Google Trends Scraper — Reliable, No Start Fee

Get Google Trends data as clean JSON — for people, spreadsheets and AI agents alike:

• 📈 Interest over time (0–100 timeline + average)
• 🗺️ Interest by region — countries, states, cities or US metro areas
• 🔍 Related queries — top and rising (incl. "Breakout" queries)
• 🧩 Related topics — top and rising
• 🔥 Trending Now — what people search for right now, per country, with news links
• ⚖️ Compare up to 5 keywords in one report, exactly like trends.google.com
• 🌍 Many countries in one run — every keyword is fetched for every location

Why this scraper?

Built around Google's rate limits. Google Trends blocks bursts of requests (HTTP 429) — that is why many Trends scrapers fail often. This Actor rotates proxy sessions with fresh cookies, backs off intelligently and automatically escalates to residential proxies when a request keeps getting blocked.

Fair pricing.

• ✅ No Actor start fee
• ✅ You pay only for results that were saved — failed lookups are never charged
• ✅ One result = one complete report (timeline + regions + related queries + related topics), not one row per data point

How to use

1. Enter your search terms, e.g. bitcoin, electric car.
2. Pick countries (US, DE, US-CA …) or leave empty for worldwide.
3. Pick a time range and press Start.

For a live list of trending searches, switch Mode to Trending Now and choose countries — no keywords needed.

Example input

{
    "searchTerms": ["bitcoin", "ethereum"],
    "compareTerms": true,
    "geos": ["US", "DE"],
    "timeRange": "today 12-m"
}

Output

One dataset item per report. Example (shortened):

{
    "searchTerm": "bitcoin",
    "geo": "US",
    "timeRange": "today 12-m",
    "property": "web",
    "trendsUrl": "https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=bitcoin&date=today+12-m&geo=US",
    "averageInterest": 52.79,
    "interestOverTime": [
        { "date": "2026-07-27T00:00:00.000Z", "formattedTime": "Jul 27, 2026", "value": 46 }
    ],
    "interestByRegion": [
        { "geoCode": "US-NV", "geoName": "Nevada", "value": 100 }
    ],
    "relatedQueries": {
        "top": [{ "query": "bitcoin price", "value": 100, "formattedValue": "100" }],
        "rising": [{ "query": "bitcoin etf", "value": 5000, "formattedValue": "Breakout" }]
    },
    "relatedTopics": {
        "top": [{ "title": "Cryptocurrency", "type": "Topic", "mid": "/m/0vpj4_b", "value": 100 }],
        "rising": []
    },
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-27T12:00:00.000Z"
}

When comparing terms, value becomes values ({ "bitcoin": 46, "ethereum": 7 }) and related queries are grouped per term.

Trending Now items look like this:

{
    "type": "trendingNow",
    "geo": "DE",
    "rank": 1,
    "title": "champions league",
    "approxTraffic": "200,000+",
    "approxTrafficNumber": 200000,
    "startedAt": "2026-10-27T18:00:00.000Z",
    "news": [{ "title": "…", "url": "https://…", "source": "…" }]
}

A run summary (results saved, failed lookups and why) is stored in the key-value store under OUTPUT.

Good to know

• Google Trends values are relative (0–100), not absolute search volumes. Values are only comparable within one report — use Compare terms to compare keywords directly.
• Google compares at most 5 terms at once. More terms are split into groups of 5.
• Google does not return related topics for comparisons. For some requests Google also withholds related topics; the item then contains a relatedTopicsNote explaining it.
• Very new or niche keywords may have little or no data — that is Google's answer, not an error.

Use cases

• SEO & content planning — find rising queries before your competitors do
• Market research — compare products, brands and demand across countries
• E-commerce — spot seasonal demand and product trends
• AI agents & automations — feed fresh trend data to n8n, Make, Zapier or your LLM via the Apify API / MCP

Integrations

Use the Apify API, schedules and integrations (Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets, webhooks) to run it automatically, e.g. daily Trending Now for your markets.

Questions or a feature request? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab.