Google Trends Trending Now - Daily Trending Searches

Get the Trending Now list from Google Trends for any country or US state: what people are searching for right now, with the approximate search volume, the time Google lists for each trend, an image and the news articles Google links to it. One clean row per trending search. Built for newsrooms, content and SEO teams, social media managers, traders and AI agents that want to know what is trending before everyone else.

• Many countries in one run. Give US, GB, DE, JP, IN, BR... or a region such as US-CA. Each country is one request.
• Watch mode for alerts. With onlyNew, scheduled runs return only trending searches this watch has not returned before for that country. Run it every 15 minutes or every hour and send new rows to Slack, email or a webhook with an Apify integration.
• Search volume as a number. Google shows "2000+"; you also get approxTrafficMin: 2000, so you can sort, filter and set alerts. minSearchVolume keeps only the bigger trends.
• Linked news included. Each row carries the news items Google attaches to the trend (title, URL, source, image).
• Nothing is guessed. A value Google does not give is null, never 0 or "". A country code Google does not accept, an empty list or a run that hit its charge limit comes back as a free row that says why.
• No login, no browser. Reads Google Trends' public Trending Now RSS feed.

Unofficial. Not affiliated with Google.

What you get

One row per trending search:

Field	Example	Meaning
geo	US	The country or region code you asked for
countryName	United States	English name of the country part of the code
listPosition	1	Position in Google's list. The feed lists the most recently started trends first; it is not a volume ranking
searchTerm	netflix movies	The trending search
approxTraffic	10000+	Approximate search volume exactly as Google shows it
approxTrafficMin	10000	The same as a number (the lower bound)
publishedAt	2026-10-03T09:50:00.000Z	The time Google gives for this trend in the feed (pubDate), in UTC
picture, pictureSource	image URL, Live 5 News	The image Google shows for the trend and where it is from
newsCount, news	3, [{title, url, source, picture, snippet}]	News articles Google links to the trend
exploreUrl	Google Trends link	Opens this term in Google Trends for the past day in that country
trendingPageUrl	Google Trends link	The Trending Now page for that country
changeType	first-check / new	Watch mode only; null otherwise
checkedAt	ISO time	When this run read the list

Example row (US, 2026-10-03):

{
  "status": "ok",
  "geo": "US",
  "countryName": "United States",
  "listPosition": 4,
  "searchTerm": "netflix movies",
  "approxTraffic": "10000+",
  "approxTrafficMin": 10000,
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-03T09:30:00.000Z",
  "newsCount": 3,
  "news": [{ "title": "...", "url": "https://...", "source": "...", "picture": "https://...", "snippet": null }]
}

Google's feed has about 10 trending searches per country at a time.

Free rows (not charged)

status	When
unknown-country	Google does not accept the code (for example UK; Google uses GB)
bad-input	The value is not a country code, or watch mode was started without a country
no-trends	Google answered with an empty list for that country
no-new-trends	Watch mode: nothing in the list that this watch has not returned before
below-minimum	Every search in the list is below your minSearchVolume
blocked, unreadable	Google refused or sent something that is not the feed, after retries from other IP addresses
timed-out	The run was about to reach its timeout, so that country was not read
budget-reached	The run reached its maximum total charge; the row lists what was not returned

If no list could be read for any country (codes not accepted, input not usable, blocked, unreadable or timed out), the run is not charged and ends with an error so your schedule notices.

Input

Field	Default	Notes
countries	empty = US (watch mode needs at least one)	Country codes such as US, GB, JP, or regions such as US-CA, up to 150 per run. Lower case is accepted. Duplicates are read once
minSearchVolume	empty	Keep only searches with approxTrafficMin at least this number
onlyNew	off	Watch mode (below)
watchName	empty	Separate memory for separate schedules
resetMonitoringState	off	Forget the watch memory at the start of this run

Watch mode

1. Run once with onlyNew: true and your countries: the whole list of each country comes back with changeType: "first-check" (if the run hits its maximum total charge first, the rest of that first list comes back as first-check in the next run).
2. Create a Schedule with the same input (for example every 30 minutes).
3. Later runs return only searches this watch has not returned before for that country (changeType: "new"). A country with nothing new is one free no-new-trends row.

A search that leaves the list and is not seen for 7 days is forgotten, so it comes back as new if it trends again. Searches below minSearchVolume are not remembered, so a search that grows past your minimum is returned when it does. Searches not returned because the run hit its maximum total charge are not remembered either, so the next run returns them.

Do not run two schedules with the same watchName at the same time: Apify's key-value store has no atomic update, so overlapping runs can return the same search twice.

Pricing

Pay per event:

• Run start - charged once per run, only when the Trending Now list of at least one country was read (with at least one search in it). This includes watch-mode runs that find nothing new and runs where minSearchVolume leaves nothing. Not charged when every country is unknown-country, bad-input, no-trends, blocked, unreadable or timed-out, or when the run's maximum total charge has no room for the start fee plus one result row (then nothing is requested at all).
• Trending search - one per ok row. Free rows are never charged.

The exact prices are shown on the Pricing tab.

Measured in production (2026-10-03, build 0.1, 256 MB)

Input	Result	Run time
US, JP, GB, DE, IN, BR, US-CA, ZZ, uk	70 rows (10 per country), 2 free unknown-country rows, 9 requests	5.9 s
US, JP, watch mode, first run	20 first-check rows	4.0 s
Same, run again a few seconds later	0 rows, 2 free no-new-trends rows	2.6 s
JP, minSearchVolume: 10000	4 rows	1.6 s

All requests went out directly from Apify; no retry was needed.

Support

Need another field or a country that does not work? Open an issue on the Issues tab with the input you used.