Google Trends Gap Finder: rising abroad, not yet in your market
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from $100.00 / 1,000 trend alerts
Google Trends Gap Finder: rising abroad, not yet in your market
Under maintenanceGoogle Trends scraper for product research: finds trending products whose searches are taking off in the US, UK, South Korea or any country, but not yet in yours. Brand vs generic, growth, weekly curves. For ecommerce, importers and dropshipping.
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Most trending products take off in one country months before they reach the next one. Trend Gap finds that gap. It scans Google Trends in the countries where trends usually start, such as the United States, the United Kingdom and South Korea. Then it lists the products whose searches are taking off there but have not yet started in your country.
It is built for importers, online shops, dropshippers and product scouts who want to stock something before everyone else does.
How it works
- Discover. For each origin country and product category, it takes what Google Trends shows as rising most over the last 90 days. It keeps only things that look like products: people, TV shows, events, dishes, stores and apps are filtered out.
- Check. For each candidate, it compares five years of weekly searches in the origin countries and in your country, on the same scale. A product is reported only if all of the following hold in at least one origin country:
- searches today are at least 1.5× what they were 6–12 months ago;
- searches are still close to their peak, not falling;
- it is not a seasonal peak that also happened last year;
- there is enough search volume to trust the curve.
- Compare with your country. It is dropped if your country already searches for it at half the origin's level or more, or has been rising for two months.
Output
One row per product, with:
- Product: the name, and whether it is a brand (buy from the distributor) or generic (any supplier can make it).
- Where it is rising: the countries, since when, and how much it has grown versus last year.
- Your country: how it is doing there (no searches yet, low interest or starting to rise), and the destination-to-origin ratio.
- Charts: the weekly curves for the last 52 weeks, and a Google Trends link to see it yourself.
Input
| Field | Default | |
|---|---|---|
| Origin countries | US, GB, KR | 1 to 4 two-letter codes |
| Destination country | ES | your market |
| Categories | Shopping, Beauty & Fitness, Food & Drink, Home & Garden, Toys, Apparel | Google Trends category IDs |
| Max products to check | 25 | each one is billed |
| Proxy | Apify residential | Google Trends blocks repeated requests |
Weekly monitoring
Trends move week by week, so the Actor works best on a schedule:
- Save your input as a task (countries and categories).
- Schedule it, for example every Monday.
- Turn on Only new products.
Each week you then get only the products not reported before for that pair of countries. Products you have already seen are not billed again as alerts. Every row also carries firstReported, the date it was first reported to you.
Pricing
You pay per event: a small amount for each product whose curves are checked, and more for each product reported. A run that finds nothing costs only the checks.
Limits, honestly
- Google Trends shows relative interest, not sales.
- Some products that go viral never arrive in a given country.
- In a backtest on 19 viral products (Labubu, Stanley cup, Dubai chocolate and others), the rule warned in time in most cases, but not all. A small search volume or a slow, steady rise can stay below the threshold.
- Google Trends is not an official API, so runs can fail when Google changes something.
