# Google Trends Trending Now — Many Countries, Volume & News (`saliga/google-trends-trending-now`) Actor

What people search for right now on Google, for one or many countries in one run: trending searches with approximate volume, start time, picture and related news articles. Filter by volume and keywords. $1 per 1,000 trends.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/saliga/google-trends-trending-now.md
- **Developed by:** [Salih Küçükkayış](https://apify.com/saliga) (community)
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 trends

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?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

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.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

What people are searching for on Google **right now**, for **one or many countries in one run**: each trending search with its **approximate search volume**, **when it started**, a picture and the **news articles** Google links to it. From Google Trends' public "Trending now" feed.

**$1 per 1,000 trends.** No proxies, no login.

### Quick start

Press **Start** with the example input: the current trending searches in the United States and the United Kingdom.

```json
{
  "geos": ["US", "GB", "DE", "TR", "BR", "IN"],
  "minTraffic": 1000,
  "keywords": "ai, iphone, election"
}
```

### What you get

```json
{
  "geo": "US",
  "rank": 1,
  "query": "election results",
  "approxTraffic": "2M+",
  "traffic": 2000000,
  "startedAt": "2026-11-04T09:00:00Z",
  "picture": "https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=…",
  "pictureSource": "The Example Times",
  "newsCount": 3,
  "topNewsTitle": "Live results: …",
  "topNewsUrl": "https://news.example/…",
  "news": [{"title": "…", "url": "…", "source": "…", "picture": "…"}],
  "exploreUrl": "https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=election%20results&date=now%207-d",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-11-04T11:00:00Z"
}
```

`traffic` is the lower end of Google's range as a number (200+ → 200, 10K+ → 10000), handy for sorting and filtering.

### Use it for

- **Newsrooms and creators**: a feed of rising topics per country every hour, with the news that explains each one.
- **SEO and content teams**: spot topics early and plan articles; open `exploreUrl` for the 7-day interest curve.
- **Monitoring**: schedule it and connect Slack, e-mail or Google Sheets; filter by your keywords so only relevant trends arrive.

### Inputs

- **Countries**: two-letter codes (US, GB, DE, FR, TR, BR, IN, JP …), as many as you like.
- **Keywords**: keep trends whose search or news titles contain any of the words.
- **Minimum search volume** and **Maximum trends per country**.
- **Include news articles**: on by default.

### What it costs

**$1 per 1,000 trends** written to the dataset, plus a tiny $0.00005 start fee per run. A feed holds a few dozen trends per country, so an hourly run for 3 countries costs around $0.10 a day.

### Good to know

- This is Google's live "Trending now" list for the last hours, not historical interest over time. For interest over time, regions and related queries, see [Google Trends API](https://apify.com/saliga/google-trends).
- Search volumes are Google's approximate ranges.

### More from this developer

- [Google Trends API](https://apify.com/saliga/google-trends): interest over time, by region, related queries and topics.
- [Keyword Search Volume](https://apify.com/saliga/keyword-search-volume): monthly Google search volume, CPC and competition for your keywords.
- [Google Sheets Import & Export](https://apify.com/saliga/google-sheets-import-export): collect the trends in a Google Sheet.

Questions or a missing feature: open an issue on the Actor page.

**Need a custom version?** I also build custom Actors, changes to this one, and n8n or Make integrations around them, for a fixed price. Open an issue on the Actor page starting with "Custom request", or email support@saligasoftware.com, with what you need and an example input.

# Actor input Schema

## `geos` (type: `array`):

Two-letter country codes, e.g. US, GB, DE, TR, BR, IN. Each country is one feed of the latest trending searches.

## `keywords` (type: `string`):

Only trends whose search or news titles contain any of these words (comma separated). Empty: all.

## `minTraffic` (type: `integer`):

Only trends with at least this approximate number of searches (Google shows ranges like 200+, 10K+, 1M+).

## `maxItemsPerGeo` (type: `integer`):

Empty: all trends in the feed.

## `includeNews` (type: `boolean`):

The news articles Google links to each trend (title, URL, source, picture).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "geos": [
    "US",
    "GB"
  ],
  "includeNews": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

One row per trending search and country.

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

Countries, trends found and written, errors.

# 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 = {
    "geos": [
        "US",
        "GB"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("saliga/google-trends-trending-now").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 = { "geos": [
        "US",
        "GB",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("saliga/google-trends-trending-now").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 '{
  "geos": [
    "US",
    "GB"
  ]
}' |
apify call saliga/google-trends-trending-now --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/oubrOrR1fxuTUdXOt/builds/dKlFL608wplEXulcH/openapi.json