Google Trends Tracker: Rising Searches in 56 Countries

Discover trending Google searches across up to 56 countries in a single run. Go beyond a simple snapshot: detect newly appearing searches, track ranking changes over time, and identify topics trending across multiple countries.

This Actor is designed for SEO research, content planning, news monitoring, international market research, and automated trend detection.

Unofficial: This Actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google LLC. Google and Google Trends are trademarks of Google LLC. This Actor reads the publicly available Trending Now RSS feed published by Google.

Built on Google's public Trending Now RSS feed, this Actor does not require a headless browser, browser sessions, or proxies. It retrieves data directly from the feed and processes multiple countries in parallel.

Why use this Actor?

Detect emerging searches, not just current trends

A standard feed gives you a snapshot of what is trending now. This Actor maintains historical data between runs and adds fields that help you understand how trends evolve:

• isNew: whether a search term has newly appeared compared with the previous recorded run.
• rankChange: the change in ranking position.
• firstSeenAt: when the term was first observed in the Actor's stored history.
• hoursTrending: how long the term has been observed in successive runs.

These fields help you distinguish newly appearing searches from trends that have remained visible over several runs.

Historical detection becomes useful after the Actor has collected data across successive executions.

Compare trends across countries

Fetch several countries in the same run and discover which exact search terms appear in multiple markets.

Each output row includes:

• alsoTrendingIn: other countries where the same term is trending in that run.
• countryCount: the number of requested countries in which that term appears.

This helps identify international topics, compare local interests, and spot searches that are gaining attention across borders.

Retrieve up to 10 trends per country

Google's Trending Now RSS feed publishes up to 10 trends per supported country. This Actor lets you request multiple countries in one run, with parallel processing to reduce execution time.

A full 56-country run typically completes in under a minute, although actual execution time depends on network conditions and feed availability.

Include related news articles

When includeNews is enabled, each trend can include up to three related articles when Google provides them. Available fields may include the article title, URL, source, image URL, and snippet.

This provides additional context for understanding why a topic may be attracting attention.

Designed for the current Trending Now feed

This Actor uses Google's public Trending Now RSS feed rather than relying on the retired trends.google.com/trends/api/dailytrends endpoint.

It does not use Google's private APIs or require browser automation.

Built for resilient data collection

Countries are processed independently, so a failure for one country does not automatically stop the others. The Actor retries eligible network failures, logs errors, and writes a RUN_SUMMARY to its key-value store.

The summary reports requested countries, successful and failed countries, total trends retrieved, output rows, and cross-country trend counts.

What can you use it for?

SEO and content research

Discover emerging topics and identify potential subjects for articles, landing pages, and other content.

Content creation

Find ideas for videos, newsletters, blog posts, and social media content based on current search trends.

News monitoring

Monitor what people are searching for and retrieve related news articles when available.

Brand and topic monitoring

Watch for brands, products, people, events, or other subjects appearing in trending searches.

International market research

Compare search trends across France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, and other supported markets in a single workflow.

Automated trend alerts

Schedule regular runs and use isNew to identify terms that have appeared since the previous run.

Cross-market discovery

Filter results using countryCount > 1 to identify topics appearing in multiple countries at the same time.

What you get

The default dataset contains one row per retained trending search, per country.

Example output:

{
  "country": "FR",
  "countryName": "France",
  "rank": 1,
  "term": "example search",
  "isNew": false,
  "rankChange": 3,
  "firstSeenAt": "2026-08-25T08:00:00.000Z",
  "hoursTrending": 3,
  "alsoTrendingIn": ["BE", "CH"],
  "countryCount": 3,
  "trafficLabel": "1000+",
  "trafficMin": 1000,
  "publishedAt": "Mon, 24 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT",
  "imageUrl": "https://example.com/image.jpg",
  "imageSource": "Example News",
  "newsCount": 1,
  "news": [
    {
      "title": "Example related news article",
      "url": "https://example.com/news",
      "source": "Example News",
      "imageUrl": "https://example.com/news-image.jpg",
      "snippet": null
    }
  ],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-25T08:00:00.000Z",
  "sourceUrl": "https://trends.google.com/trending/rss?geo=FR"
}

The values above illustrate the output structure; they are not live results.

Understanding traffic values

• trafficLabel contains Google's published traffic threshold, such as 100+, 1000+, or 50000+.
• trafficMin converts that threshold into a number for programmatic filtering and sorting.

These values are thresholds, not exact search volumes.

Input

Example input:

{
  "countries": ["FR", "GB", "DE", "US"],
  "maxItemsPerCountry": 10,
  "includeNews": true,
  "minTraffic": 1000
}

Available parameters

Field	Default	Description
countries	["FR"]	Country codes to fetch. A single country or an array of countries can be provided.
maxItemsPerCountry	10	Maximum number of trends to retrieve per country, capped at 10.
includeNews	true	Include related news articles when available.
minTraffic	0	Minimum Google traffic threshold to retain. Trends below this threshold are excluded from the output.
language	None	Optional language code for related news, such as fr, en, or de.
timeoutSecs	30	Request timeout in seconds for each country.

Supported countries

The Actor currently supports these 56 country codes:

AR AT AU BE BG BR CA CH CL CO CZ DE DK EG ES FI FR GB GR HK HR HU ID IE IL IN JP KE KR LT LV MA MX MY NG NL NO NZ PE PH PL PT RO RS SA SE SG SK TH TR TW UA US VN ZA

Unknown country codes are reported before requests begin. If all supplied codes are invalid, the run fails with a readable error.

Historical trend detection

Google's Trending Now feed provides a current snapshot. It does not supply the historical movement fields generated by this Actor.

The Actor builds its own history using successive runs stored in its key-value store.

First run

For a country without previous stored history, the following fields are initially null:

isNew = null
rankChange = null
firstSeenAt = null
hoursTrending = null

This avoids incorrectly claiming that a term is new when there is no earlier observation for comparison.

Subsequent runs

Once historical data is available, the Actor can identify new appearances and ranking changes.

For example, if a term moves from rank 7 to rank 2:

rankChange = 5

If a term was absent from the previous recorded run and appears in the current one:

isNew = true

The precision of movement detection depends on how frequently you run the Actor and whether the relevant term appears in the feed during those runs.

For continuous monitoring, schedule hourly or daily executions according to your needs.

Cross-country trend detection

When several countries are requested together, the Actor compares the exact search terms appearing in their results.

Example:

{
  "country": "FR",
  "term": "example trend",
  "alsoTrendingIn": ["BE", "CH"],
  "countryCount": 3
}

You can filter for:

countryCount > 1

This helps identify topics that are trending across multiple markets rather than appearing in only one country.

The comparison is performed among countries included in the same run.

Related news articles

When includeNews is enabled, each trend can include up to three related news articles, if available.

Each article may contain:

• title
• url
• source
• imageUrl
• snippet

The availability of these fields depends on the information supplied by Google's feed.

Reliability and error handling

The Actor includes several safeguards:

• Independent country processing: one country's failure does not automatically abort the other countries.
• Retries: up to three attempts for eligible request failures, with exponential backoff.
• HTTP error handling: HTTP 404 responses are not retried.
• Input validation: invalid country codes are identified before requests begin.
• Run summary: a RUN_SUMMARY record is saved to the key-value store with execution statistics and failure details.
• Explicit failure reporting: if no trends are retrieved at all, the run fails with a readable message.

A successful execution does not guarantee that every requested country will return data.

Performance

This Actor reads Google's public Trending Now RSS feed instead of loading the Google Trends web interface.

It uses:

• Direct RSS requests
• Parallel processing in small batches
• Independent requests per country
• Automatic retries for eligible failures
• Structured dataset output

A full 56-country run typically completes in under a minute, depending on network conditions and feed availability.

Pricing

Pay per dataset item: $1.00 per 1,000 items.

This is equivalent to $0.001 per output item.

You are charged according to the number of items written to the default dataset, subject to the Actor's active Apify pricing configuration.

The cost therefore depends on how many trends are actually retained and written to the dataset, rather than simply how many countries you request.

Estimated costs

The following examples assume that every country produces 10 output rows, with no filtering that reduces the results.

Usage	Estimated output items	Estimated cost
1 country, 1 run	10	$0.01
4 countries, 1 run	40	$0.04
10 countries, 1 run	100	$0.10
56 countries, 1 run	560	$0.56
4 countries, once daily for 30 days	1,200	$1.20
10 countries, once daily for 30 days	3,000	$3.00
56 countries, once daily for 30 days	16,800	$16.80

These are estimates, not guaranteed totals. Actual costs depend on the number of items written, your selected inputs, and the active pricing configuration.

If minTraffic filters out trends, fewer items may be written and the resulting item-based charge may be lower.

Platform usage costs, if any, are separate from the per-item price unless explicitly included in your Apify pricing configuration.

Limits and important details

• Google publishes up to 10 trends per country in the feed used by this Actor.
• Traffic figures are thresholds, not exact search volumes.
• The feed covers Trending Now, not complete historical Google Trends search-volume data.
• Historical movement is calculated from the Actor's own successive observations.
• The first run for a country has no previous history to compare against.
• Historical fields depend on the persistence of the Actor's key-value store and the availability of subsequent observations.
• Cross-country comparisons only include countries requested in the same run.
• Coverage is limited to the 56 supported country codes listed above.
• Related news and image fields depend on what the feed provides.

Data source and disclaimer

This Actor reads the public RSS feed published by Google for Trending Now.

It does not use Google's private APIs and does not require a browser session or scraping of the Google Trends web interface.

Unofficial: This Actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google LLC. Google and Google Trends are trademarks of Google LLC.

This Actor processes aggregate search trend information and links to publicly available news articles. It is not designed to collect individual users' private data.

If you find a bug or have a suggestion for additional country support, use the issue or feedback options available on the Actor page.