# Google Trends: Daily Trending Searches (`tindacloud/google-trends-daily`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/tindacloud/google-trends-daily.md
- **Developed by:** [Seungki Min](https://apify.com/tindacloud) (community)
- **Categories:** SEO tools, News, Marketing
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $0.80 / 1,000 trends

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Google Trends: Daily Trending Searches

What people are searching for **right now**, country by country — with the approximate volume and the news stories behind each trend.

### What you can do with it

- **Newsroom and content planning** — catch a topic while it is still climbing.
- **Cross-market comparison** — run US, GB, KR, JP and DE in one go and see what travels.
- **Trend alerts** — `onlyNewTrends` on an hourly schedule returns only what just appeared.
- **SEO** — a daily feed of rising queries with the articles already ranking for them.

### Input

| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| `countries` | Two-letter codes: US, GB, KR, JP, DE, IN, BR… |
| `maxTrendsPerCountry` | Google publishes roughly 20-50 per country per day |
| `includeNews` | The news articles shown next to each trend |
| `minTraffic` | Only trends above an approximate search volume |
| `keywords` | Only trends containing certain words |
| `onlyNewTrends` | Monitoring mode |

### Output

```json
{
  "country": "US",
  "rank": 2,
  "query": "movie",
  "approxTraffic": 500,
  "approxTrafficText": "500+",
  "startedAt": "2026-09-21T06:20:00.000Z",
  "pictureUrl": "https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSpPHzcll8EtBsxDdecLEz9Hav25g_bONVPDdDNLxGAHg7mQPMncImdw795eeg",
  "pictureSource": "Variety",
  "newsCount": 3,
  "topNewsTitle": "Box Office: ‘Resident Evil’ Breaks Franchise Records With $60 Million Opening Weekend",
  "topNewsUrl": "https://variety.com/2026/film/box-office/resident-evil-box-office-zach-cregger-reboot-opening-weekend-record-breaking-1236867659/",
  "topNewsSource": "Variety",
  "searchUrl": "https://www.google.com/search?q=movie",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-21T07:31:47.164Z"
}
```

### Speed and cost

40 trends across 4 countries took **4 seconds**.

### Notes

- `approxTraffic` is Google's own rounded figure ("200+", "10K+"), parsed into a number. Typical values range from 100 to a few hundred thousand.
- This covers **daily trending searches**. Interest-over-time for an arbitrary keyword is a different Google Trends endpoint that is not publicly reachable.

### Related Actors

- [Google News Scraper](https://apify.com/tindacloud/google-news-scraper) — the full articles behind a trend
- [Google Ads Transparency Scraper](https://apify.com/tindacloud/google-ads-transparency) — who is advertising on a topic
- [Website to Markdown for AI & RAG](https://apify.com/tindacloud/website-to-markdown) — turn the articles into clean text

# Actor input Schema

## `countries` (type: `array`):

Two-letter country codes — US, GB, KR, JP, DE, IN, BR. One run can cover many markets.

## `maxTrendsPerCountry` (type: `integer`):

Google publishes about 20-50 trending searches per country per day.

## `includeNews` (type: `boolean`):

Adds the news articles Google shows next to each trend.

## `minTraffic` (type: `integer`):

Only trends above this approximate search volume, e.g. 20000.

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

Keep only trends whose query contains one of these words.

## `onlyNewTrends` (type: `boolean`):

Monitoring mode. Returns only searches that were not in the previous run — run it hourly to catch things as they start trending.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Total limit across all countries.

## `proxy` (type: `object`):

Apify Proxy is used as a fallback if a direct request is refused.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "countries": [
    "US",
    "GB",
    "KR"
  ],
  "maxTrendsPerCountry": 50,
  "includeNews": true,
  "onlyNewTrends": false,
  "maxResults": 1000,
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

All results in a table view.

# 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 = {
    "countries": [
        "US",
        "GB",
        "KR"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("tindacloud/google-trends-daily").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 = { "countries": [
        "US",
        "GB",
        "KR",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("tindacloud/google-trends-daily").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 '{
  "countries": [
    "US",
    "GB",
    "KR"
  ]
}' |
apify call tindacloud/google-trends-daily --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/qIvNYZPXwUrOsyFTO/builds/gfGc8OrRfDFwB74m2/openapi.json