Google Trends Trending Now Scraper — Daily Trending Searches API

Get today's trending searches from Google Trends ("Trending now") for any country in seconds: the search term, approximate search volume, when the trend started, and the news articles Google links to it. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel, call it via API, or schedule it hourly.

• ⚡ Fast and cheap – plain HTTP, no browser. A run for 5 countries finishes in a few seconds.
• 🌍 Many countries in one run – US, GB, DE, CZ, IN, BR, JP… any Google Trends region.
• 📰 Related news included – headline, URL, publisher and image for every trend.
• 🔢 Clean numbers – "50K+" is also returned as approxTrafficNumber: 50000 for sorting and alerts.
• 🤖 Works with AI agents – available through the Apify MCP server and API.

What can I use it for?

• Newsrooms and content teams – spot breaking topics per market and write about them first.
• SEO and content marketing – find fresh keyword and article ideas every day.
• Ad buying and e-commerce – react to demand spikes before competitors.
• Dashboards and alerts – schedule it hourly and push new trends to Slack, Google Sheets, Make, Zapier or n8n.
• AI agents and LLM apps – give your agent a reliable "what is trending right now" tool.

How to use it

1. Enter one or more country codes (e.g. US, GB, CZ).
2. Optionally set Max trends per country and whether to include news.
3. Click Start. Download the results or read them through the API.

Input example

{
  "geos": ["US", "GB", "DE"],
  "maxItemsPerGeo": 20,
  "includeNews": true
}

Output example

One dataset item per trending search:

{
  "geo": "US",
  "rank": 1,
  "title": "carrie preston",
  "approxTraffic": "1000+",
  "approxTrafficNumber": 1000,
  "startedAt": "2026-10-18T13:20:00.000Z",
  "pictureUrl": "https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=...",
  "pictureSource": "TODAY.com",
  "exploreUrl": "https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=carrie%20preston&date=now%201-d",
  "newsCount": 2,
  "news": [
    { "title": "Carrie Preston Unpacks 'Elsbeth' Season 4…", "url": "https://www.today.com/...", "source": "TODAY.com", "pictureUrl": "https://..." }
  ],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-18T13:41:16.930Z"
}

Field	Description
geo	Country code of the Google Trends region
rank	Position in the current trending list
title	Trending search term
approxTraffic / approxTrafficNumber	Approximate number of searches ("50K+" / 50000)
startedAt	When the search started trending (ISO 8601, UTC)
news[]	Related news articles: title, URL, publisher, image
exploreUrl	Link to the term in Google Trends Explore

How much does it cost?

Simple pay-per-event pricing, no compute charges:

• $1.50 per 1,000 trends (cheaper on Apify Bronze/Silver/Gold plans, down to $1.00) + $0.005 per run.
• Example: 1 country (≈10 trends) = $0.02 per run. Hourly for 5 countries (≈50 trends/run) ≈ $0.08 per run, ≈ $58 per month.
• You can cap the cost of any run with Maximum cost per run in the run options.

Tips and limits

• Google publishes roughly 10–20 live trends per country in this feed at any moment. For more coverage, run it on a schedule (e.g. hourly) and deduplicate by geo + title.
• The Actor normally needs no proxy. If you ever see HTTP 429 errors, enable Apify Proxy in the Advanced section.
• Interest-over-time history is not part of this Actor (yet).

FAQ

How many trends do I get per country? Google publishes roughly 10–20 live trends per country at a time. Schedule the Actor hourly to capture more over a day.

Can I get interest over time or related queries for a keyword? Not in this Actor – it covers the Trending now list. Use it to discover topics, then analyze them in Google Trends Explore.

Which countries are supported? Every country Google Trends offers a Trending now page for (US, GB, DE, FR, IN, BR, JP, CZ…). Invalid codes are skipped with a warning.

How fresh is the data? Live at the moment of the run (scrapedAt); startedAt tells you when each trend began.

Can I export to Google Sheets, Slack or Make? Yes – use Apify integrations or webhooks, or download JSON/CSV/Excel.

🧰 More Actors from the same toolkit

Actor	What it does
Google Trends Trending Now Scraper	Today's trending searches per country with search volume and related news
App Store Top Charts Scraper	Top free & top paid iPhone apps per country with full app details
App Store Keyword Rank Tracker & Search Scraper	App Store search results and your app's keyword rank (ASO)

All three are fast (no browser), use public endpoints only, and have simple pay-per-result pricing.

🤖 Use with AI agents (MCP) and the API

• Works out of the box with the Apify MCP server (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other MCP clients): the agent can search for this Actor, read the input schema and run it.
• For compact results that fit an LLM context, turn off the long-text options (see Input).
• API: POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/webatola~google-trends-trending-now/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN with the input JSON as the body returns the results directly.

Is it legal to scrape Google Trends?

The Actor reads only a public feed of aggregated trend data and news links – no personal data, no login, no bypassing of any protection. Make sure your use complies with Google's terms and the laws of your country. If in doubt, ask a lawyer.

Feedback

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