Google Trends Indonesia - Trending Now Scraper

Get Indonesia's real-time trending searches straight from Google Trends - topic, approximate search volume, growth percentage, related search terms, and linked news articles, all in one clean dataset. No browser, no API key, and no CAPTCHA-solving required: this Actor talks directly to Google's own trending feed and returns structured JSON in seconds.

Why use this Google Trends Trending scraper?

Google Trends has no official public API for "Sedang trending" (Trending Now), and its backend changed recently, so most existing tools and libraries are out of date. This Actor was built by reverse-engineering the current, live endpoint - not an old cached protocol - which means it keeps working while outdated scrapers break. It's a great fit for:

• Content and social media teams who need to know what's trending in Indonesia right now to plan timely posts.
• Marketers and SEO researchers tracking search volume spikes and breakout topics by category.
• News and media monitoring teams who want a trend's related news articles the moment it starts climbing.
• Data analysts building a historical trending-topics archive, since Google Trends itself only keeps a short lookback window.

Running it on the Apify platform also gets you scheduling, an instant API for every result, and one-click integrations with Zapier, Make, Google Sheets, and dozens of other tools - turning a manual page-refresh habit into an automated data feed.

How to use the Trending Now scraper

1. Click Try for free (or Start) on this Actor's page.
2. Set Country (defaults to ID for Indonesia).
3. Optionally narrow results with Time range, Category, Active trends only, and Sort by - these mirror the filters on trends.google.com exactly.
4. Click Start and wait a few seconds for the run to finish.
5. Open the Dataset tab to view, filter, and export your results.

Input

The Input tab lets you configure:

Field	Description	Default
geo	ISO country code to fetch trending searches for	ID
hours	Time range: last 4, 24, 48 hours, or 7 days	24
category	Restrict to one category (Sports, Politics, Entertainment, etc.) or all	All categories
activeOnly	Only return currently active trends	false
sortBy	Order results by relevance, title, search volume, or recency	relevance

{
    "geo": "ID",
    "hours": "24",
    "category": "0",
    "activeOnly": false,
    "sortBy": "relevance"
}

Output

Each dataset item is one trending topic:

{
    "title": "gubernur bi",
    "geo": "ID",
    "started_at": "2026-07-25T06:00:00+00:00",
    "approx_volume": 50000,
    "growth_percent": 1000,
    "breakdown_terms": ["gubernur bi", "perry warjiyo", "destry damayanti"],
    "category_ids": [10, 14],
    "related_articles": [
        { "article_id": 4750050386, "lang": "id", "geo": "ID" }
    ]
}

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel.

Data table

Field	Description
title	The trending search term
geo	Country code the trend applies to
started_at	ISO 8601 timestamp of when the trend started
approx_volume	Approximate search volume (e.g. 100000 matches the "100 rb+" badge in the UI)
growth_percent	Search interest growth, matching the "%" badge shown in the UI
breakdown_terms	Related/breakdown search queries for this trend
category_ids	Google Trends category id(s) this trend was tagged under
related_articles	News articles associated with the trend (article_id, lang, geo)

Cost estimation

This Actor uses plain HTTP requests (no browser), so a run is fast and cheap - a single fetch typically finishes in a few seconds and uses a fraction of a Compute Unit. On the Apify free plan, you can comfortably run this hundreds of times per month at no cost.

Tips

• Combine Time range = last 7 days with Sort by = search volume to surface the week's biggest topics at a glance.
• Schedule this Actor hourly using Apify's built-in scheduler to build your own trending-topics history, since Google Trends itself doesn't keep a long lookback for this view.
• Google's own category filter is a ranking bias rather than a hard filter - if you need a strict category match, filter on the category_ids array client-side after export.

FAQ, limitations & support

• What data isn't included? The "Aktif" (active) status badge and the 24-hour interest graph could not be reliably traced in the underlying data during reverse-engineering, so they're not part of the output yet.
• Is this legal to use? This Actor only reads the same public page a browser would load - it does not bypass CAPTCHAs, logins, or any anti-bot protection. Use responsibly and respect Google's Terms of Service.
• Looking for Explore or Related Queries data? Check the companion Actors in this collection - see the root of this repository for status.
• Found a bug or want a feature added? Use the Issues tab on this Actor's page, or reach out - a custom solution is also available on request.