Google Trends Trending Now Scraper: Live Trending Searches by Country

Get the searches that are trending on Google right now in one or more countries, the same list shown on the Google Trends "Trending Now" page. For each trend you get the search term, Google's search volume estimate, the percentage increase, when it started (and ended), Google's categories, the related queries grouped under it and the news articles behind it. $0.50 per 1,000 trends.

What can this trending searches scraper do?

• Any country: US, GB, DE, IN, BR, JP and more, several per run.
• Any window: past 4 hours, 24 hours, 48 hours or 7 days.
• Filter by Google's categories (Sports, Entertainment, Politics, Business and Finance, Technology...), by active trends only, or by a minimum search volume.
• See why it is trending: up to 10 news articles per trend with title, source, URL, image and time.
• Keep a history: schedule it hourly or daily for a time series of what people search.

What data do you get?

Field	Description
country, rank, query	Trend and its position in Google's list
searchVolume, approxTraffic	Volume estimate as a number and as Google's text (e.g. 200,000+)
increasePercent	Growth Google reports
startedAt, endedAt, isActive	Timing (UTC)
categories, relatedQueries	Google's categories and grouped queries
image, imageSource	Trend image
newsCount, news	Articles with title, source, url, image, publishedAt
timeWindowHours, trendsUrl, dataSource, scrapedAt	Run details and a Google Trends explore link

Who uses it?

• Content and social media teams looking for timely topics to write or post about.
• SEO and newsroom staff watching what people search across several markets.
• Marketers and analysts keeping a daily or hourly history of trending searches.
• Developers who need trending-search data as JSON for apps, dashboards or alerts.

How to use it

1. Click Try for free (or Start).
2. Enter Countries and pick a Time window.
3. Optionally choose Categories and a Minimum search volume.
4. Run it (about 40 seconds per country with news) and export to Excel, CSV or JSON.
5. Schedule it hourly or every morning and send results to Google Sheets or Slack.

Input example

{
  "countries": [
    "US",
    "GB"
  ],
  "hours": "24",
  "categories": [
    "Technology",
    "Business and Finance"
  ],
  "activeOnly": true,
  "maxTrendsPerCountry": 50,
  "includeNews": true,
  "maxNewsPerTrend": 3
}

Output example

{
  "country": "US",
  "rank": 1,
  "query": "butter",
  "searchVolume": 200000,
  "approxTraffic": "200,000+",
  "increasePercent": 1000,
  "startedAt": "2026-10-27T19:30:00Z",
  "endedAt": null,
  "isActive": true,
  "categories": [
    "Food and Drink",
    "Business and Finance"
  ],
  "relatedQueries": [
    "butter",
    "butter recalled",
    "miyoko plant based butter recall"
  ],
  "image": "https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSC4odmSBt3uERPcMheRV0-x7_QIbkV0Z3m_RgngZWvXSFeOLudZlJGWVvjgVM",
  "imageSource": "ABC7 Los Angeles",
  "newsCount": 3,
  "news": [
    {
      "title": "Butter recalled: Miyoko's plant-based product recalled after E. coli, mold concerns",
      "source": "ABC7 Los Angeles",
      "url": "https://abc7.com/post/miyokos-plant-based-butter-recalled-coli-mold-concerns/19989083/",
      "image": "https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSC4odmSBt3uERPcMheRV0-x7_QIbkV0Z3m_RgngZWvXSFeOLudZlJGWVvjgVM",
      "publishedAt": "2026-10-28T10:28:03Z"
    },
    {
      "title": "Plant-based butter recalled over yeast, mold, E. coli concerns",
      "source": "USA Today",
      "url": "https://www.usatoday.com/story/grocery/2026/10/28/miyokos-creamery-plant-based-butter-recalled-due-to-food-safety-concerns-ecoli-yeast-mold/92479553007/",
      "image": "https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTvmLPkb6YazSO_RgqB0cbhVnjiApnwLLl1DIps45-rTnkWC4e3YBd46yG7DI8",
      "publishedAt": "2026-10-28T18:50:13Z"
    },
    {
      "title": "Butter recalled for yeast, mold and E. coli: FDA",
      "source": "PIX11",
      "url": "https://pix11.com/news/local-news/butter-recalled-for-yeast-mold-and-e-coli-fda/",
      "image": "https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQBOJ4D64P0nnxmAtBE7dUQH0JIquw7oS2IpLOMDWmvIxicAdD3TPEcvN2crjM",
      "publishedAt": "2026-10-26T14:03:45Z"
    }
  ],
  "timeWindowHours": 24,
  "trendsUrl": "https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=butter&geo=US&date=now%207-d",
  "dataSource": "trendingNow",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-28T19:27:08Z"
}

How much does it cost?

$0.50 per 1,000 trends ($0.0005 each), plus a $0.00005 start fee per run.

You get	You pay
Top 50 US trends	$0.025
Top 50 trends in 5 countries every hour for a month (180,000)	about $90
Top 50 trends in 5 countries every morning for a month (7,500)	about $3.75

You are charged only for trends returned; invalid country codes are skipped.

Volume discounts on higher Apify plans. The price above is for the Apify Free plan. On paid plans it drops automatically: $0.40 per 1,000 on Bronze, $0.30 on Silver and $0.20 on Gold and above.

Use it via API, Make, Zapier, n8n or an AI agent

Apify API. Start a run and get the results back in one HTTP request (replace YOUR_API_TOKEN with the token from Apify Console > Settings > Integrations):

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/plotpointtech~google-trends-trending-now/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"countries": ["US", "GB"], "hours": "24", "categories": ["Technology", "Business and Finance"], "activeOnly": true, "maxTrendsPerCountry": 50, "includeNews": true, "maxNewsPerTrend": 3}'

For longer jobs, start the run asynchronously and read the dataset when it finishes. Official apify-client libraries exist for Python and JavaScript; the API tab on this page has ready-made code.

No-code automation. Connect the tool to Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets, Slack, Airtable or any webhook with Apify integrations, and use Schedules in Apify Console to run it hourly, daily or weekly.

AI agents (MCP). Give Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code or any MCP-compatible agent direct access to this tool through the hosted Apify MCP server. Add this server URL to your client:

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=plotpointtech/google-trends-trending-now

The agent can then call the tool with the same input fields shown above and read the results.

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Google trending searches? The tool reads Google Trends' public Trending RSS feed and the public data behind the Trending Now page, without logging in, and paces its requests. Trends are aggregated and anonymous. Check that your use fits Google's terms.

How is this different from the Google Trends Scraper? This tool returns what is trending right now. Our Google Trends Scraper returns interest over time, by region and related queries for terms you choose.

Are search volumes exact? No. They are Google's rounded estimates (for example 20,000+).

What if the Trending Now data is unavailable? The tool falls back to the RSS feed, which has fewer fields (no categories or related queries). dataSource tells you which was used.

Which languages are supported? Set the response language with a code such as en, de, fr, es or ja.

Related tools from Plot Point Technologies

• Google Trends Scraper - Interest, Regions & Queries, $1/1K: interest over time, by region and rising queries in bulk.
• News Scraper - Worldwide News Search by Keyword, 65+ Languages: news articles worldwide by keyword, country and language.
• Google News Scraper - Articles with Real Publisher URLs: Google News articles with decoded publisher URLs.

Plot Point Technologies is not affiliated with Google.

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