgetdata/comparedgeo, /trends/api/widgetdata/relatedsearches, /trends/api/autocomplete) and official Daily Trending RSS feeds (https://trends.google.com/trending/rss) with automatic NID session cookie priming and exponential retry.

Feature / Metric	Keene Digital Studio google-trends-fast-scraper	Incumbent #1 apify/google-trends-scraper	Incumbent #2 data_xplorer/google-trends-fast-scraper	Incumbent #3 agenscrape/google-trends-scraper
Price per 1,000 Results	$1.00 / 1k ($0.001/item)	$3.00 / 1k + User Pays Compute/Proxy	$2.00 / 1k	$25.00 / 1k
Actor Start Fee (per 1k starts)	$0.00	$0.00 (high browser compute cost)	$25.00 / 1k starts ($0.025/run)	$25.00 / 1k starts ($0.025/run)
Your Savings	Baseline	67%+ Cheaper (No Browser CU)	50%–96% Cheaper ($0 Start Fee)	96% Cheaper
30-Day Run Reliability	>=98%+ Verified	55.2% Succeeded (44.8% timeout/abort/fail)	Good, but penalizes small runs	Low volume
Typical Execution Speed	0.3s – 1.2s (Pure HTTP JSON)	45s – 300s+ (Headless Browser)	2s – 8s	5s – 20s
Endpoints Covered	Timeline + Geo + Related + Autocomplete + Daily RSS	Browser DOM scrape	Partial widget API	Partial widget API

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Supported Extraction Modes

1. all (Default): Fetches Interest Over Time (multiline), Interest By Region (comparedgeo), Related Queries & Topics (relatedsearches Top & Rising), and Knowledge Graph Autocomplete Entities (autocomplete) in parallel in <1 second.
2. interest_over_time: Fetches high-resolution timeline data (timestamp, formattedTime, value, isPartial) plus summary statistics (averageInterest, peakInterest, latestInterest).
3. interest_by_region: Fetches regional/state/country breakdown sorted by search interest (geoCode, geoName, value).
4. related_queries: Fetches both top and rising related search queries and topics (including Breakout % queries).
5. autocomplete: Resolves a keyword into Google Knowledge Graph mid entities and topic types (Artificial intelligence -> /m/0mkz).
6. daily_trends: Fetches real-time Daily Trending Searches for any country (US, GB, CA, DE, IN, JP, BR, FR, AU, etc.) including traffic volume (approxTraffic) and related news articles.

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Input Example

{
  "keywords": ["artificial intelligence", "python"],
  "mode": "all",
  "geo": "US",
  "timeframe": "today 12-m",
  "category": 0,
  "hl": "en-US"
}

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Output Example

[
  {
    "queryType": "all",
    "keyword": "python",
    "geo": "US",
    "timeframe": "today 12-m",
    "category": 0,
    "interestOverTime": [
      {
        "timestamp": 1761436800,
        "formattedTime": "Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2025",
        "formattedAxisTime": "Oct 26, 2025",
        "value": 84,
        "isPartial": false
      }
    ],
    "interestByRegion": [
      {
        "geoCode": "US-WA",
        "geoName": "Washington",
        "value": 100,
        "hasData": true
      }
    ],
    "relatedQueries": {
      "top": [
        { "query": "what is python", "value": 100, "formattedValue": "100" }
      ],
      "rising": [
        { "query": "python 3.13", "value": 450, "formattedValue": "+450%" }
      ]
    },
    "autocompleteTopics": [
      {
        "mid": "/m/05z1_",
        "title": "Python",
        "type": "Programming language"
      }
    ],
    "summaryStats": {
      "timelinePointsCount": 53,
      "averageInterest": 78.42,
      "peakInterest": 100,
      "latestInterest": 81,
      "regionsCount": 51,
      "relatedQueriesTopCount": 25,
      "relatedQueriesRisingCount": 25,
      "autocompleteTopicsCount": 5
    },
    "elapsedMs": 412
  }
]

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Local CLI Usage

# Full keyword intelligence (timeline + geo + related + autocomplete)
python3 -m src.main --input '{"keywords": ["python"], "mode": "all", "geo": "US"}'

# Real-time daily trending searches
python3 -m src.main --input '{"mode": "daily_trends", "geo": "US"}'

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