Google Trends Trending Now Monitor - Full List & New Alerts

Get every trending search on Google right now for any country, the same list you see on trends.google.com/trending, as clean JSON, CSV or Excel: search volume, % increase, start and end time, categories and related searches. Schedule it in "only new" mode and it becomes a trend alert system. $1 per 1,000 trends.

What can this Google Trends Trending Now scraper do?

• 🔥 The full list, not the RSS top 10. Most tools read Google's RSS feed, which has about 10 trends. This Actor returns every trend on the Trending Now page, often 300-500 per country per day, for the past 4h, 24h, 48h or 7 days.
• 📊 Rich fields: search volume (200000) and label (200K+), % increase, start/end time, active flag, duration, categories, related searches, a Google Trends explore link, and how many news articles Google links.
• 🔔 Only-new monitor mode. onlyNew remembers what you already received (per monitor name), so scheduled runs never repeat a trend and you're never charged twice for the same one.
• 🎯 Filters that save money: category (Sports, Technology, Business...), minimum search volume, active-only and a keyword filter are applied before billing. You only pay for trends you receive.
• 🌍 Many countries in one run: ["US", "GB", "DE", "IN", "BR"], about 125 countries supported.
• 🛡️ Reliable: automatic retries with a fresh IP, plus residential proxy fallback when Google pushes back.

Who uses it

• Newsrooms and content teams: catch breaking stories the moment search interest spikes.
• SEO and social media: find topics to write or post about while they're still rising (activeOnly, sortBy: newest).
• E-commerce and marketing: watch for trends in your category (categories: ["Shopping", "Beauty and Fashion"]).
• Traders and analysts: monitor company, product or crypto names with keywordFilter and get alerted on spikes.
• AI agents and dashboards: call it from the API or MCP and get structured trend data with no parsing.

How to use it

1. Click Try for free. The form opens with the US and a limit of 50 trends.
2. Pick countries, a time window and, optionally, categories or a minimum search volume.
3. Click Start. A country takes about 5 seconds.
4. For alerts: turn on Only new trends, give the monitor a name, save it as a task and add a schedule (e.g. every hour). Connect Slack, email, Google Sheets or a webhook to the task.

Input examples

Today's top 50 trends in the US (the default)

{ "countries": ["US"], "maxItemsPerCountry": 50 }

Hourly tech and business alert for the US and UK

{
  "countries": ["US", "GB"],
  "timeWindow": "4",
  "categories": ["Technology", "Business and Finance"],
  "minSearchVolume": 2000,
  "onlyNew": true,
  "monitorName": "tech-alerts",
  "maxItemsPerCountry": 0
}

Field	What it does
countries	Country codes: US, GB, DE, IN, JP... (default US)
timeWindow	4, 24, 48 or 168 hours, the same as the "Since" filter on Google
categories	Only these categories, e.g. ["Sports", "Technology"] (empty = all)
minSearchVolume	Skip trends with fewer searches, e.g. 10000
activeOnly	Only trends that are still rising
keywordFilter	Only trends whose search or related searches contain this text
sortBy	rank (Google's order), volume or newest
maxItemsPerCountry	Limit per country after filters (default 25, 0 = all)
onlyNew + monitorName	Monitor mode: deliver only trends not delivered by earlier runs of this monitor
includeNews	Attach news links and a picture where Google's news feed has them (free)

Output example

A real item from a run on 6 October 2026 (US, past 24 hours). That run found 418 trends and delivered the top 50:

{
  "type": "trend",
  "geo": "US",
  "rank": 2,
  "keyword": "dodgers vs braves",
  "searchVolume": 200000,
  "searchVolumeLabel": "200K+",
  "increasePercent": 1000,
  "startedAt": "2026-10-06T21:00:00Z",
  "endedAt": null,
  "isActive": true,
  "durationHours": 3.5,
  "categories": ["Sports"],
  "relatedQueries": ["dodgers game", "braves game", "where to watch dodgers vs atlanta braves", "matt olson", "dodgers vs braves prediction", "lad vs atl"],
  "newsArticleCount": 24,
  "news": [],
  "picture": null,
  "trendsExploreUrl": "https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=dodgers+vs+braves&geo=US&date=now+7-d",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-07T00:32:42Z",
  "timeWindowHours": 24
}

newsArticleCount is filled for every trend. Full news links (news: title, URL, source) and a picture come from Google's news feed, which covers only about 10 trends per country at a time, so most items have news: []. The run summary (trends found per country, skipped as already seen, failures) is saved as OUTPUT in the key-value store.

How much does it cost?

Event	Price	Per 1,000
Trend delivered	$0.001	$1.00
Run start	$0.005	-

Job	Cost
Daily snapshot of the top 50 US trends	about $0.055
Every US trend of the day (about 400)	about $0.41
Hourly only-new monitor, one country, filtered	usually $0.15-0.30 a day including run fees

Filtered-out, already-seen and failed trends are never charged. Set Maximum cost per run and the Actor stops cleanly when it's reached.

Use it with AI agents (MCP) and the API

Connect it to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client via https://mcp.apify.com?tools=zahidthani/google-trends-trending-now and ask, for example:

What's trending on Google in the US and UK right now in Technology? Only trends over 10K searches, sorted by volume.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/zahidthani~google-trends-trending-now/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"countries": ["US"], "categories": ["Technology"], "minSearchVolume": 10000, "sortBy": "volume"}'

How it compares

	This Actor	RSS-based Trending Now scrapers	Manual trends.google.com
Trends per country	Full list (hundreds)	About 10	Full list, by hand
Search volume and % increase	Yes	Approximate traffic only	Yes
Start/end time, active flag	Yes	Start only	Yes
Categories and related searches	Yes	No	Yes
Only-new monitor mode (no repeats, no double charges)	Yes	No	No
Filters before billing	Yes	No	n/a
Several countries in one run	Yes	Usually one	One at a time

FAQ

Is there a Google Trends API for trending searches? Google doesn't offer an open API for the Trending Now list. This Actor turns the public page into an API: call it from any language, a no-code tool or an AI agent.

How does "Only new trends" work? The Actor stores the trends it delivered in a key-value store in your Apify account (trending-now-monitor, one record per monitor name, kept for 10 days). The next run skips anything already delivered. A trend that ends and later trends again counts as new. Use different monitorNames for monitors with different filters.

How do I get alerts in Slack or email? Schedule the Actor (Apify Console > Schedules, e.g. every hour), turn on onlyNew, and add an integration (Slack, email, Google Sheets, Zapier, Make or a webhook) to the task.

Which countries are supported? Every country available on trends.google.com/trending (about 125). Use two-letter codes. An unsupported code is reported as failed and isn't charged.

What is searchVolume? Google's rounded estimate of searches since the trend started (e.g. 2000, 50000, 500000). increasePercent is how much searches grew compared with before the trend.

How often does the list update? Google refreshes Trending Now continuously. An hourly schedule catches new trends within the hour.

Is it legal? The Actor collects only public, aggregated trend data that anyone can see on trends.google.com, with no login or Google account. It collects no personal data.

Need interest over time, by region or related queries for a trend? Use our Google Trends Scraper: spot a trend here, then analyse it there.

Found a bug or want a feature? Open an issue on the Issues tab. We usually respond within a day.

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