🔥 Google Trending Now & Realtime Trends Scraper

Discover what the world is searching for right now—in seconds. Extract live Google Trending Searches, breaking news surges, estimated search volumes (500,000+), breakout growth percentages (+1,000%), related search variations, topic categories, and verified news articles across 100+ countries over the past 4 hours, 24 hours, 48 hours, or 7 days.

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⚡ UnitBytes · Search Trends & Market Demand Intelligence Suite
🔥 Google Trending Now 📍 You are here Realtime viral searches, volumes, growth % & breaking news		🎥 YouTube Trends Scraper Video Creators & SEO Breakout YouTube search queries, video topics & viewer regions		🛍️ Google Shopping Trends E-Commerce & Product Research Breakout physical products, seasonal buyer demand & regions
📈 Google Trends All-in-One Scraper Marketers & Spreadsheets 20-year timelines, DMA heatmaps, bulk 100 keywords & Excel/CSV			⚡ Google Trends Fast API Developers & AI Agents (MCP) Sub-second REST API & unnested flat JSON for LLM pipelines

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✨ Why Use Google Trending Now Scraper?

1. 🔥 Zero Seed Keywords Required (True Viral Discovery)

Unlike standard keyword research tools where you must already know what term to search for, Google Trending Now reveals the exact topics surging across a country in real time—complete with:

• Primary Trending Term (keyword): The breakout topic or event.
• Estimated Search Volume (volume): Real search volume scale (e.g., 1,000,000+, 200,000+, 50,000+).
• Surge Velocity (volume_growth_pct): Percentage growth over baseline (e.g., 1000 for +1,000% breakout spikes).
• Related Search Variations (trend_keywords): Every long-tail query people are typing around the event.
• Topic Categories (topic_names): Classified categories (e.g., Technology, Business and Finance, Sports, Entertainment).
• Context News Articles (news): Headlines, publishers, timestamps, and direct article URLs explaining why the topic is trending.

2. ⏱️ 4 Flexible Real-Time Lookback Windows

Monitor trends at the exact speed your workflow demands:

• ⚡ Past 4 Hours (4h): Catch breaking news, flash market events, and viral social moments minutes after they start.
• 🔥 Past 24 Hours (24h - Default): The complete daily trending digest for newsletters, content calendars, and morning briefings.
• 📈 Past 48 Hours (48h): Filter out fleeting 1-hour noise and focus on sustained 2-day momentum.
• 🗓️ Past 7 Days (7d): Weekly macro stories and top cultural moments.

3. 📊 Clean Flat Table for 1-Click Excel, CSV & AI Agents

Outputs one clean row per trending topic by default (output_format: "flat"). Export directly to Excel, CSV, Google Sheets, Pandas, or BigQuery, or connect directly to Claude & Cursor via Apify MCP.

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🧪 Ready-to-Run Input Examples

1. 🇺🇸 US Breaking Spikes (Past 4 Hours)

{
  "common_geo": "US",
  "time_window": "4h",
  "trending_language": "en",
  "max_events": 50
}

2. 🇬🇧 UK Daily Trending Searches (Past 24 Hours)

{
  "common_geo": "GB",
  "time_window": "24h",
  "trending_language": "en",
  "max_events": 100
}

3. 🇩🇪 Germany Weekly Top Trends (Past 7 Days in German)

{
  "common_geo": "DE",
  "time_window": "7d",
  "trending_language": "de",
  "max_events": 100
}

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📤 Sample Output Record (output_format: "flat")

[
  {
    "scrape_type": "trending_now",
    "event_index": 1,
    "error": false,
    "keyword": "champions league draw",
    "geo": "US",
    "volume": 500000,
    "volume_growth_pct": 1000,
    "topic_names": ["Sports"],
    "trend_keywords": [
      "champions league draw",
      "ucl draw",
      "champions league fixtures"
    ],
    "started_timestamp": "2026-10-24T06:00:00+00:00",
    "news": [
      {
        "title": "Champions League draw: Full fixtures and key matchups revealed",
        "source": "BBC Sport",
        "url": "https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/...",
        "time": 1761285600
      }
    ]
  }
]

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💼 Top Use Cases

1. 📰 Automated Newsletters & Morning Briefings: Schedule an hourly or daily run to pull the top 25 trending stories in your target country with verified news links and feed them directly into an LLM summarizer.
2. 📱 Viral Social Media & YouTube Shorts Production: Spot +1,000% surging topics in the 4h window before competing creators publish videos or posts.
3. 📈 PR, Brand & Crisis Monitoring: Track real-time public search spikes across countries and regions with full context on which news outlets are driving the surge.
4. 🤖 Real-Time World Context for AI Agents (MCP): Give Claude, Cursor, or custom AI agents live awareness of what is happening in the world today.

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⚙️ Input Parameters Reference

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
common_geo	string	"US"	2-letter ISO country code (US, GB, DE, FR, CA, IN, BR, JP, etc.) or full country name (Germany, United Kingdom)
custom_geo_code	string	""	Optional sub-region code (e.g. US-CA, US-NY, GB-ENG)
time_window	string	"24h"	Preset lookback window: "4h", "24h", "48h", or "7d"
trending_hours	integer	24	Custom hours back (1 to 191). Also accepts API shorthand hours
trending_language	string	"en"	Language code for topic names and news headlines (en, es, de, fr, ja, etc.). Also accepts language or hl
max_events	integer	200	Maximum number of trending topics to return (1 to 10,000). Also accepts maxItems, maxResults, or limit
trends_urls	array[string]	[]	Optional https://trends.google.com/trending?... URLs to parse automatically
output_format	string	"flat"	"flat" (1 row per topic for Excel/CSV/APIs) or "legacy" (single nested JSON object)

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💎 Pay-Per-Event Pricing (Zero Start Penalty)

Apify Plan Tier	Price per Trending Topic	Cost for 50 Trending Topics	Run Start Fee
Free	$0.00045	~$0.022 (2.2¢)	$0.00 ($0.00005)
Starter	$0.00040	~$0.020 (2.0¢)	$0.00 ($0.00005)
Scale	$0.00035	~$0.017 (1.7¢)	$0.00 ($0.00005)
Enterprise	$0.00030	~$0.015 (1.5¢)	$0.00 ($0.00005)

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📞 Support & Feedback

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• 💬 Creator Profile: unitbytes on Apify

⚖️ Compliance & Privacy

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google LLC or Alphabet Inc. It retrieves only publicly available, aggregate search statistics published by Google Trends and does not collect or process any personal data. Read Apify's guide on the legality of web scraping.