# Google Trends Scraper - Interest, Regions & Rising Queries (`orbifetch/google-trends-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Google Trends reliably: interest over time, interest by region, related & rising queries and Trending Now, plus average, peak and trend direction per keyword. Bulk keywords, any country, CSV/Excel/API.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/orbifetch/google-trends-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Orbifetch](https://apify.com/orbifetch) (community)
- **Categories:** SEO tools, E-commerce
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 0.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

Pay per event

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

### What does Google Trends Scraper do?

**Google Trends Scraper** pulls data from [Google Trends](https://trends.google.com) for any list of keywords, in any country, time range, category or search type (web, YouTube, news, images, shopping). **Each keyword comes back as one complete row:**

- 📈 **Interest over time**: the full 0–100 timeline
- 🧮 **Ready-made metrics**: average interest, peak value and peak date, latest value, % change and a **rising / stable / falling** label
- 🗺️ **Interest by region**: countries, states/provinces, cities or US metros (DMA)
- 🔎 **Related queries**: top searches and **rising / breakout** searches
- 🔥 **Trending Now**: today's trending searches per country, with traffic estimates and news links

It's built for **reliability**. Google Trends rate-limits scrapers hard, so the Actor warms up sessions, rotates residential IPs and retries automatically. Your runs finish instead of failing halfway.

### Why use it?

- **SEO & content marketing**: find rising keywords and breakout queries before competitors do, and prioritize content by seasonality.
- **E-commerce & product research**: check whether a product or niche is growing, peaking or dying, and where demand is strongest.
- **Market & investment research**: track brand, product and category interest over years across countries.
- **Data science & AI agents**: get clean JSON with no parsing of Google's odd widget formats. It plugs straight into pipelines, Make, Zapier, n8n or an LLM agent via the Apify API or MCP.
- **News & social media**: monitor what's trending today in any country.

### How much does it cost?

You pay only for results. Keywords that fail are **free**.

| Result | Price |
|---|---|
| Keyword analyzed (timeline + metrics + regions + related queries, all included) | **$0.005** |
| Trending Now search | **$0.0005** |

**1,000 keywords cost $5**, all data included. Other Trends scrapers charge per timeline point or per widget.

### How to use it

1. Click **Try for free**.
2. Enter your **search terms**, one per line.
3. Pick a **time range**, **location** (e.g. `US`, `GB`, `US-CA`, or empty for worldwide) and optionally a **category** or **search type**.
4. Turn on **Compare terms** if you want keywords on a shared 0–100 scale, as when you type them together into Google Trends.
5. Optionally add countries under **Trending now**.
6. Click **Start** and export as **Excel, CSV, JSON or HTML**, or fetch the data through the API.

### Input example

```json
{
    "searchTerms": ["chatgpt", "claude ai"],
    "timeRange": "today 3-m",
    "geo": "US",
    "regionResolution": "REGION",
    "includeRelatedQueries": true,
    "trendingNowCountries": ["US", "GB"]
}
```

### Output example

```json
{
    "type": "keyword",
    "keyword": "chatgpt",
    "geo": "US",
    "timeRange": "today 3-m",
    "averageInterest": 63.5,
    "peakInterest": 100,
    "peakDate": "2026-09-03T00:00:00.000Z",
    "latestInterest": 71,
    "trendChangePercent": 14.3,
    "trendDirection": "rising",
    "topRegion": "California",
    "topRelatedQuery": "chatgpt ai",
    "topRisingQuery": "chatgpt astra",
    "interestOverTime": [
        { "date": "2026-06-27T00:00:00.000Z", "label": "Jun 27, 2026", "value": 58, "isPartial": false }
    ],
    "interestByRegion": [
        { "geoCode": "US-CA", "geoName": "California", "value": 100 }
    ],
    "relatedQueries": {
        "top": [{ "query": "chatgpt ai", "value": 100, "formattedValue": "100", "isBreakout": false }],
        "rising": [{ "query": "chatgpt astra", "value": 1500, "formattedValue": "+1,500%", "isBreakout": false }]
    },
    "trendsUrl": "https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=chatgpt&date=today+3-m&geo=US"
}
```

The **Keywords** table view shows one row per keyword with the summary metrics. The full JSON holds the complete timeline, regions and query lists.

### FAQ

**What do the numbers mean?** Google Trends values are relative, not absolute search volumes. 100 is the peak popularity of a term within the chosen time and location. With **Compare terms**, all keywords in a group share one scale.

**How is `trendDirection` calculated?** It compares the average interest in the last quarter of the period with the first quarter. A change above +10% is `rising`, below −10% is `falling`, and anything in between is `stable`.

**Why residential proxies?** Google blocks data-center IPs from Trends within a few requests. Residential proxies are the default because they are what makes runs reliable. The traffic per keyword is tiny, so the cost is already included in the price.

**Can I schedule it?** Yes. Use Apify **Schedules** to track keywords daily or weekly, and **integrations** to push results to Google Sheets, Slack, a webhook or your database.

**Something not working?** Open an issue on the **Issues** tab. We usually fix problems within days.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchTerms` (type: `array`):

Keywords to look up in Google Trends. Each keyword returns one row with its interest over time, regions and related queries.

## `compareTerms` (type: `boolean`):

Compare keywords in groups of up to 5 on the same 0-100 scale, like typing them into Google Trends together. When off, each keyword is scaled independently.

## `timeRange` (type: `string`):

Period to analyze.

## `customTimeRange` (type: `string`):

Optional. Overrides the time range, e.g. "2024-01-01 2024-06-30".

## `geo` (type: `string`):

Country or region code, e.g. US, GB, DE, TR, US-CA. Leave empty for worldwide.

## `category` (type: `integer`):

Google Trends category ID (0 = all categories). Examples: 3 = Arts & Entertainment, 7 = Finance, 12 = Business & Industrial, 45 = Health, 71 = Food & Drink, 5 = Computers & Electronics.

## `property` (type: `string`):

Which Google search to analyze.

## `includeInterestOverTime` (type: `boolean`):

Timeline of search interest (0-100) plus average, peak and trend direction.

## `includeInterestByRegion` (type: `boolean`):

Where the keyword is most popular.

## `regionResolution` (type: `string`):

Granularity of interest by region. Inside a country, 'Country' automatically becomes 'Subregion'. City and Metro (DMA) are available for large countries such as the US.

## `includeLowVolumeRegions` (type: `boolean`):

Also return regions with low search volume.

## `includeRelatedQueries` (type: `boolean`):

Top related searches and rising (breakout) searches for each keyword.

## `trendingNowCountries` (type: `array`):

Optional. Country codes (e.g. US, GB, IN) to fetch today's Trending Now searches with traffic estimates and news links.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Keywords processed in parallel. Higher values may trigger Google rate limits; the Actor retries automatically.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Google Trends blocks data-center IPs quickly. Residential proxies (default) give the most reliable results.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchTerms": [
    "chatgpt",
    "claude ai"
  ],
  "compareTerms": false,
  "timeRange": "today 12-m",
  "geo": "",
  "category": 0,
  "property": "",
  "includeInterestOverTime": true,
  "includeInterestByRegion": true,
  "regionResolution": "COUNTRY",
  "includeLowVolumeRegions": false,
  "includeRelatedQueries": true,
  "maxConcurrency": 3,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `keywords` (type: `string`):

One row per keyword with summary metrics, timeline, regions and related queries.

## `trending` (type: `string`):

Trending searches per country.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "searchTerms": [
        "chatgpt",
        "claude ai"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("orbifetch/google-trends-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "searchTerms": [
        "chatgpt",
        "claude ai",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("orbifetch/google-trends-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "searchTerms": [
    "chatgpt",
    "claude ai"
  ]
}' |
apify call orbifetch/google-trends-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,orbifetch/google-trends-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/pIrIdMuFeJx4hlrB0/builds/GlfLSLjC0zkjbshky/openapi.json