Google Trends Trending Searches Scraper

Pull the trending searches Google is showing right now, for any country you pick. The actor reads Google's public trending RSS feed, so there is no login, no API key, and no captcha. Each run gives you a clean table: the trending search term, roughly how much traffic it is getting, when it started trending, and the news stories Google ties to it.

What you get

One row per trending search. Fields:

• query: the trending search term
• rank: its position in the country feed, 1 is the hottest
• geo and geoName: the country code and its name
• approxTraffic: Google's traffic label, for example 2,000+
• approxTrafficNumber: that label parsed to an integer you can sort and filter on
• pubDate and pubDateRaw: when the term started trending, ISO 8601 and the original string
• pictureUrl and pictureSource: the image Google shows for the trend and who it came from
• exploreUrl: a ready link to open the term in Google Trends Explore
• newsCount, firstNewsTitle, firstNewsUrl, firstNewsSource: a quick handle on the top related story
• relatedNews: the full list of related stories, each with title, url, source, and image
• scrapedAt: when the row was collected

Input

• geos: list of two-letter country codes, for example ["US", "GB", "IN"]. One feed is fetched per country.
• hl: interface language such as en, fr, de, ja. Default en.
• maxItemsPerGeo: cap per country. 0 keeps everything Google returns, usually 10 to 20.
• includeRelatedNews: set false to drop the relatedNews array and keep rows lean.
• proxyConfiguration: Apify Proxy settings. The datacenter default is enough for this feed.

Example

{
  "geos": ["US", "GB", "IN"],
  "hl": "en",
  "maxItemsPerGeo": 0,
  "includeRelatedNews": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}

How scale works

Google's trending feed returns the current top terms for one country per request, roughly 10 to 20. To cover more ground, add more countries. The actor fetches each country in turn and writes every trending search to the dataset.

Good uses

• Track breaking topics across markets for a newsroom or social team
• Feed a content calendar with what people are searching for today
• Watch a brand or event surface in the trending list
• Build a daily trending-topics digest by scheduling the actor

Notes

Trending searches are a live snapshot, so results change through the day. Run the actor on a schedule if you want history. Traffic labels come from Google as rounded bands, not exact counts. Country codes follow ISO 3166-1 alpha-2.