Google Trends Trending Now Scraper (trending searches per country)

Every trending search Google Trends lists for a country, up to 200 countries per run: the trend, its search volume, growth percentage, when it started and (if already over) when it ended, its category and the related queries people typed with it. Windows of 4 hours, 24 hours, 48 hours or 7 days. You only pay for trends that are actually delivered.

Why this scraper

• The full list, not the top 10. Google's public RSS feed stops at 10 trends per country. This actor reads the same data the "Trending now" page reads: in a test on 13-09-2026 that was 227 trends for the Netherlands in 24 hours and 2,633 for the United States in 7 days.
• Filters that save money. Keep only trends that are still rising, set a minimum search volume, or pick categories such as Sports, Technology or Business and Finance. Filtered-out trends are never charged.
• One flat table across countries. Paste 50 country codes and get one dataset with the country and rank on every row, ready to compare what is trending where.
• Built on a lightweight route. One request per country, about 0.3 KB per trend and under a second per country in testing, which is where the low price comes from.
• Still works. The dailytrends endpoint that most libraries and tutorials call has answered 404 since 2025. This actor uses the route behind the current page.

Who this is for

Newsrooms and content teams deciding what to write about today. SEO and social teams catching a topic while it is still rising. Market researchers comparing what countries care about. Anyone who wants a feed of rising search demand without refreshing a page.

Who this is not for

This actor reports what is trending. It does not give interest-over-time curves or year-long comparisons for your own keywords; for that, use the Google Trends Batch Scraper from the same publisher. Search volume is Google's rounded figure (100, 200, 500, 1,000 ... 5,000,000), not an exact count, because that is what Google publishes.

Input example

{
    "countries": ["US", "GB", "NL"],
    "hours": "24",
    "maxTrendsPerCountry": 500,
    "activeOnly": false,
    "minSearchVolume": 0,
    "categories": [],
    "language": "en"
}

Supported categories: 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.

Output example

{
    "country": "NL",
    "hours": 24,
    "rank": 1,
    "title": "fortuna - ajax",
    "searchVolume": 100000,
    "growthPercent": 1000,
    "startedAt": "2026-09-12T17:10:00Z",
    "endedAt": null,
    "isActive": true,
    "categories": ["Sports"],
    "relatedQueries": ["fortuna - ajax", "oscar gloukh", "stand eredivisie", "ajax"],
    "trendsUrl": "https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=fortuna+-+ajax&geo=NL&date=now+7-d",
    "status": "ok"
}

A country that returns nothing produces an error record instead, and is not charged:

{
    "input": "XX",
    "status": "error",
    "errorCode": "NO_RESULTS",
    "error": "No trend data for XX; Google Trends does not list trending searches for this country code"
}

Error codes: INVALID_COUNTRY, INVALID_CATEGORY, NO_RESULTS, BLOCKED. INPUT_TRUNCATED appears once when your input is longer than this actor accepts.

Related actors from steadydata

• google-trends-batch: interest over time for a trend you spotted
• google-news: the articles behind the trend

Pricing

Pay per event: one trend-listed event per delivered trend. No charge for countries that fail, for trends removed by your filters, or as a separate platform-usage surcharge. Use maxTrendsPerCountry as a hard cost ceiling.

FAQ

How many trends will I get? It depends on the country and the window. Large countries produce a few hundred trends in 24 hours and a few thousand in 7 days; small countries fewer. The 4-hour window is the smallest and can be empty on a quiet night, which comes back as a free error record.

What does growthPercent mean? Google's own figure for how much the search volume rose compared with the period before, capped at 1000%. Trends marked 1000% are the ones that came out of nowhere.

Why is endedAt empty on some rows? Those trends are still active: Google has not yet marked them as over. isActive says the same thing as a boolean so you can filter on it.

Which countries work? The countries Google Trends itself offers on its Trending now page, around 50. A code it does not support returns a free NO_RESULTS record naming the code.

Can I run this every hour? Yes; that is what the 4-hour window is for. Combine it with activeOnly to receive only what is rising right now.

Is personal data collected? No. Search trends and their related queries are aggregate public data about what many people search for. Nothing about any individual is collected.

What happens when Google changes something? Internal routes shift from time to time. The actor is monitored daily and fixed fast, and while it is broken you are not charged, because only delivered trends cost anything.