Google Trends Trending Now Scraper — Search Volume, News & New-Trend Alerts

Get the live Google Trends "Trending Now" list for any country or region: what people are searching for right now, how many searches, how fast it is growing, when it started, its category, the related searches Google groups under it, and the news articles behind it.

• Several countries in one run. US, GB, DE, IN, JP, or regions like US-CA.
• Only new trends. Run it on a schedule and each run returns only trends you haven't seen yet, so you pay for each trend once. This is built for alerts.
• News articles included at no extra charge. Headline, URL, publisher, publish time and image for each trend.
• Filters: category (Sports, Politics, Technology…), still-active only, minimum search volume, sort order and a cap per country.
• $1 per 1,000 trends, and no start fee. Countries that fail and trends you filter out are never charged.
• No browser. It reads the same data the Trending Now page loads, so a run takes seconds.

Who it's for

• SEO and content teams looking for topics to publish on while search demand is rising.
• Newsrooms and social media managers who want an alert when a story starts trending in their market.
• Marketers and agencies comparing what's hot across several countries.
• Traders and analysts who treat search spikes as an early signal.
• Developers feeding live trends into dashboards, Slack bots, LLM pipelines or a database.

What you get

One row per trending search per country:

{
  "trend": "panthers vs packers",
  "geo": "US",
  "rank": 2,
  "isActive": true,
  "startedAt": "2026-10-29T05:30:00.000Z",
  "endedAt": null,
  "trendingForHours": 23,
  "searchVolume": 1000000,
  "searchVolumeLabel": "1M+",
  "increasePercent": 1000,
  "categories": ["Sports"],
  "relatedSearches": ["packers", "packers vs panthers", "panthers", "..."],
  "newsArticles": [
    { "title": "…", "url": "https://www.espn.com/…", "source": "ESPN", "publishedAt": "2026-10-30T03:29:31.000Z", "imageUrl": "https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=…" }
  ],
  "exploreUrl": "https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=panthers%20vs%20packers&geo=US&date=now%201-d",
  "windowHours": 24,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-30T04:30:00.000Z"
}

Field	Meaning
trend	The trending search, as Google shows it (in the country's own language).
rank	Position on Google's Trending Now page for that country (1 = top).
searchVolume / searchVolumeLabel	Searches in the window, as Google's bucket: 5000000 / 5M+ means at least 5 million.
increasePercent	Growth over the usual volume, in percent. Google tops out at 1000 (shown as 1,000% on the page).
isActive, startedAt, endedAt, trendingForHours	Whether it is still trending, and for how long.
categories	Google's Trending Now categories. A trend can have several.
relatedSearches	The searches Google groups under the trend (its "trend breakdown").
newsArticles	Only when Include news articles is on.
exploreUrl	The Google Trends chart for the trend.

Export as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or read it through the API.

Quick start

Top 25 trends in the US right now: in the Console, the input is already filled in with US and a cap of 25. Click Start. (Through the API, an empty input returns the whole US list.)

Today's top sports and politics trends in three countries, with news:

{
  "geos": ["US", "GB", "CA"],
  "timeWindow": "24",
  "categories": ["17", "14"],
  "sortBy": "searchVolume",
  "maxItemsPerGeo": 20,
  "includeNews": true,
  "newsPerTrend": 3
}

Get alerts for new trends (scheduled monitoring)

1. Turn on Only new trends since the last run and give the run a Monitor ID, for example us-all.
2. Save the input as a task, then add a schedule to it in the Console, for example every hour.
3. Connect an integration to the task: Slack, email, Google Sheets, Zapier, Make or a webhook. Each run sends only the trends that appeared since the previous run.

The first run returns everything currently trending that passes your filters. After that you only see, and only pay for, what's new. With Max trends per country set, the cap is the most alerts you get per run: trends past the cap are marked as seen and skipped, so a busy hour never leaves you working through a backlog of older trends. Use Sort by: Newest first if the cap should keep the freshest ones. Each Monitor ID keeps its own list, so give tasks with different filters different IDs, and don't let two runs with the same ID overlap. A trend that stays on Google's list is never returned twice. The list is kept in a key-value store named google-trending-now-seen in your own account, and it's saved as each country finishes, so a run that's aborted partway doesn't make the next run bill those trends again.

Input

Option	Default	Notes
Countries / regions	["US"]	Two-letter codes (US, GB, DE, IN, BR, JP…) or regions (US-CA, GB-ENG).
Time window	Past 24 hours	Past 4 hours, 24 hours, 48 hours or 7 days, the windows Google offers.
Categories	all	Autos and Vehicles, Beauty and Fashion, Business and Finance, Climate, Entertainment, Food and Drink, Games, Health, Hobbies and Leisure, Jobs and Education, Law and Government, Other, Pets and Animals, Politics, Science, Shopping, Sports, Technology, Travel and Transportation.
Only trends that are still active	off	Skip trends Google marks as ended.
Minimum search volume	0	Use a bucket value: 100, 200, 500, 1000, 2000, 5000, 10000, 20000, 50000, 100000, 200000, 500000, 1000000…
Max trends per country	0 (all)	A large country has 300–500 trends in 24 hours and several thousand over 7 days.
Sort by	Google's order	Or search volume, or newest first. Applied before the cap.
Include news articles / Articles per trend	off / 3	Up to 10 articles per trend.
Only new trends / Monitor ID	off / default	See the monitoring section.
Language	en-US	Language of Google's response. Affects news and some labels.
Proxy	off	Off: the Actor connects directly and switches to Apify residential proxies by itself if Google blocks it.

Pricing

$0.001 per trend stored ($1 per 1,000). No start fee. You don't pay for countries that fail, trends removed by your filters, or trends already seen in only-new mode. News articles are included at no extra charge.

Examples:

• Top 25 trends in one country: $0.025.
• The full 24-hour US list (about 450–500 trends): about $0.50.
• US every hour with Only new trends: you pay for each trend once, so about one full 24-hour list per day, roughly $0.30–$0.50 a day.

Set a maximum charge per run in the run options. The Actor stops cleanly at that limit and tells you which countries it didn't fetch.

Need more than today's trends?

Trending Now shows what is spiking at the moment. To see a keyword's interest over time (back to 2004), interest by region, or related queries and topics, pass the trends you find here to the Google Trends Scraper. Each row's exploreUrl also opens the trend in Google Trends.

FAQ

How fresh is the data? Each run fetches the live Trending Now list, the same one trends.google.com/trending shows at that moment.

Which countries are supported? Every country and region Google's Trending Now page offers. A code that's unsupported or mistyped (like USA) is skipped, reported in the run's status message and not charged; the other countries in the run still go through.

Why is search volume a round number? Google only publishes volume in buckets (2K+, 50K+, 1M+). searchVolume is the bucket's lower bound.

Why do trends appear in several countries? Big stories trend everywhere. Each country's row has its own rank, volume and timing.

Is this an official Google API? No. Google doesn't offer a Trending Now API. This Actor reads the same public data the Trending Now page shows.

Feedback and reviews

Missing a field or a country? Open an issue on the Issues tab and I'll take a look. If the Actor saves you time, a quick review on the Reviews tab helps other people find it.