# Google Trends Scraper: Bulk Keywords & Regions (`steady_scrape/google-trends-scraper`) Actor

Google Trends API for many keywords: interest over time, by country or region, top & rising related queries. Any timeframe. No start fee, $2 per 1,000 keywords.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/steady_scrape/google-trends-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Youssef Benzidiya](https://apify.com/steady_scrape) (community)
- **Categories:** SEO tools, Marketing, E-commerce
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

$2.00 / 1,000 keyword results

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

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# README

## Google Trends Scraper: bulk keywords, regions and related queries

Get Google Trends data for one keyword or hundreds in a single run: **interest over time**, **interest by country, state or region**, and **related queries (top and rising)**. Works for any country, any timeframe, and Web, YouTube, News, Image or Google Shopping search.

**Price: $2 per 1,000 keywords** ($0.002 per keyword). No start fee. Keywords that fail are free.

### What does Google Trends Scraper do?

It does what you would do by hand on trends.google.com, for a whole list of keywords at once, and returns clean JSON or a spreadsheet. Google rate-limits Trends heavily, so each keyword gets its own IP session and is retried automatically on a fresh IP. You get results instead of failed runs.

### Use cases

- **SEO and content planning:** find rising queries before competitors do and pick topics with growing interest.
- **E-commerce and product research:** check seasonality and demand by region before stocking a product.
- **Market research and investing:** track brand, product or category interest over time.
- **Dashboards and reporting:** schedule weekly runs and send results to Google Sheets, BigQuery or a webhook.
- **AI agents:** call it through the Apify API or MCP server and get compact JSON per keyword.

### How to use it

1. Click **Try for free** (Apify's free plan includes monthly credit, enough for over a thousand keywords).
2. Add your **keywords**, optionally a **country code** (`US`, `GB`, `IN`, `US-CA`) and a **timeframe**.
3. Click **Start**. A few keywords finish in under a minute. 60 keywords take about 3 minutes.
4. Export to Excel, CSV or JSON, or read the dataset via the API.

### Input example

```json
{
  "keywords": ["matcha", "protein powder", "creatine"],
  "geo": "US",
  "timeframe": "today 12-m",
  "searchProperty": "",
  "interestOverTime": true,
  "interestByRegion": true,
  "relatedQueries": true
}
```

| Option | Example | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Keywords | `["matcha", "protein powder"]` | One result per keyword |
| Country / region code | `US`, `GB`, `IN`, `US-CA` | Empty = worldwide |
| Timeframe | `today 12-m` | Also `now 1-H`, `now 7-d`, `today 1-m`, `today 3-m`, `today 5-y`, `all`, or `2025-01-01 2025-06-30` |
| Search type | Web, YouTube, News, Images, Shopping | Default: Web |
| Category ID | `0` | Google Trends category, 0 = all |
| Interest over time / by region / related queries | `true` | Turn off what you don't need for faster runs |

### Output example

One item per keyword (shortened):

```json
{
  "keyword": "chatgpt",
  "geo": "WORLDWIDE",
  "timeframe": "today 12-m",
  "interestOverTime": [
    {"date": "2025-10-05", "label": "Oct 5 – 11, 2025", "value": 98, "isPartial": false},
    {"date": "2025-10-12", "label": "Oct 12 – 18, 2025", "value": 95, "isPartial": false}
  ],
  "interestByRegion": [
    {"geoCode": "RW", "geoName": "Rwanda", "value": 100},
    {"geoCode": "LK", "geoName": "Sri Lanka", "value": 78}
  ],
  "relatedQueries": {
    "top": [{"query": "ai chatgpt", "value": 100, "formattedValue": "100", "link": "https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=ai+chatgpt&date=today+12-m"}],
    "rising": [{"query": "chatgpt codex", "value": 1050, "formattedValue": "+1,050%", "link": "https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=chatgpt+codex&date=today+12-m"}]
  },
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-10T15:38:11+00:00"
}
```

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `interestOverTime` | Time series of search interest (0-100) with dates and a partial-period flag |
| `interestByRegion` | Interest by country, or by state/region when you set a country |
| `relatedQueries.top` | Most popular related searches with their relative score |
| `relatedQueries.rising` | Fastest-growing related searches (e.g. `+350%`, `Breakout`) |

### Pricing (plain terms)

You are charged **$0.002 for each keyword that returns data**, and nothing else:

| Keywords | Cost |
|---|---|
| 10 | $0.02 |
| 1,000 | $2.00 |
| 10,000 | $20.00 |

There is no start fee and no extra charge for compute or proxies. If Google blocks a keyword after all retries, you are not charged for it. You can also set a maximum cost per run in the run options.

### FAQ

**Is there an official Google Trends API?** Google offers only a limited alpha API. This actor gives you the same data you see on trends.google.com, in bulk, without an API key.

**Why are values between 0 and 100?** That is how Google Trends reports interest: 100 is the peak for that keyword, region and timeframe. Values are relative, not search volumes.

**Can I compare keywords on one scale?** Each keyword is fetched on its own scale. Use the same timeframe and region for all keywords and compare shapes and peaks.

**Can I get daily data?** Yes: use a timeframe of up to 9 months (e.g. `today 3-m` or a date range). Longer ranges return weekly or monthly points, as on Google Trends.

**Does it return related topics or "Trending now"?** No. Related topics are returned empty by Google for automated sessions, and daily "Trending now" lists are a different product.

### Limits

- One result per keyword; comparison of up to 5 keywords on one chart is not supported.
- Very rare keywords can have too little search volume for Google Trends; they return empty series and still count as one result.
- Google may slow down very large runs; the actor retries automatically on fresh IPs.

### API example

```bash
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/steady_scrape~google-trends-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"keywords": ["bitcoin", "ethereum"], "geo": "US", "timeframe": "today 3-m"}'
```

Questions or a missing feature? Open an issue in the **Issues** tab and it will usually be handled within a day.

This actor reads publicly available Google Trends data. It does not log in to any account or collect personal data.

# Actor input Schema

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Search terms to look up. Each keyword is fetched separately and returns one result ($0.002 per keyword, so 100 keywords = $0.20).

## `geo` (type: `string`):

ISO code like US, GB, IN, FR, or US-CA for a state. Leave empty for worldwide.

## `timeframe` (type: `string`):

Google Trends time range, e.g. 'now 1-H', 'now 7-d', 'today 1-m', 'today 3-m', 'today 12-m', 'today 5-y', 'all', or 'YYYY-MM-DD YYYY-MM-DD'.

## `searchProperty` (type: `string`):

Which Google search to measure.

## `category` (type: `integer`):

Google Trends category ID (0 = all categories).

## `language` (type: `string`):

Language for topic names and region names, e.g. en-US, fr, de.

## `interestOverTime` (type: `boolean`):

Include the time series.

## `interestByRegion` (type: `boolean`):

Include interest by country or sub-region.

## `relatedQueries` (type: `boolean`):

Include top and rising related queries.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

How many keywords to fetch at once.

## `maxRetries` (type: `integer`):

Retries on a fresh proxy IP when Google rate-limits.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Proxy settings. Google rate-limits Trends heavily; Apify proxy is recommended.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": [
    "bitcoin",
    "chatgpt"
  ],
  "geo": "US",
  "timeframe": "today 12-m",
  "searchProperty": "",
  "category": 0,
  "language": "en-US",
  "interestOverTime": true,
  "interestByRegion": true,
  "relatedQueries": true,
  "maxConcurrency": 5,
  "maxRetries": 8,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 = {
    "keywords": [
        "bitcoin",
        "chatgpt"
    ],
    "geo": "US",
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("steady_scrape/google-trends-scraper").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 = {
    "keywords": [
        "bitcoin",
        "chatgpt",
    ],
    "geo": "US",
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("steady_scrape/google-trends-scraper").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 '{
  "keywords": [
    "bitcoin",
    "chatgpt"
  ],
  "geo": "US",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call steady_scrape/google-trends-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/tVHIIOWaIkg5AC2vU/builds/ibr9sgz6aSx56EykR/openapi.json