Trending Keywords for Your Niche: AI Google Trends Alerts

Your niche's new trending keywords and Black Friday peaks, in your inbox every week.

⚡ First 25 trends free · 💵 from $0.003 per qualified trend · 🤖 ≈ $0.015 all in with AI · ⏱️ a week of 4 countries + 5 seeds read in 10 s

Try it in 30 seconds. Click Try it — the form is pre-filled with 7 sample Google Trends rows, free. Then type your niche keywords (or pick one of 14 ready niches) and press Start: the first 25 qualified trends are free; off-niche searches cost nothing here. → How to use it · What a run costs · What the AI adds · Run it weekly

⚡ At a glance

What you get	This week's trending searches in your countries that concern your niche, momentum for your own keywords — urgency, evidence and a headline to publish
You provide	a few niche keywords (e.g. coffee, pizza), the countries, optionally seed keywords
Output	a ranked sheet (Excel / CSV / Sheets) and an e-mail / Slack digest
Typical run	first run = the last 7 days of US, GB, CA (≈ 2,300 searches, free); measured 2026-09-29: 13 food, 16 travel, 1 fitness match — a food blog + 5 seeds: 28 qualified in 10 s
Cost of that run	$0.13 rules only · $0.48 with the AI (5 seeds × $0.01 + 28 trends × $0.003, or × $0.009 + ≈ $0.0062 tokens); your first 25 trends free
Agencies	pick Agency roster, edit its 2 example brands: 10 brands weekly ≈ $16 a month with the AI and a white-label report each — vs one Exploding Topics Business plan at $249 a month
Free tier	first 25 qualified trends per account and the first 5 digests, no start fee of ours
Keys / setup	Apify model access: no key · Other plans: your own key — free Gemini / Groq = 1–3 AI verdicts per run, paid = every trend
Works with	Schedules, e-mail, Slack, Teams, Discord, webhooks, Sheets, Make / n8n / Zapier, MCP & AI agents

🎯 What this Actor does

It reads Google Trends directly — each country's Trending Now list and your seed keywords' curves — on any Apify plan, and keeps only the trends worth your next post.

🎄 Black Friday trending keywords and holiday trending keywords

The Black Friday & holiday preset watches decorations, costumes and gifts in 4 countries and reads 5 seasonal seeds on 5-year curves — 7 days, 2026-09-29: 4 of 2,620 searches matched ("m&s christmas food 2026" …).

• Seasonal keyword calendar (calendarMode) — up to 50 keywords on 5-year curves → the month each peaks and the date to start publishing, page + CSV: $0.02 a keyword, one-off.
• Instant alerts (trendAlerts) — each publish-now trend above your bar posted to Slack / Teams at once, $0.01.

🔎 Find trending topics in your niche — filtered for free

A country's feed is hundreds of searches of sport, celebrities and news. Your niche keywords are matched in each search and its related searches; off-niche, excluded, small, sensitive and repeated searches drop out before anything is charged. A narrow niche (< 3 matches) gets its keywords read as seeds, free.

📈 Rising keywords and breakout keywords — a momentum verdict from the curve

Your seed keywords get breakout / rising / seasonal peak soon / stable / declining with the % change and the next seasonal peak, plus up to 3 rising related queries each ("+4,250 %", "Breakout").

✍️ Discover content ideas from Google Trends — an angle per trend

The AI says why the trend matters to your audience and writes a ≤ 90-character headline in your format with ≤ 5 target keywords copied verbatim from the trend's own searches; without it you get a template angle. Every row links its own Google Trends page.

🚀 How to use it

1. Click Try it — 7 sample rows run free: 4 qualify, the NFL game, the hurricane and a recall are dropped.
2. Type your niche keywords (or pick a preset) — they replace the sample and start the live read; the first run reads 7 days, a schedule the last 24 h.
3. Keep AI verdict and content angle on and press Start — your first 5 trends get live AI verdicts on any plan; all 25 free trends with Apify model access or a paid own key.
4. Add your e-mail and schedule it weekly — your first real run links a saved task.

🏢 Agency in 3 steps

1. Pick Agency roster in Start from a ready niche search.
2. Edit the 2 example clients in Agency clients — name, niche keywords, countries, the client's e-mail.
3. Press Start, then schedule it: each client gets its own search, memory, digest and a white-label report ($0.10 per report with new trends).

📚 Learn more: Step-by-step tutorial — find trending keywords for your niche with this Actor

🆚 Why this instead of running Google Trends Scraper yourself?

vs other Google Trends Actors for "trending keywords"

Store API 2026-09-28; the same read — a week of US, GB, CA, AU (2,620 searches), 13 for a food blog (2026-09-29):

	This Actor	vnx0 Google Trends Daily Scraper	steadyfetch Breakout Keywords	cybermax Swellmeter
Price	$0.003 · $0.009 AI per qualified trend, 25 free	$0.0012 per row	$0.006 per breakout keyword	$0.003 per keyword
That week, all in	$0.04 for the 13 rules only · $0.20 with the AI; the 2,620 read free	≈ $3.14 for the 2,620 rows — you filter by hand	seeds only — no trending feed	your own keywords only, no feed
Niche filter	yes — rules, AI on top	no (its README)	no	no

Running data_xplorer/google-trends-fast-scraper yourself (our fallback) for the same week + 5 seeds: ≈ $0.20 of runs and 2,620 raw searches to read by hand; here 28 ranked trends for $0.13 rules only.

💸 Exploding Topics alternative and Treendly alternative — no seat. Exploding Topics: $39/month, Business $249/month (explodingtopics.com/pricing, checked 2026-09-28); Treendly Pro: $8/month billed yearly (treendly.com/pricing, checked 2026-09-28). The food example weekly here: ≈ $0.60 a month rules only, ≈ $1.50 with the AI.

Google Trends (Trending now + Explore) is free and wins for a one-off look and charts (FAQ below).

💵 Pricing — what a run really costs

Pay per result: one event per qualified trend; the extras below never grow with the trends.

Event	When it is charged	Price
free-tier	your first 25 qualified trends on this Actor	$0.00
qualified-trend-basic	AI off — relevance with evidence, urgency, momentum, template angle	$0.003
qualified-trend-ai	AI on — plus the AI check, why it matters, sensitivity, the AI angle	$0.009
seed-verdict	one of your seed keywords read — curve, verdict, rising queries	$0.01
digest-delivered	a digest with ≥ 1 new trend reached you — the first 5 free	$0.02
client-report	one white-label report per agency client with new trends	$0.10
trend-dossier	one brief per top trend (dossierTopN)	$0.03
trend-alert	one instant alert per publish-now trend (trendAlerts)	$0.01
calendar-seed	one keyword on the seasonal calendar (calendarMode)	$0.02

Never charged by us: off-niche trends, excluded words, small volumes, sensitive topics, repeats from earlier runs, a narrow niche's own seed reads, the preview, demo rows; no start fee. Only a read Google refuses falls back to the Store scraper on your account ($0.022 a run), capped by Max source spend.

How that compares — $0.003 is 1.2× the Store median ($0.0025 across the 10 priced Actors of the "trending keywords" search): you pay per qualified trend, never per raw row — one qualified trend replaces ≈ 94 raw trending searches read (2,620 → 28).

Worked example (measured 2026-09-29) — the food preset, 4 countries × 7 days (2,620 searches, free) + 5 seeds ($0.05) → 28 qualified × $0.003 → $0.13 total, ≈ $0.005 per trend. AI on: 28 × ($0.009 + ≈ $0.0062 tokens) + $0.05 → $0.48 total, ≈ $0.017 per trend.

AI tier, all in: ≈ $0.0152 per trend ($0.009 + ≈ $0.004–0.006 tokens: 1,173 / 539 and 1,277 / 984 in / out measured 2026-09-28 on Groq and Gemini, at Claude Haiku 4.5 rates; the higher one is used) — billed via Apify's model access or your own key.

At volume — an agency, 10 clients weekly (5 seeds each, AI): ≈ $3.80 a week with 10 client reports (≈ $16 a month). E-commerce: a 50-keyword Q4 calendar once ($1.00), then 20 seeds weekly ≈ $0.81 a week with the AI.

🤖 What the AI tier adds

The AI confirms the trend fits your niche, turns it into a headline and drops what it cannot connect — ≈ 4 min per trend by hand, timed: reading the related searches of the 7 demo trends and drafting a headline each (2026-09-28). dossierTopN adds a one-page brief for the top trends.

Try the AI on any plan: the demo shows labelled sample AI verdicts; your first 5 real trends get live AI verdicts on any plan; all 25 free trends with Apify model access or a paid own key. A free Gemini key (aistudio.google.com/apikey) gives 1–3 AI verdicts per run (the rest are basic rows); a paid Gemini / Groq key (billing on) assesses every trend.

⚙️ Input

Type your niche keywords (or pick a preset), keep the countries and AI on — everything else has a default.

Flags for targetFlags: niche_in_term, niche_in_related, high_volume, breakout, seasonal_peak, rising_query, commercial_intent, sensitive_topic — nicheInTerm works too (docs/API.md#flags-for-targetflags).

📤 Output

One dataset item per qualified trend. Views: Shortlist (with when Google saw it and its search volume), Content plan, Seed momentum and Brand safety.

Upsert key for a CRM or Sheet: dedupeKey — trend type + country + normalised term (+ a seed's verdict), the cross-run memory's key; itemId is its short hash.

Which record to read: OUTPUT (= RUN_SUMMARY) holds the funnel, chargedEvents, aiCoverage and seedVerdicts; the DIGEST, the REPORT page (OUTPUT.reportUrl) and CALENDAR sit next to it (docs/API.md#key-value-records).

⭐ Found it useful? A review on the Store helps others find it — it takes a minute on the Actor's page.

🔁 Run it weekly — Google Trends alerts on a schedule

1. Open the saved task and click Schedule after your first real run, with notifyEmail — every run with new trends e-mails the digest (the first 5 free, then $0.02).
2. Leave dedupeAcrossRuns: true — you pay only for new trends, per search; a recurring trend (Halloween costumes each October) returns after dedupeTtlDays (60); the digest says what changed ("qualified 18 → 23").
3. Chat webhooks post the digest, trendAlerts pings at once, historyDatasetName keeps a log; Google Sheets fills your copy of the tracker sheet (dedupeKey first to upsert on).

Weekly cost is the new trends only: the food example ≈ $0.13 a week rules only, ≈ $0.48 with the AI (the first run; later weeks read 24 h). A scheduled run adds last week's best trends as seeds (OUTPUT.seedsRolled).

🎯 Try it for your niche

Pick one in Start from a ready niche search (preset) and press Start — your own values win. 14 niches, from personal finance (28 matches a week) to home decor (1 + its seeds), each measured on a real 7-day read (2026-09-29):

🔌 Integrations, automation and API

• Webhook — webhookUrl POSTs each trend (or batches) to Zapier, Make, n8n or your CMS, with webhookHeaders.
• Slack, Teams, Google Chat, Discord — slackWebhookUrl, teamsWebhookUrl, googleChatWebhookUrl or discordWebhookUrl posts one readable digest per run, with links.
• HubSpot / Notion / Airtable — a Make / Zapier step: title = suggestedAngle, notes = whyItMatters + url, upsert on dedupeKey.
• Google Sheets / MCP — the Integrations tab, or any MCP client; {} runs the demo.

Every run writes OUTPUT.mode (demo / live / preview / calendar / clients / list / dataset) — the full "Which call runs what" table, every run outcome and the webhook payloads are in the docs/API.md.

List-mode rows — what a pasted record needs

sourceMode: "list" runs on any Apify plan: paste Google Trends rows you already have into itemsList (docs/API.md#list-mode-rows--what-a-pasted-record-needs).

Run outcomes — what your integration sees

👥 Who is it for?

You are…	You run it to…	Start with
E-commerce / brand team	catch Black Friday and holiday demand early; plan Q4 by each keyword's peak	ecommerce-seasonal, calendarMode
Content marketer / SEO lead / newsletter writer	find trending topics in your niche weekly, with an angle	nicheKeywords or a niche preset
Agency / social media manager	one task for all clients, a white-label report each	agency-roster, clients
AI-agent / automation builder	a typed, deduplicated trend feed for your writer agent	the minimal agent input

🧠 How the AI works

One typed call per trend, grounded in the trend's own searches; counts always come from code.

🔒 Data, compliance and limits

Google Trends data is public, aggregated search interest — no personal data, no login. Volumes are Google's labels (50K+), the curve is 0–100 relative interest; the reader asks for what the Trending Now and Explore pages show, one seed at a time. Use the output within Google's terms and GDPR / CCPA.

❓ FAQ

What will my first real search cost? Feeds free, $0.01 per seed keyword, the first 25 trends free — the food example: $0.13. Store fallback runs are capped by maxDiscoveryChargeUsd ($0.50).

How do I find trending topics in my niche? Type your niche keywords or pick a preset; Free preview shows last week's count and its weekly price first.

Where do I find Black Friday trending keywords and holiday trending keywords? Pick the Black Friday & holiday preset; for Q4 planning run calendarMode on your product keywords — the month each peaks and when to start.

Can I use it for Google Trends keyword research? Yes — seedKeywords get the curve's verdict, % change, peak and next seasonal peak; includeTimeline adds the curve.

How do I find rising keywords and breakout keywords? Seed keywords with the rising / breakout verdicts, plus their rising related queries ("+4,250 %", "Breakout"), on by default.

How do I discover content ideas from Google Trends? Keep the AI on: every trend gets a headline, its format and target keywords; dossierTopN adds a one-page brief for the top ones.

How do I get Google Trends alerts for my niche? Schedule the saved task with notifyEmail or slackWebhookUrl — only new trends arrive; trendAlerts pings each publish-now trend at once.

Is this an Exploding Topics alternative? For search trends, yes — per trend, no seat; includeTiktok adds TikTok.

Why pay when Google Trends is free? Google Trends wins for a one-off look, charts and comparing 5 terms; this adds the niche filter, memory, verdicts, schedule, alerts and the angle.

How long does a run take? One row per mode — size your timeoutSecs from it:

What does "qualified" mean? Relevant to your niche (≥ minScore), past every free filter, not sensitive, and for a seed a verdict you selected.

What happens if nothing matches my filters? 0 rows, no trend charged, and words to add or exclude (OUTPUT.suggestedTerms).

🧩 More Actors from the same developer

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• Reddit Brand Monitoring — hear what your niche says about a trend on Reddit, the thread to answer first.
• Threads Brand Monitoring — see who posts about your brand on Threads while a trend peaks.

🆘 Support

Open an issue on the Actor's page — buyer requests ship first.

📝 Changelog

• 0.1.3 (2026-09-29) — seed keywords read directly ($0.01 each, any plan); the first run reads 7 days of US, GB, CA; a seasonal calendar and instant alerts; 14 ready niches and an agency roster; the preview quotes its price.
• 0.1.2 (2026-09-29) — trending feeds read directly, free; a 7-day preview; agency clients in one task.
• 0.1.1 (2026-09-29) — first release: trending searches filtered to your niche, seed momentum, AI angles.