Google Trends Opportunity Radar

Find rising Google Trends topics by country and turn them into action-ready SEO, content, ecommerce, and market-research opportunities.

This Actor uses Google's public daily trending-search RSS feed, which is more stable than the fragile Google Trends widget endpoints that often return rate limits. It returns clean trend records with traffic floors, categories, keyword matches, opportunity scores, content angles, and action notes.

Why Use This Actor

Raw trend lists are not enough. Users need to know what to act on.

This Actor helps you:

• Monitor trending searches across countries.
• Spot topics matching your niche keywords.
• Prioritize trends with traffic, freshness, and category scores.
• Generate content, SEO, social, product, or market-research angles.
• Feed daily trend alerts into dashboards, agents, Slack, Notion, Airtable, or content workflows.

Good For

User	Workflow
SEO teams	Find rising keywords before competitors react.
Content marketers	Build trend-based article, video, and newsletter ideas.
Ecommerce sellers	Watch product and shopping demand spikes.
Agencies	Monitor client markets by country.
Indie builders	Discover fast-moving niches and content angles.
AI agents	Pull structured trend opportunities with stable fields.

Input Example

{
  "geos": ["US", "GB", "FR"],
  "keywords": ["ai", "chatgpt", "iphone", "crypto", "jobs", "travel", "stock"],
  "maxTrendsPerGeo": 10,
  "minTraffic": 0,
  "freshnessHours": 168,
  "includeLowSignal": true
}

Output

Each dataset item contains:

{
  "platform": "google_trends_rss",
  "geo": "US",
  "title": "openai stock",
  "category": "ai_tools",
  "approxTraffic": "20K+",
  "trafficFloor": 20000,
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-22T13:50:00+00:00",
  "ageHours": 2,
  "keywordMatches": ["openai"],
  "trendScore": 73,
  "opportunityLabel": "WATCH_NOW",
  "contentAngle": "Create comparison, tutorial, or alternatives content around 'openai stock' while search intent is rising.",
  "actionNote": "Good watchlist item: validate search intent and schedule recurring monitoring.",
  "sourceUrl": "https://trends.google.com/trending/rss?geo=US",
  "dedupeKey": "...",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-22T13:55:00+00:00"
}

Notes And Limitations

• This Actor is optimized for stable daily trending-search discovery.
• It does not currently return full historical interest-over-time charts because the Google Trends widget API is rate-limited and less reliable.
• Approximate traffic is a floor from Google Trends, such as 500+, 20K+, or 1M+.
• Use the output as a discovery and monitoring layer, then validate strong trends with SERP, Reddit, YouTube, ads, or product data.

Local Development

apify run --purge --input-file examples\cloud-smoke.json
python tests\qa_harness.py