Google Trends Scraper API – Interest, Related & Trending Now

Google Trends Scraper API: Related Queries, Interest Over Time & Trending Now (No Login)

Get Google Trends data as clean JSON, with no login and no API key. Type a search term, or up to 5 terms to compare, and get one row with everything the Explore page shows: interest over time, interest by region (countries, states, metro areas or cities), and top and rising related queries. Each row also answers the usual question in plain columns: trend (rising, falling or stable), changePercent, topRegion, topRisingQuery, and in a comparison the leader. Add countries to also get Google's Trending now list: what people search right now, with search volume, growth %, start time and related searches. Export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or call the actor as an API from code, n8n, Make, Zapier or an AI agent.

Built for: keyword and content research, SEO, spotting rising queries before competitors, seasonal demand planning for e-commerce, newsroom and social-media trend alerts, market research dashboards, and feeding trend data to an LLM.

Your first 50 keyword reports and 500 trending searches each month are free, so a first test costs only the $0.005 start fee, which Apify's free $5 monthly credit covers. After that it's $0.002 per keyword report (a whole report, not per data point) and $0.25 per 1,000 trending searches. Click Start and the prefilled run returns 2 reports and 20 trending searches in about 5 seconds. This tool is unofficial and not affiliated with Google.

Real rows from 9 November 2026 (United States, past 5 years):

Search term (input)	average	Peak week	topRegion	topRisingQuery
hurricane	3.3	2024-10-06	Florida	milton hurricane tracker (Breakout)
green bay packers	19	2026-11-08	Wisconsin	green bay packers schedule 2026 (Breakout)
super bowl	4.2	2024-02-11	Kansas	super bowl halftime show 2026 (Breakout)
lakers	12.7	2023-05-07	California	austin reaves (+3,250%)

And from Trending now, United States, past 24 hours:

Rank	Trending search	Volume	Growth	Started (UTC)	Category
1	buccaneers vs bears	500K+	+1,000%	2026-11-08 21:50	Sports
2	packers vs patriots	1M+	+1,000%	2026-11-08 13:20	Sports
9	nvidia	200K+	+1,000%	2026-11-08 20:20	Other

🚀 Pick your starting point

You want	Paste this input
One keyword, past 12 months, US	{ "searchTerms": ["air fryer"], "geo": "US" }
Compare up to 5 terms on one scale	{ "searchTerms": ["iphone, samsung galaxy, pixel"], "geo": "US" }
Many keywords at once	{ "searchTerms": ["coffee", "tea", "matcha", "kombucha"], "geo": "GB" }
Five years, worldwide	{ "searchTerms": ["bitcoin"], "timeRange": "today 5-y" }
A custom period	{ "searchTerms": ["black friday"], "timeRange": "custom", "customTimeRange": "2025-10-01 2025-12-31" }
YouTube or Shopping interest	{ "searchTerms": ["lego"], "searchProperty": "youtube" }
City-level demand	{ "searchTerms": ["pickleball"], "geo": "US", "regionResolution": "CITY" }
Paste a link from Google Trends	{ "trendsUrls": ["https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=chatgpt,gemini&geo=US"] }
What's trending now in 3 countries	{ "trendingCountries": ["US", "GB", "KR"], "maxTrendingPerCountry": 50 }
A week of trends, Sports + Technology	{ "trendingCountries": ["US"], "trendingHours": "168", "trendingCategories": ["17", "18"], "maxTrendingPerCountry": 0 }

🔍 What does it do?

• Interest over time. Google's 0–100 timeline for the term, from the past hour (minute steps) to 2004–now (month steps), with the partial last period flagged.
• A summary per term. Each term gets average, latest, peak, peakDate, changePercent and trend (rising / falling / stable), so you can sort 500 keywords without opening the timelines.
• Flat columns for CSV, Excel and AI agents. trend, changePercent, average, leader, topRegion, topRelatedQuery, topRisingQuery and topRisingQueryLabel sit at the top level of each row, so a spreadsheet or an agent reads the answer without unpacking nested arrays.
• Comparisons. Up to 5 terms on one line share one scale, exactly like Google Trends' Compare.
• Interest by region. Countries, regions/states, US metro areas (DMA) or cities, with an automatic fallback when Google doesn't offer a level.
• Related queries. Top and rising, with the growth % or "Breakout" (over +5,000%).
• Trending now. Google's list for any country or US state, for the past 4, 24, 48 hours or 7 days (3,000+ trends for the US in a week), with volume, growth, start and end time, categories and related searches.
• Every filter Google has. Location, time range, category, and search type (web, YouTube, news, images, Google Shopping). Topic IDs like /m/027lnzs work too.

💡 Why choose this actor?

	This actor	The most-used Google Trends scrapers on the Store (checked 9 Nov 2026)
Price per keyword report (Bronze)	$0.002	$0.005 on the most-used one
Price per 1,000 trending searches (Bronze)	$0.25	$0.40 to $1.20; some add a $0.02–0.025 start fee
Free every month	✅ 50 reports + 500 trending searches	None
Keywords and Trending now in one run	✅	Usually one mode per run or per actor
Compare up to 5 terms on one scale	✅	Varies
Summary numbers on each row (average, peak, change, rising/falling)	✅	Raw timelines only
Top region and top rising query as flat CSV columns	✅	Nested arrays
Trending now: start/end time, growth %, 4 h to 7 days	✅	Varies
Status on every row	✅ Not enough data is a free row with a reason, not a silent gap	Varies

Our test runs: 108 keyword reports in 49 seconds with 0 refused requests and 0 failures; 12,401 trending searches from 5 countries (7 days) in 42 seconds.

💰 Pricing

You pay per event, and only for complete reports and trending searches you receive.

Event	What you get	Free plan	Bronze	Silver	Gold	Platinum+
keyword-report	One complete report (timeline, regions, related queries) for a term or a comparison	$0.0025	$0.002	$0.0018	$0.0015	$0.0012
trending-search	One Trending now search	$0.30 / 1K	$0.25 / 1K	$0.20 / 1K	$0.15 / 1K	$0.15 / 1K
apify-actor-start	Charged once per run	$0.005	$0.005	$0.005	$0.005	$0.005

Free every month: the first 50 keyword reports and the first 500 trending searches for each user. Reports with status NO_DATA, PARTIAL, INVALID_INPUT or UNAVAILABLE are never charged. Put many keywords in one run: the start fee is paid once. Set a maximum cost per run and the actor stops cleanly at that limit; in our test a $0.02 limit returned exactly 7 reports.

📥 Input

Field	What it does
searchTerms	One report per line. Up to 5 terms on one line, separated by commas, are compared
trendsUrls	Google Trends Explore links; their terms, location, period, category and search type are used
geo	US, GB, KR …, a region like US-CA, or empty for worldwide
timeRange	Past hour, 4 hours, day, 7 days, 30 days, 90 days, 12 months (default), 5 years, 2004 to now, or custom
customTimeRange	2024-01-01 2024-12-31, or with hours: 2026-11-01T00 2026-11-07T00
searchProperty	web, youtube, news, images or shopping
category	Google Trends category ID, e.g. 5 Computers & Electronics, 18 Shopping, 20 Sports, 71 Food & Drink
includeRegions, regionResolution, maxRegions	Interest by region, at country, region, metro or city level
includeRelatedQueries, includeRelatedTopics	Related queries and topics (top and rising)
trendingCountries	Countries or US states for Trending now
trendingHours	4, 24 (default), 48 or 168
trendingCategories, trendingActiveOnly	Keep only some categories, or only trends still rising
maxTrendingPerCountry, maxRelatedQueriesPerTrend	Caps for Trending now (0 = all)
language	Labels and region names, e.g. en-US, de, ko, ja

📤 Output

A keyword report (shortened):

{
  "type": "keyword",
  "status": "OK",
  "input": "chatgpt",
  "searchTerms": ["chatgpt"],
  "geo": "US",
  "timeRange": "today 12-m",
  "period": "2025-11-09 2026-11-09",
  "resolution": "WEEK",
  "searchProperty": "web",
  "trendsUrl": "https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=chatgpt&date=today%2012-m&geo=US",
  "average": 80.9,
  "changePercent": -4.2,
  "trend": "stable",
  "leader": null,
  "topRegion": "California",
  "topRelatedQuery": "ai chatgpt",
  "topRisingQuery": "chatgpt caricature",
  "topRisingQueryLabel": "+3,400%",
  "terms": [{ "term": "chatgpt", "label": "chatgpt", "average": 80.9, "latest": 85, "peak": 100, "peakDate": "2025-11-09", "changePercent": -4.2, "trend": "stable" }],
  "interestOverTime": [
    { "date": "2026-11-01", "label": "Nov 1 – 7, 2026", "value": 85, "values": [85], "hasData": true, "isPartial": false },
    { "date": "2026-11-08", "label": "Nov 8 – 14, 2026", "value": 64, "values": [64], "hasData": true, "isPartial": true }
  ],
  "interestByRegion": [{ "geoCode": "US-CA", "geoName": "California", "value": 100, "values": [100] }],
  "regionResolution": "REGION",
  "relatedQueriesTop": [{ "term": "chatgpt", "query": "ai chatgpt", "value": 100 }],
  "relatedQueriesRising": [{ "term": "chatgpt", "query": "chatgpt caricature", "value": 3400, "isBreakout": false, "label": "+3,400%" }],
  "relatedTopicsTop": [],
  "relatedTopicsRising": [],
  "note": "Google returned no related topics for this term.",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-11-09T03:15:20Z"
}

In a comparison, values holds one number per term in the order of searchTerms, and value is the first term. The flat columns (average, changePercent, trend, topRisingQuery …) also describe the first term, and leader names the term with the highest average. A Trending now row:

{
  "type": "trending",
  "rank": 2,
  "query": "packers vs patriots",
  "country": "US",
  "hours": 24,
  "searchVolume": 1000000,
  "searchVolumeLabel": "1M+",
  "increasePercent": 1000,
  "isActive": true,
  "startedAt": "2026-11-08T13:20:00Z",
  "endedAt": null,
  "categories": ["Sports"],
  "categoryIds": [17],
  "relatedQueries": ["drake maye", "patriots", "drake maye stats", "new england patriots", "jordan love"],
  "relatedQueriesCount": 39,
  "news": [],
  "trendsUrl": "https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=packers%20vs%20patriots&date=now%201-d&geo=US"
}

The Keyword reports and Trending now views in the Output tab show the main columns. RUN_SUMMARY in the key-value store lists the status of every input.

❓ FAQ

What do the numbers mean? Google Trends doesn't give search counts for keywords. It scales interest from 0 to 100, where 100 is the peak for the chosen term, place and period. In a comparison the scale is shared, so a 9 next to a 100 means about 11 times fewer searches. Trending now searchVolume is Google's own estimate (500K+ means at least 500,000 searches).

Why does a number differ slightly from what I see on trends.google.com? Google samples searches, so a report can shift by a point or two between days. Our values come unchanged from the same data Google Trends serves. We checked them against known facts: Packers peaks in Wisconsin, Red Sox in Massachusetts, Super Bowl every February, hurricane in Florida with Ian and Milton among the rising queries.

What are changePercent and trend? changePercent compares the average of the last 4 complete points with the first 4 points of the period. trend turns it into a word: rising at +10 % or more, falling at -10 % or less, otherwise stable. A quick "is it growing?" signal for sorting many keywords; use the timeline for anything precise.

Why is a report NO_DATA? Google Trends has not enough search volume for that term, place and period (for example a rare term in the past hour). The row says so, and it is free.

Why are related topics empty? In our November 2026 tests Google's Trends API returned an empty related-topics list for every term (108 of 108). We pass them on as soon as Google sends them, and the row note says when it didn't. Related queries work for all of them. In comparisons Google shows related topics for none of the terms.

What does PARTIAL mean? Google didn't answer one part (usually the region map) after several tries. The row has the rest, is marked PARTIAL and isn't charged.

Which region levels work? Countries for worldwide, regions/states inside a country, US metro areas (DMA) and cities. Google doesn't offer every level for every view, for example cities in a worldwide comparison. Then we use Google's own level and say so in note. City rows have names and coordinates but no code.

How many keywords can I run? As many as you like in one run; reports are fetched 6 at a time. 108 reports took 49 seconds in our test.

How fresh is Trending now? It's read live when the run starts. Schedule the actor (for example every hour) and use startedAt and isActive to see what's new.

Do I need a Google account or proxies? No. The actor uses the public data the Google Trends site loads, and switches to Apify Proxy by itself if Google slows it down.

Is it legal? It collects public, aggregated search-interest data, not personal data. You're responsible for how you use it, including Google's terms.

🤖 Use it from code

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/k-data-lab~google-trends-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"searchTerms":["air fryer","iphone, samsung galaxy"],"geo":"US","timeRange":"today 5-y"}'

🧠 Use it from AI agents (MCP)

Connect the Apify MCP server to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any other MCP client with this actor already loaded as a tool:

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=actors,k-data-lab/google-trends-scraper

It returns plain JSON with the answer already computed: trend says rising, falling or stable, leader says which compared term wins, and topRisingQuery gives the fastest-growing related search. An agent can answer "is this growing?" without parsing a chart.

The agent is asked to	Input to send
Is interest in a product growing in the US? (read trend)	{ "searchTerms": ["<product>"], "geo": "US", "timeRange": "today 5-y" }
Which of these brands is searched more? (read leader)	{ "searchTerms": ["<brand a>, <brand b>, <brand c>"] }
Find rising keywords around a topic	{ "searchTerms": ["<topic>"], "includeRegions": false }
Where is a term most popular?	{ "searchTerms": ["<term>"], "geo": "US", "regionResolution": "CITY", "maxRegions": 20 }
What's trending in Germany today?	{ "trendingCountries": ["DE"], "maxTrendingPerCountry": 25 }

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