Daily Trend Intelligence

Automatically fetch today's top trending topics from Google Trends, enriched with quality-filtered news, ready-to-use content ideas, SEO keywords, and posting recommendations — all in a single API call. No paid APIs or API keys needed.

Disclaimer: This is an unofficial tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google. It uses publicly available Google Trends and Google News RSS feeds.

What is Daily Trend Intelligence?

Daily Trend Intelligence is an Apify Actor that monitors Google Trends across 48 countries and delivers structured, actionable intelligence for content creators, marketers, and SEO professionals.

Every time you run it, the Actor:

1. Fetches live trending topics from Google Trends for your chosen country
2. Finds related news articles from Google News — filtered by quality, freshness, and source authority
3. Generates ready-to-use content ideas — blog titles, video titles, social media captions, and best posting time
4. Produces SEO keywords and hashtags — 10 intent-based keyword variants per trend with difficulty estimation
5. Outputs structured JSON to the Apify Dataset — ready for download, export, or API integration

All data comes from free, public Google RSS feeds. No API keys or external accounts are required.

What can Daily Trend Intelligence data be used for?

Daily Trend Intelligence extracts trending topic data and enriches it with news, content ideas, and SEO keywords. All data can be exported into JSON, CSV, HTML, and Excel formats.

Here are some examples of how you can use it:

• Content creators — Get 3 blog titles, 2 video titles, and 2 social captions per trend every day. Never run out of content ideas.
• SEO professionals — Find trending keywords with built-in difficulty estimation before competition catches up.
• Social media managers — Know when to post and what audience to target, with urgency-based recommendations.
• Journalists and researchers — Get a curated snapshot of the day's top topics with quality-filtered news from 200+ verified sources.
• Marketing teams — Monitor what your audience is searching for across 48 countries in real time.
• Automation pipelines — Schedule daily runs and export to Google Sheets, Airtable, Zapier, Make, or any webhook endpoint.

How much does Daily Trend Intelligence cost?

Daily Trend Intelligence is free to use, but you do pay for Apify platform usage. The Actor uses only free public data sources (Google RSS feeds), so costs are minimal.

Configuration	Memory	Duration	Estimated cost per run
5 trends with news + content ideas	128 MB	~30–45 seconds	~$0.001
10 trends with news + content ideas	256 MB	~60–90 seconds	~$0.005
20 trends with news + content ideas	256 MB	~2–3 minutes	~$0.010

Daily scheduled runs at 10 trends cost approximately $0.15/month. With Apify's free plan, you get $5 in monthly platform credits, which is enough for hundreds of runs.

For more details, see Apify pricing.

How to use Daily Trend Intelligence

1. Create a free Apify account using your email
2. Open Daily Trend Intelligence
3. Select your country from the dropdown (48 countries available)
4. Set how many trends you want to analyze (1–20)
5. Choose whether to include news articles and content ideas
6. Click "Start" and wait for results (typically 30–90 seconds)
7. Download your data in JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML from the Dataset tab

Input configuration

On input, the Daily Trend Intelligence Actor accepts the following configuration settings. These can be entered either manually in the user interface in Apify Console, or programmatically in a JSON object using the Apify API.

Field	Type	Default	Description
country	Enum (string)	US	Country to fetch trends for. 48 countries supported across Americas, Europe, Asia/Pacific, and Middle East/Africa.
maxTrends	Integer	10	Number of trends to analyze per run. Minimum: 1, Maximum: 20.
includeNews	Boolean	true	Fetch quality-filtered related news articles for each trend. Up to 3 articles per trend.
includeContentIdeas	Boolean	true	Generate blog titles, video titles, social captions, best posting time, and target audience for each trend.
language	Enum (string)	en	Language for news article fetching. 12 supported: en, hi, es, fr, de, pt, it, nl, ja, ko, ar, th.

Example input

{
    "country": "US",
    "maxTrends": 10,
    "includeNews": true,
    "includeContentIdeas": true,
    "language": "en"
}

Supported countries

The Actor supports 48 countries across 4 regions:

Region	Countries
Americas (7)	🇺🇸 US · 🇨🇦 Canada · 🇧🇷 Brazil · 🇲🇽 Mexico · 🇦🇷 Argentina · 🇨🇴 Colombia · 🇨🇱 Chile
Europe (19)	🇬🇧 UK · 🇩🇪 Germany · 🇫🇷 France · 🇮🇹 Italy · 🇪🇸 Spain · 🇳🇱 Netherlands · 🇵🇱 Poland · 🇸🇪 Sweden · 🇳🇴 Norway · 🇩🇰 Denmark · 🇫🇮 Finland · 🇧🇪 Belgium · 🇦🇹 Austria · 🇨🇭 Switzerland · 🇮🇪 Ireland · 🇵🇹 Portugal · 🇷🇴 Romania · 🇬🇷 Greece · 🇨🇿 Czech Republic
Asia / Pacific (14)	🇮🇳 India · 🇯🇵 Japan · 🇦🇺 Australia · 🇳🇿 New Zealand · 🇸🇬 Singapore · 🇲🇾 Malaysia · 🇵🇭 Philippines · 🇮🇩 Indonesia · 🇹🇭 Thailand · 🇰🇷 South Korea · 🇹🇼 Taiwan · 🇵🇰 Pakistan · 🇧🇩 Bangladesh · 🇻🇳 Vietnam
Middle East / Africa (8)	🇿🇦 South Africa · 🇳🇬 Nigeria · 🇪🇬 Egypt · 🇦🇪 UAE · 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · 🇮🇱 Israel · 🇹🇷 Turkey · 🇰🇪 Kenya

Results

All results are stored in the default dataset associated with the Actor run, and can be downloaded in JSON, CSV, XML, Excel, or HTML formats.

For each trending topic, the Actor pushes one record into the dataset. Here is an example of a single output record:

{
  "rank": 1,
  "keyword": "andrey rublev",
  "search_volume": "~200+ (est.)",
  "approx_traffic": 200,
  "trend_velocity": "📊 Steady",
  "trend_change": "~New Entry",
  "related_news": [
    {
      "title": "Hot Shot: Alcaraz's pick-up perfection has Rublev rattled in Doha 2026",
      "source": "ATP Tour",
      "reliability": "⭐ High",
      "published": "33 minutes ago",
      "published_iso": "2026-02-20T17:24:05+00:00",
      "url": "https://news.google.com/...",
      "snippet": "Hot Shot: Alcaraz's pick-up perfection..."
    }
  ],
  "content_ideas": {
    "blog_titles": [
      "Everything You Need to Know About Andrey Rublev in 2026",
      "Why Everyone Is Searching for Andrey Rublev Right Now",
      "Breaking Down Andrey Rublev: Facts, Myths, and What's Next"
    ],
    "video_titles": [
      "Andrey Rublev — Everything Explained in 5 Minutes",
      "Andrey Rublev Explained Simply (Even Your Parents Will Get It)"
    ],
    "social_captions": [
      "Everyone is talking about Andrey Rublev. Here's why 🧵",
      "Andrey Rublev just happened and people are losing it 😳"
    ],
    "best_time_to_post": "🔴 Post NOW — live event is happening right now!",
    "target_audience": "General audience, curious readers, social media users",
    "content_urgency": "🔴 HIGH — Live event! Publish immediately!"
  },
  "seo_keywords": {
    "keywords": [
      "andrey rublev",
      "andrey rublev news",
      "andrey rublev today",
      "what is andrey rublev",
      "andrey rublev explained",
      "andrey rublev meaning",
      "why is andrey rublev trending",
      "andrey rublev latest news",
      "everything about andrey rublev",
      "andrey rublev 2026"
    ],
    "hashtags": ["#AndreyRublev", "#AndreyRublev2026", "#trendingAndreyRublev", "#viralAndreyRublev"]
  },
  "meta": {
    "run_at": "2026-02-20T17:57:45.421490+00:00",
    "country": "IN",
    "language": "en",
    "max_trends_requested": 2,
    "data_sources": ["Google Trends Daily RSS", "Google News RSS"],
    "actor_version": "1.0.0"
  }
}

To download the results, call the Get dataset items API endpoint:

https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/[DATASET_ID]/items?format=json

where [DATASET_ID] is the ID of the Actor's run dataset, which you can find in the Run object returned when starting the Actor. Alternatively, you'll find the download links for the results in Apify Console.

Output field reference

Field	Type	Description
rank	integer	Position in today's trending list (1 = most popular)
keyword	string	The trending search term
search_volume	string	Human-readable traffic estimate (e.g., ~500K (est.))
approx_traffic	integer	Raw integer traffic estimate for programmatic use
trend_velocity	string	🚀 Breakout · 🔥 Surging · 📈 Rising · 📊 Steady
trend_change	string	Percentage change (e.g., +500%) or ~New Entry
related_news	array	Up to 3 quality-filtered news articles with source reliability scoring
content_ideas	object	Blog titles, video titles, social captions, posting time, urgency, and audience
seo_keywords	object	10 SEO keyword variants and 4 hashtag suggestions
meta	object	Run metadata including timestamp, country, language, and data notes

Trend velocity scale

Label	Meaning	Traffic threshold
🚀 Breakout	Explosive growth — act immediately	500K+ searches
🔥 Surging	Fast acceleration — post today	100K–499K searches
📈 Rising	Growing steadily — post within 24h	10K–99K searches
📊 Steady	Consistent interest — evergreen potential	< 10K searches

News source reliability

The Actor scores 200+ news sources across two reliability tiers:

Tier	Description	Examples
⭐ High	Major international outlets	BBC, Reuters, AP News, CNN, Bloomberg, NYT, The Guardian, ESPN, Forbes
✓ Medium	Established regional and niche sources	Yahoo News, TMZ, Daily Mail, Seeking Alpha, Polygon, CNET
? Unverified	Sources not in the curated list	May still be legitimate — just not yet verified

Using Daily Trend Intelligence with the Apify API

The Apify API gives you programmatic access to the Apify platform. The API is organized around RESTful HTTP endpoints that enable you to manage, schedule, and run Apify Actors. The API also lets you access any datasets, monitor Actor performance, fetch results, create and update versions, and more.

To access the API using Node.js, use the apify-client NPM package. To access the API using Python, use the apify-client PyPI package.

Check out the API tab for code examples, or see the Apify API reference docs for full details.

Start a run via API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/vasram~daily-trend-intelligence/runs" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -d '{
    "country": "US",
    "maxTrends": 10,
    "includeNews": true,
    "includeContentIdeas": true,
    "language": "en"
  }'

Use with Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")

run_input = {
    "country": "US",
    "maxTrends": 10,
    "includeNews": True,
    "includeContentIdeas": True,
    "language": "en",
}

run = client.actor("vasram/daily-trend-intelligence").call(run_input=run_input)

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(f"#{item['rank']} {item['keyword']} — {item['trend_velocity']}")

Use with JavaScript

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });

const input = {
    country: 'US',
    maxTrends: 10,
    includeNews: true,
    includeContentIdeas: true,
    language: 'en',
};

const run = await client.actor('vasram/daily-trend-intelligence').call(input);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

items.forEach(item => {
    console.log(`#${item.rank} ${item.keyword} — ${item.trend_velocity}`);
});

Integrating Daily Trend Intelligence into your workflows

You can integrate Daily Trend Intelligence with almost any cloud service or web app. Apify offers integrations with Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub, Google Sheets, Google Drive, and more.

Alternatively, you can use webhooks to carry out an action whenever an event occurs, such as getting a notification whenever Daily Trend Intelligence successfully finishes a run.

Integration	How to use
Apify Scheduler	Set up daily or hourly runs for continuous trend monitoring
Webhooks	Get notified via HTTP POST when a run completes — trigger your own pipeline
Google Sheets	Auto-export results to a Google Sheet after each run
Zapier / Make	Connect to 5,000+ apps via Apify's integrations
Slack / Email	Send trend alerts to your team channels

Advanced features

News quality pipeline

Every news article goes through a 4-step quality gate before inclusion:

1. Spam detection — Rejects clickbait patterns like "You won't believe...", excessive punctuation, and scam text
2. Freshness check — Only articles published within the last 14 days are accepted
3. Encoding check — Rejects garbled or non-readable titles using Latin character ratio analysis
4. Source scoring — Articles are ranked by source authority (High → Medium → Unverified) and sorted by recency

2-layer real-time event detection

The Actor uses two independent layers to detect live events and automatically adjust content urgency:

1. Keyword-level — Checks if the trend keyword contains real-time signal words (e.g., "vs", "live score", "breaking", "election results")
2. News-level — Scans related article titles for live event signals, catching cases where the keyword is generic (e.g., "Canada Finland") but the news reveals a live event

If either layer detects a real-time event, content urgency is set to 🔴 HIGH and posting time is set to "Post NOW".

Limitations and data notes

• Search volume — Approximate bucket estimates from Google RSS, not exact search counts
• Trend change — Estimated from traffic volume when Google does not provide explicit percentage data
• News sources — Source authority is based on a curated list of 200+ sources. Some legitimate sources may appear as "? Unverified"
• Content ideas — Generated from template patterns, not AI. Titles are structurally varied but not deeply context-aware
• Language — Trending topics come in the local language of the selected country. The language parameter only affects news article fetching
• Historical data — This Actor fetches only today's trending topics. For historical trend analysis, use dedicated Google Trends API solutions

Frequently asked questions

Do I need any API keys?

No. This Actor uses only free, publicly available Google RSS feeds. No API keys, authentication, or external accounts are needed.

How often should I run this Actor?

For most use cases, once or twice daily is sufficient. Google Trends updates throughout the day, so morning and afternoon runs give excellent coverage. You can automate this using Apify's built-in scheduler.

Can I get historical trends?

No. This Actor fetches only today's trending topics. Each run gives you a real-time snapshot. For historical analysis, consider dedicated Google Trends services.

Why is a source marked "? Unverified"?

The Actor scores 200+ news sources. If a source is not in the curated list, it's marked as "? Unverified". This does not mean the source is unreliable — it simply hasn't been manually verified and added to the list yet.

How is content urgency determined?

The Actor uses two detection layers: (1) the keyword text is checked against 150+ real-time event patterns, and (2) the related news article titles are scanned for the same patterns. If either layer detects a live event, urgency is set to HIGH.

Your feedback

If you find any bugs, have feature requests, or need help, please open an issue on the Issues tab or contact us through Apify's messaging system. We actively maintain this Actor and welcome your feedback.