Google Trends Trending Now – Trending Searches by Country

Get Google Trends "Trending Now" as clean JSON: the searches that are spiking right now in any country or US state, with search volume, growth, start time, category and related searches. Built for SEO and content teams, newsrooms, marketers, researchers and AI agents that need a daily list of what people are searching for, without a Google account, API key or proxy. One run covers as many regions as you list. Hundreds of trends per large region (about 300 for the US in 24 hours, about 1,900 in 7 days), sorted by search volume.

What you get

• Search volume and growth: how many searches in the window (Google reports steps such as 1,000, 20,000, 1,000,000) and how fast interest is growing, in percent.
• When and what: the exact start time, an end time once the trend is over, a still trending flag, category names such as Sports, Politics or Entertainment, and the related searches Google groups under the trend.
• Filters that save money: pick the time window (4 hours, 24 hours, 48 hours, 7 days), categories, a minimum search volume, still-trending only, and the top N per region.

Example row

{
  "rank": 1,
  "query": "wnba playoffs",
  "geo": "US",
  "search_volume": 2000000,
  "growth_percent": 1000,
  "started_at": "2026-09-29T12:10:00+00:00",
  "ended_at": null,
  "is_active": true,
  "categories": ["Sports"],
  "category_ids": [17],
  "related_queries": ["lynx vs liberty", "minnesota lynx", "wnba 2026"],
  "news_article_count": 42,
  "trend_url": "https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=wnba%20playoffs&geo=US",
  "window_hours": 24,
  "language": "en-US",
  "source": "trending_now",
  "scraped_at": "2026-09-30T12:03:13+00:00"
}

Input

Field	What it does
geos	Region codes: countries (US, GB, DE, NO, JP) or US states (US-CA). Default US.
hours	Window: 4, 24 (default), 48 or 168 hours.
maxTrendsPerGeo	Keep the top N per region by search volume. Default 50.
categories	Only these categories (Sports, Politics, Entertainment, Business & Finance, Technology, and more). Empty = all.
minSearchVolume	Skip small trends. Default 0.
activeOnly	Keep only trends that have not ended yet.
language	Google's interface language, for example en-US or nb-NO.

rank is the trend's position in its region by search volume before your filters, so a filtered run keeps the true rank.

Pricing

Pay per event: $1 per 1,000 trends ($0.001 per trend), plus a start fee of $0.001 per run. The default run (top 50 for the US) costs about $0.05. Error rows, such as an unknown region code, are never charged. A run where every region code is unknown ends as failed, with the reason in the error rows.

Good to know

• Data comes from Google's public Trending Now page, with no login and no proxy. If Google ever changes that page, the Actor falls back to Google's public Trending Now feed, which lists 10 searches per region; those rows have "source": "rss_fallback", no growth, category or related searches, and volume in rough steps. Fallback rows always cover about the last 24 hours and are not filtered by category.
• Search volume, growth and categories are Google's own numbers and labels: volume is rounded, growth_percent tops out at 1000, and a category can be debatable (a match between two national teams may be filed under Other).
• In the 7-day window a term can appear twice with different start times when it trended in two separate episodes. About two thirds of rows have an empty related_queries list: Google groups no other searches under them.
• Trending terms are public search phrases. Some are names of public figures in the news; the Actor returns the phrase only and no profile data.
• trend_url opens the term in Google Trends in a browser. This Actor does not return interest-over-time charts.
• Not affiliated with Google. Google Trends is a trademark of Google LLC.
• Schedule it daily and diff the results to spot what is new. Sorted output makes the biggest movers easy to pick up first.