Google Trends Scraper & API: Trending Now, Interest, Regions

Get Google Trends data for any keyword, country and time range: interest over time, interest by country, region or city, related queries (top and rising), related topics, and a ready trend summary (rising, falling or stable, change in %, peak date). Built for reliability: when Google rate-limits a request, the Actor switches to a fresh IP and session and tries again, and you pay only for results that are actually delivered.

Two modes in one Actor:

• Trending now: today's trending searches for any country (the feed behind trends.google.com/trending) with approximate search volume, start time and related news articles.
• Keyword analysis: interest over time, interest by region, related and rising queries for any keyword, compared or one by one.

A practical Google Trends API alternative: Google has no public Trends API, and libraries like pytrends break on rate limits (HTTP 429). This Actor handles the retries for you.

What you get for each keyword

Data	Details
Trend summary	trend (rising / falling / stable), changePercent (last quarter of the period vs the first), latestValue, averageValue, peakValue, peakDate
Interest over time	Every point of the Google Trends chart: date, value 0-100, partial-period flag
Interest by region	Countries (worldwide), states / regions, cities or US metro areas, sorted by interest
Related queries	Top queries and rising queries with growth such as +300% or Breakout
Related topics	Top and rising topics with type and Knowledge Graph ID, when Google has enough data

Works for Web search, YouTube search, News, Images and Google Shopping, any category, any country or sub-region (for example US-CA), and all time ranges from the past hour to 2004-present, including custom date ranges.

Compare mode

Turn on Compare terms with each other to put up to 5 keywords on one chart, exactly like the Compare button on trends.google.com. Values are then relative to each other, so you can see which keyword wins and by how much.

Input example

{
  "searchTerms": ["electric bike", "ebike"],
  "compareTerms": true,
  "geo": "US",
  "timeRange": "today 12-m",
  "includeInterestOverTime": true,
  "includeInterestByRegion": true,
  "includeRelatedQueries": true,
  "includeRelatedTopics": true
}

Output example

{
  "searchTerm": "electric bike",
  "comparedWith": [],
  "geo": "US",
  "timeRange": "today 12-m",
  "searchType": "web",
  "summary": {
    "hasData": true,
    "latestValue": 20,
    "averageValue": 31.3,
    "peakValue": 100,
    "peakDate": "2026-04-12",
    "changePercent": 23,
    "trend": "rising"
  },
  "interestOverTime": [{ "date": "2026-04-12", "label": "Apr 12 - 18, 2026", "value": 100, "hasData": true, "isPartial": false }],
  "interestByRegion": [{ "geoCode": "US-ID", "geoName": "Idaho", "value": 23 }],
  "relatedQueries": {
    "top": [{ "query": "electric dirt bike", "value": 99, "formattedValue": "99" }],
    "rising": [{ "query": "fat tire electric bike", "value": 250, "formattedValue": "+250%" }]
  },
  "relatedTopics": { "top": [], "rising": [] }
}

Trending now output example

{
  "type": "trendingNow",
  "geo": "US",
  "rank": 1,
  "query": "taylor fritz",
  "approxTraffic": "200+",
  "approxTrafficMin": 200,
  "startedAt": "2026-10-10T06:20:00.000Z",
  "news": [{ "title": "Arnaldi vs Fritz, Shanghai 2026", "url": "https://...", "source": "TennisTemple" }]
}

FAQ

Is there an official Google Trends API? Google has announced a Trends API in limited alpha, but there is no open public API. This Actor uses the same data the trends.google.com website shows.

Is this a pytrends alternative? Yes. pytrends often fails with "429 Too Many Requests". Here every rate-limited request is retried with a fresh IP and session, and failed keywords are never charged.

Are the numbers search volumes? No. Google Trends values are relative (0-100). Trending now gives an approximate absolute volume such as "200+" or "50K+".

Can I run it on a schedule? Yes. Use Apify Schedules to collect trending searches every hour or day and build your own history.

Can AI agents use it? Yes, through the Apify MCP server: an agent can ask "is X trending in Germany?" and get real data.

Use cases

• SEO and content teams: find rising queries before competitors, plan seasonal content around peaks.
• E-commerce and product research: check if a product category is growing or fading, and where.
• Market and investment research: track interest in brands, products and technologies over years.
• AI agents: call the Actor through the Apify MCP server to answer "is X trending?" with real data.

Pricing

Pay per delivered result: one result = one keyword with all the data you selected. Failed keywords are not charged.

Notes

• Google Trends values are relative (0-100) to the highest point in the selected period and region, not absolute search volumes.
• For rare keywords Google may return little or no data. The summary then shows hasData: false.
• Related topics are sometimes empty on Google Trends itself ("not enough data"); the Actor returns exactly what Google shows.
• Residential proxies give the most reliable results and are used by default.