Google Trends API for AI Agents: Trend Summary & Rising Queries

What does this Google Trends API do?

This Google Trends API for AI agents gets Google Trends data for your keywords (interest over time, top related queries and rising related queries) plus a plain-English trend summary: rising, falling, flat or mixed. Each keyword comes back as one JSON record that AI agents, LLM pipelines and dashboards can use directly, with no chart parsing.

Use it as a Google Trends API alternative: Google has no simple public API for Trends, and this Actor gives you one through the Apify API, MCP, schedules and integrations. You pay only for successful keyword reports.

Why use this Google Trends scraper?

• 📈 Ready-made verdict. direction and a one-line summary tell you whether interest is rising, falling, flat or mixed (a spike that has since faded).
• 🔢 The numbers behind it. changePct, latestInterest, avgInterest and the full interestOverTime series on Google's 0–100 scale.
• 🔗 Related queries. Up to 10 top and 10 rising related searches per keyword.
• 🌍 Any country, five time windows. Past 7 days to past 5 years.
• 💸 Failures are free. Keywords that fail return an error field and are not charged.

Use cases

• AI agents deciding which topics, products or content are gaining momentum
• SEO keyword research and content planning
• Seasonal demand checks and product research
• Market research and trend reports

How to get Google Trends data

1. Click Try for free or Start to open the Actor in Apify Console.
2. Enter your keywords (1–10 per run recommended).
3. Set geo (a Google Trends geo code like US, or leave empty for worldwide) and a time range.
4. Click Start.
5. Read the verdicts in the dataset, export them as JSON, CSV or Excel, or schedule a weekly run.

Input

Field	What it does
keywords	Search terms to analyze (1–10 recommended).
geo	Google Trends geo code, for example US. Empty means worldwide.
timeRange	now 7-d, today 1-m, today 3-m (default), today 12-m or today 5-y.
includeRelated	Also return top and rising related queries. Default true.

Example input from a real run:

{
  "keywords": [
    "artificial intelligence",
    "chatgpt"
  ],
  "geo": "US"
}

Output example

Each keyword returns keyword, geo, timeRange, summary, direction, changePct, latestInterest, avgInterest, interestOverTime, relatedTop, relatedRising and fetchedAt.

Real output from a cloud run on 2026-10-16 (first item; long arrays shortened). Full example dataset: https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/YmY48HeQdhcZrcPUk/items?clean=1&format=json

{
  "keyword": "artificial intelligence",
  "geo": "US",
  "timeRange": "today 3-m",
  "summary": "Interest is falling (~-39% vs earlier in the window). Latest=13, avg=24.",
  "direction": "falling",
  "changePct": -38.8,
  "latestInterest": 13,
  "avgInterest": 24.5,
  "interestOverTime": [
    {
      "time": "Jul 16, 2026",
      "value": 29
    },
    {
      "time": "Jul 17, 2026",
      "value": 34
    },
    {
      "time": "Jul 18, 2026",
      "value": 35
    },
    "…"
  ],
  "relatedRising": [
    {
      "query": "chip roy artificial intelligence warning",
      "value": 51800
    },
    {
      "query": "geoffrey hinton artificial intelligence warning",
      "value": 26850
    },
    {
      "query": "jim cramer artificial intelligence picks",
      "value": 21750
    },
    "…"
  ],
  "relatedTop": [
    {
      "query": "ai artificial intelligence",
      "value": 100
    },
    {
      "query": "artificial intelligence news",
      "value": 59
    },
    {
      "query": "what is artificial intelligence",
      "value": 49
    },
    "…"
  ],
  "fetchedAt": "2026-10-16T00:21:35.110Z"
}

How much does Google Trends data cost?

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing: $0.008 per successful keyword report (the keyword-summary event), with no start fee. Ten keywords cost $0.08. Rows that fail include an error field and are not charged. If every keyword fails, the run is marked as failed.

The Apify Free plan includes monthly platform usage credits with no credit card required. Check the Pricing tab for the current rate.

Use the Google Trends API with AI agents

This Actor is available as a tool through the Apify MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com), so an agent can ask "is this topic rising?" and get a direct answer with evidence. You can also call it from the Apify API, the JavaScript or Python client, n8n, Make or Zapier.

FAQ

Are these absolute search volumes?

No. Values are Google's relative 0–100 interest scale for the selected place and time range, not absolute search counts.

How is the direction calculated?

The Actor compares the average of the last quarter of the time window with the average of the first quarter and reports the percentage change as changePct. A change of +15% or more is rising, -15% or less is falling, and anything in between is flat. If the latest value contradicts that direction (for example a spike that has since faded), the verdict is mixed.

Why did a keyword fail?

Google Trends sometimes rate-limits or returns no data for very rare terms. The Actor uses Apify residential proxies to reach Google Trends reliably; failed keywords are returned with an error field and are free.

Is it legal to scrape Google Trends?

The Actor reads publicly available Google Trends data. Make sure your use complies with Google's terms and the laws that apply to you.

Something broke or a field is missing?

Open an issue on the Issues tab with the keywords and settings you used.

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Need a custom field, source or integration? Open an issue on the Issues tab.