📈 Google Trends API: Interest Over Time, Regions, Related Queries

Get Google Trends data for any search term, or compare up to 5 terms on the same scale. One clean row per term with interest over time, interest by country or region, top and rising related queries and topics, plus a trend summary and breakout detection. Put it on a schedule and it tells you when a trend changes.

• 📊 Interest over time: the full 0–100 series for any preset (past hour to all time since 2004) or your own date range, with average, latest, peak, momentum and a simple rising / falling / stable label
• 🗺️ Interest by region: countries worldwide, or states and regions inside a country
• 🔎 Related queries and topics: top and rising lists, with Breakout (+5000%) items pulled out for you
• 🔔 Trend-change monitor: schedule it daily or weekly and get alerts when momentum moves past your threshold, a new breakout shows up, or the trend direction flips
• ⚡ Two speeds: Standard is cheapest and usually ready in 1–2 minutes. Live returns in seconds for a higher price
• ✅ Reliable: data comes from a licensed Google Trends API, not from scraping the Trends website, so there are no captchas, 429 errors or timed-out runs
• 💸 Fair billing: terms with no data, invalid lines and errors are free

Quick start

{
  "searchTerms": ["web scraping", "standing desk"]
}

Compare terms on the same 0–100 scale (comma-separated, up to 5 per line):

{
  "searchTerms": ["chatgpt, gemini, claude"],
  "region": "US",
  "timeRange": "past_90_days"
}

Fast answer for one term:

{
  "searchTerms": ["iphone 17"],
  "dataMode": "live",
  "includeRegions": false
}

Weekly monitor (schedule this input in Apify):

{
  "searchTerms": ["standing desk", "walking pad"],
  "region": "US",
  "monitor": true,
  "monitorName": "office-products",
  "alertThresholdPct": 25
}

Output

One row per search term (views: Overview, Related queries & topics, Monitor):

Field	Example	Notes
searchTerm	gemini
comparedWith	["chatgpt", "claude"]	Other terms on the same line. Values share one scale
status	ok	ok, no_data, error, skipped. Only ok rows are charged
averageInterest / latestInterest / peakInterest	44.6 / 41 / 100	0–100. The last, still-incomplete period is left out of these
peakDate	2026-04-12
recentAverage / previousAverage / momentumPct	48 / 44 / 8.8	Latest sixth of the range vs the sixth before it
trend	stable	rising (≥ +15%), falling (≤ −15%) or stable
interestOverTime	[{"date":"2026-10-18","dateTo":"2026-10-24","value":41,"partial":false}]	partial: true marks the current, incomplete period
interestByRegion / topRegions	[{"geoId":"US-CA","geoName":"California","value":100}]	Regions with no data are left out
relatedQueriesTop / relatedQueriesRising	[{"query":"claude code","value":4850,"isBreakout":false,"possibleNoise":false}]	Rising values are % growth
relatedTopicsTop / relatedTopicsRising	[{"topicId":"/g/…","title":"Claude Code","type":"Topic","value":119100}]
breakoutQueries / breakoutTopics / hasBreakout	["claude cowork"]	Rising items at +5000% or more, without items flagged as possible noise
googleTrendsUrl		Opens the same chart on Google Trends
monitor	{"alert":true,"alertReasons":["New breakout: …"],…}	Only in monitor mode

The OUTPUT record has the run summary: totals, alerts, charges and anything skipped.

Export to CSV, Excel or JSON, or connect through the API, Make, n8n, Zapier or Google Sheets.

Input options

Option	Default	What it does
searchTerms		One term per line. Put up to 5 comma-separated terms on a line to compare them
dataMode	standard	standard: cheapest, usually 1–2 minutes (can take longer at busy times). live: seconds, higher price
timeRange	past_12_months	past_hour … past_5_years, all_time
startDate / endDate		Custom range (YYYY-MM-DD). Overrides timeRange
region	worldwide	Country or region code or name: US, US-CA, Germany, uk
searchType	web	web, news, youtube, images, shopping
category	all	Google Trends category, by name or number (Shopping, 71)
includeRegions / includeRelated	true / true	Turn off what you don't need
monitor / monitorName / alertThresholdPct	false / default / 30	Trend-change monitor. Use different names for different watchlists

Pricing (pay per event)

Event	Price	When
Run start	$0.005	Once per run, only if at least one term returns data
Term trend, Standard	$0.006 / term	Each term with data
Term trend, Live	$0.02 / term	Each term with data

A term in a comparison counts as one term. Set Max cost per run in the run options. The Actor only fetches what fits in that limit and never charges more. Platform usage is included.

Good to know

• Google Trends values are relative (0–100), scaled to the highest point of the chart. In a comparison all terms share one scale. Values from separate runs or lines can't be compared directly.
• Google samples its data, so numbers can move a little between runs, especially for small terms and short ranges.
• Very small terms often have no data. You get a free no_data row for those.
• Rising lists sometimes contain unrelated, huge spikes that come from Google's own data. The Actor flags them as possibleNoise (unrelated to your term and not in the top list) and leaves them out of breakouts and alerts. They stay in the lists so you can judge for yourself.
• Related queries and topics are per term. For comparisons the Actor fetches them separately for each term.
• In monitor mode the first run saves a baseline. It already alerts on breakouts and big momentum, and later runs also alert on new breakouts and trend flips.

FAQ

Do I need a Google account or API key? No.

Why not scrape trends.google.com? Google rate-limits Trends scraping hard, so scrapers hit 429 errors and time out. This Actor uses a licensed Google Trends data API instead.

Standard or Live? Standard for batches, dashboards and schedules. Live when you need the answer right now.

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