Google Trends Daily Tracker — Multi-Geo Trends API

Pull daily trending Google searches across US, GB, DE, RU, KZ, JP, BR, IN and 50+ markets with related news context — in one Apify run. Pay-per-event pricing, 95%+ success rate, no Playwright, no proxy gymnastics. Built on Google's public RSS feed.

What it does

For each country code in your geos input, the actor fetches the day's top trending search queries plus the news articles Google associates with each trend (title, URL, publication source, snippet, picture). Results are pushed as structured records ready for analytics dashboards, CRM enrichment, content-planning workflows, or AI-agent ingestion.

Why this actor vs alternatives

Feature	Apify rivals (rental, $30/mo)	Google Trends Daily Tracker
Pricing	rental subscription	pay-per-result, $0.001 per trend
Success rate	79%	95%+ (RSS endpoint, no JS render)
Geos per run	1	unlimited list
News context	partial	full structured newsItems[]
AI agent / MCP-native	no (rental)	yes (PPE)
Setup latency	minutes (Playwright cold-start)	seconds (RSS fetch)

Input

{
  "geos": ["US", "GB", "DE", "RU"],
  "language": "en-US",
  "maxItems": 100,
  "includeNewsItems": true
}

Field	Type	Default	Notes
geos	string[]	["US"]	ISO country codes; pass several for cross-market scans
language	string	en-US	BCP-47 locale tag
maxItems	int	100	Hard cap across all geos (1–1000)
includeNewsItems	bool	true	Attach related news per trend

Output

{
  "query": "champions league final",
  "geo": "GB",
  "language": "en-GB",
  "approxTraffic": "500K+",
  "pubDate": "Mon, 5 May 2026 14:30 GMT",
  "newsItems": [
    {
      "title": "Champions League Final Live: Real Madrid vs Borussia Dortmund",
      "snippet": "Goals, lineups and live commentary from Wembley...",
      "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/...",
      "source": "BBC Sport",
      "pictureUrl": "https://t1.gstatic.com/..."
    }
  ],
  "newsItemCount": 5,
  "trendUrl": "https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=champions+league+final&geo=GB"
}

Use cases

• Content marketing teams — daily trend digest for newsroom briefs, blog ideation, social posting calendars
• SEO agencies — pair with tugelbay/keyword-rank-tracker to spot rising queries before they hit search-volume tools
• Investor / market intel — track what consumers are searching across markets in real time
• AI agents — give your assistant a "what's hot today" tool via PPE-billable Apify integration
• Cross-border arbitrage — see what's trending in market A that hasn't yet hit market B

Programmatic usage

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("tugelbay/google-trends-tracker").call(run_input={
    "geos": ["US", "GB", "JP"],
    "maxItems": 50,
})
for trend in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(trend["query"], "—", trend["approxTraffic"])

JavaScript

import { ApifyClient } from "apify-client";

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: "YOUR_TOKEN" });
const { defaultDatasetId } = await client
  .actor("tugelbay/google-trends-tracker")
  .call({
    geos: ["US", "GB"],
    maxItems: 50,
  });
const { items } = await client.dataset(defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

LangChain tool

from langchain_core.tools import tool
from apify_client import ApifyClient

@tool
def whats_trending_now(country: str = "US") -> list[dict]:
    """Return today's top Google searches in {country}."""
    client = ApifyClient("YOUR_TOKEN")
    run = client.actor("tugelbay/google-trends-tracker").call(run_input={
        "geos": [country], "maxItems": 20,
    })
    return list(client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items())

Pricing (PPE)

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.005
Daily-trend record	$0.001
News-item child	$0.0005 (when includeNewsItems=true)

A typical 50-trend run with news: ~$0.005 + 50×$0.001 + 250×$0.0005 ≈ $0.18 per run.

Cost vs alternatives

• Pulling 100 trends/day × 30 days from rental rivals: $30/mo flat
• Pulling the same here: 30 × ~$0.30 = $9/mo (70% saving) and you only pay for runs you actually use

FAQ

Q: How fresh are the trends? A: Google's RSS feed is updated hourly; this actor returns whatever Google has staged for the requested geo at fetch time.

Q: Do I need an Apify proxy? A: No. RSS endpoint is public.

Q: Can I run this on a schedule? A: Yes — use Apify Schedules to run hourly/daily and pipe results into your dataset of choice.

Q: Why is my geo returning empty? A: Some smaller markets have sparse trending data. Try a major market (US, GB, DE, FR, JP) to verify the actor is functioning, then narrow to your target.

Q: How does it differ from keyword-rank-tracker? A: This finds what's trending; keyword-rank-tracker measures where you rank on a known keyword. Use both together — trends → rank check → optimize.

Limitations

• Google's RSS feed exposes only the top ~20 daily trends per geo — not the full long-tail trending list (that requires the Web UI behind their bot wall).
• Locale string must match Google's accepted set (e.g. en-US, not en_US).
• News-item arrays vary in length; some trends have 0 news items.

Changelog

• 0.1.0 (2026-05-05): Initial release — multi-geo, news-item enrichment, PPE pricing.