Trending Searches Today (Google Trends, by country)

What people are searching for on Google right now, country by country. Every trending search with the number of searches behind it, how fast it is climbing, when it started, whether it is still rising at this moment, which category Google filed it under, and the cluster of queries breaking out around it.

One job: you open your laptop and want to know what is trending today, in the countries you publish in, in one file.

Why not just open the Trending Now page

Because the page shows you one country at a time, now, on screen. Its CSV button exports whatever country and filter you currently have open, by hand, and by the time you have done that for six countries the top of the list has moved.

This actor takes the countries as a list, runs on a schedule, and puts one row per trend per country into a dataset you can diff against yesterday's. It also keeps the fields the page only hints at: the exact epoch the trend started, the epoch it stopped trending (empty while it is still climbing), how many hours it has been running, and the full breakdown of queries feeding it — the page shows you the first three and a "+10 more".

The paid tools that sell this layer are subscriptions built around a dashboard rather than a feed you can join to your own data — Glimpse, the best known of them, starts at around $50 a month (checked 2026-08-17). This actor charges $0.001 per trend and nothing else but a $0.001 start.

The same job, priced across the store

100 trending searches for one country, one run, at list price:

actor	the same job	notes
primevision/google-trends-radar	$0.040	$0.02 start plus $0.0002 a row — cheaper than us past ~30 rows, dearer below it
this actor	$0.101	$0.001 start plus $0.001 a row
data_xplorer/google-trends-trending-now	$0.120	$0.02 start plus $0.001 a row. 41 users in 30 days, the incumbent here
truefetch/google-trending-now	$0.190	$0.01 start plus $0.0018 a row
dr_ben/google-trending-searches	$0.200	$0.002 a row
easyapi/google-realtime-trends-data-scraper	$0.389	$0.09 start plus $0.00299 a row

Prices read from the public Store API on 2026-08-19. We are not the cheapest at volume and there is no point pretending otherwise: primevision wins past about 30 rows a run. What you get here instead is the still-rising flag, the start and end times, the corrected category labels and several countries in one dataset.

What you get, per trend

field	what it is
rank	position within its country, biggest search volume first
query	the trending search, exactly as Google writes it
normalizedQuery	the same query with diacritics folded to plain ASCII, for joining
geo, geoName	the country the trend belongs to
searchVolume, searchVolumeText	Google's estimate as a lower bound: 200000 and 200K+
volumeGrowthPct	percent growth, capped by Google at 1000
isBreakout	true at that 1000% ceiling, which is Google's own "this exploded" marker
startedAt	when the trend started climbing
endedAt	when it stopped. Empty means it has not stopped
isActive	true while it is still rising
trendingForHours	how long it has been running, in hours
categories, categoryIds	Google's own categories, as words and as ids
relatedQueries	the whole cluster of queries feeding the trend, not just the first three
trendsUrl, newsSearchUrl	the trend on Google Trends, and a news search for it

About search volume

Google publishes trending volume as a lower bound, in buckets: 100, 200, 500, 1000, 2000, 5000, 20000, 200000 and so on. 200K+ means at least two hundred thousand searches, not exactly. Nobody selling this data has the exact number, because Google does not publish it. searchVolume keeps the bucket as a number so you can sort and threshold on it.

About news articles

Google's Trending Now used to ship the news articles behind each trend. It does not any more: the feed carries no article tokens, the RSS version's news elements are empty, and the Trending Now page itself renders no article links at all (all three checked 2026-08-19). So this actor does not claim to return news articles — it gives you newsSearchUrl, an honest link out, and any actor still advertising per-trend articles from this source is worth a second look.

Input

Today's trends in the United States:

{
  "countries": ["US"],
  "hours": "24",
  "maxTrendsPerGeo": 25
}

Six markets at once, only what is still climbing right now:

{
  "countries": ["US", "GB", "FR", "DE", "BR", "IN"],
  "hours": "24",
  "stillRisingOnly": true,
  "maxTrendsPerGeo": 50
}

The week's biggest sports trends in one country:

{
  "countries": ["GB"],
  "hours": "168",
  "category": "17",
  "maxTrendsPerGeo": 200
}

input
countries	two-letter country codes, one or more. One row per trend per country
hours	how recently a trend must have started: 4, 24, 48 hours or 7 days
category	one of Google's 19 categories, or all of them
stillRisingOnly	keep only the trends Google has not marked as finished
maxTrendsPerGeo	the row cap per country, applied after sorting by volume — also your cost ceiling

Use cases

Newsroom and content desks. Run it hourly with hours: "4" and stillRisingOnly, and you have the list of things gaining attention right now, ranked, with the query cluster to write against.

Publishing in several markets. One run, six countries, one dataset. The same story trends at different hours in different countries and the startedAt column is how you see that.

Affiliate and e-commerce. Filter to Shopping or Games and watch what shows up before your competitors' merch does.

Feeding a dashboard. Schedule it daily, append to the same dataset, and isActive plus trendingForHours gives you trend lifetimes over time — which is data nobody publishes, because it only exists if you sampled it.

Questions people ask

Is this real Google Trends data? Yes, from the same endpoint the trends.google.com/trending page calls for itself. Nothing is modelled or estimated by us.

Are the search volumes exact? No, and they cannot be. Google publishes them as lower bounds in buckets and this actor passes them through unchanged.

Which countries work? Any country with a Google Trends trending feed. US and FR were measured directly (478 and 303 trends in a 24 hour window on 2026-08-19); the rest of the country list is the one the Trending Now page's own country picker offers. A code with no feed comes back empty and is named in the run's status message rather than silently dropped.

Why did my run come back with no rows? Either your filters were too narrow — the log tells you exactly how many trends survived each one — or the country you asked for has no feed. If Google itself stops answering, the run fails. It never finishes green with an empty dataset.

Do I need an API key or a proxy? Neither. Platform usage is included in the price.

Can I schedule it? That is the point. Point a daily or hourly schedule at it and diff the datasets.

Related actor

For keyword-level Google Trends work — bulk keyword lists, interest over time, interest by region — see Google Trends Scraper (Bulk Keyword Lists & Trending Now) on the same profile, and for putting two to five keywords on one shared scale with their seasonality, see Keyword Comparison & Seasonality. This actor is the narrow one: what is trending right now, by country, meant to be re-run.

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