# Google Trends Trending Now — RSS API (`quartz_apple_dnx/google-trends-trending-rss`) Actor

Get current Google Trends trending searches by country from the public RSS feed, with Google's approximate traffic label, related news, ranks, and exact source provenance.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/quartz\_apple\_dnx/google-trends-trending-rss.md
- **Developed by:** [Austin DeMoss](https://apify.com/quartz_apple_dnx) (community)
- **Categories:** SEO tools, News, Marketing
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

$0.05 / 1,000 google trending topics

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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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Google Trends Trending Now — RSS API

Get the searches currently trending on Google by country using Google's public Trending Now RSS feed.

This Actor is intentionally narrow and reliability-first. It does **not** scrape Google Trends Explore charts, does not use residential proxies, and does not invent search-volume numbers.

### What it does

- requests the public Trending Now RSS feed for one or more countries;
- returns the trend/search phrase;
- preserves Google's own approximate traffic label and parses a numeric minimum when possible;
- includes publication time, trend link, picture/source, and related news stories when supplied;
- preserves country rank and exact RSS feed provenance;
- deduplicates repeated rows within each country;
- exports structured data through Apify datasets/API.

### Example input

```json
{
  "countries": ["US", "GB", "CA"],
  "maxResults": 60,
  "maxResultsPerCountry": 20,
  "concurrency": 3
}
```

### Output

Each row includes:

- `trend`;
- `approxTraffic` — Google's label such as `200K+`, when supplied;
- `approxTrafficMin` — a mechanical parse of that same Google label, not an independent estimate;
- `publishedAt`;
- `trendUrl`;
- `picture` and `pictureSource`;
- `newsItems`;
- `geo`, `geoRank`, and global `rank`;
- exact `sourceFeedUrl`;
- UTC `capturedAt`.

### Pricing

Pay per delivered trend row. Failed country requests and empty feeds are not charged as trend rows.

### Limitations

The RSS feed is a small current snapshot, not the complete Google Trends historical database. Country coverage and the number of trends can vary. Google's approximate traffic value is a coarse label supplied by Google; this Actor does not turn it into fake precision.

# Actor input Schema

## `countries` (type: `array`):

One to 60 two-letter country codes, for example US, GB, CA, AU, IN.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Hard cap on rows saved across all country feeds.

## `maxResultsPerCountry` (type: `integer`):

Cap on current trends saved from each country feed.

## `concurrency` (type: `integer`):

Number of country RSS feeds requested simultaneously.

## `timeoutSecs` (type: `integer`):

Maximum seconds for each RSS request.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "countries": [
    "US"
  ],
  "maxResults": 1000,
  "maxResultsPerCountry": 20,
  "concurrency": 4,
  "timeoutSecs": 15
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `trends` (type: `string`):

No description

## `summary` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("quartz_apple_dnx/google-trends-trending-rss").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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("quartz_apple_dnx/google-trends-trending-rss").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 '{}' |
apify call quartz_apple_dnx/google-trends-trending-rss --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/In9WotLCxxhhagwhl/builds/YTa24bdCTYriBbZa2/openapi.json