Google Trends Scraper — Trending Searches by Country, Traffic & News 📊

🎉 Capture what the world is searching right now — every trending term by country, with its search-traffic volume and the news stories driving it.

Built for trend-spotters, news & social teams, marketers, and market researchers who need real-time demand signals in clean JSON/CSV.

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📋 Overview

Know what's breaking before it peaks. This scraper pulls the current trending searches for any country — the exact terms people are searching for surge in right now — and returns each one with its approximate search volume, the news articles fueling it, and a thumbnail. Scrape one country or dozens in a single run.

Why teams choose this scraper:

• 🌎 Any country, many at once: Get trending searches for the US, UK, Germany, Japan, Brazil, India and 100+ regions — batch several in one run.
• ⚡ Real-time signal: The freshest trending terms, updated continuously — spot breakouts as they happen.
• 📰 Context included: Each trend ships with the news articles driving it (headline, source, link, image) — not just a bare keyword.
• 📈 Traffic volume: Every term carries an approximate search-volume band (e.g. 500K+, 2000+) so you can rank by momentum.
• 💸 Pay only for results: Transparent pay-per-result pricing — you're never charged until your input is validated.
• 🧹 Clean, ready-to-use data: Structured JSON/CSV/Excel out of the box — no parsing, no setup, no API key.

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✨ Features

• 🔥 Trending searches by country — the live list of surging search terms for any region.
• 📊 Search-traffic bands — an approximate volume for every term so you can sort by heat.
• 📰 News context — the articles driving each trend: title, source, URL, snippet, thumbnail.
• 🌍 Multi-region runs — pass a list of countries and get them all in one dataset.
• 🖼️ Thumbnails — a representative image URL for each trend, ready for dashboards.
• 🕒 Trend timing — when each term started trending.
• 📦 Export anywhere — JSON, CSV, Excel, or pull straight from the dataset API.
• 🚫 No account, no API key — just enter a country and run.

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🎬 Quick Start

Pick a country (or paste a list of them), set how many records you want, and run. The scraper fetches the live trending feed and returns one clean record per trending term.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/sian.agency~google-trends-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"geo": "US"}'

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🚀 Getting Started (3 Simple Steps)

Step 1: Choose your region

Enter a country code in Region — e.g. US, GB, DE, JP, BR, IN. Leave it blank for worldwide.

Step 2: (Optional) Add more countries

Use Multiple regions to paste a list of country codes and scrape them all in one run.

Step 3: Run and export

Click Start. When it finishes, download your results as JSON, CSV, or Excel — or read them from the dataset API.

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📊 Output Data

Each record is one trending search term:

Field	Description
id / keyword	The trending search term
geo	The region it's trending in (e.g. US)
traffic	Approximate search-volume band (e.g. 500K+)
published_at	When the term started trending
articles	News articles driving the trend (title, source, URL, snippet, image)
related_queries	Related sub-queries for the term (when available)
url	Google Trends explore link for the term
source	Always google_trends

Example record

{
  "id": "world cup fixtures",
  "keyword": "world cup fixtures",
  "geo": "US",
  "mode": "list",
  "traffic": "500K+",
  "published_at": "Tue, 23 Jun 2026 10:20:00 -0700",
  "related_queries": [],
  "articles": [
    {
      "title": "World Cup 2026: full schedule and how to watch",
      "url": "https://example-news.com/world-cup-fixtures",
      "source": "Example News",
      "time_ago": null,
      "snippet": null,
      "image_url": "https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=..."
    }
  ],
  "url": "https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&hl=en-US&q=world+cup+fixtures",
  "source": "google_trends"
}

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💡 Use Cases

• Real-time trend spotting — catch breakout topics the moment they surge.
• News & social monitoring — see what's driving public attention by country, with sources.
• Content & ad timing — publish and bid when interest is peaking.
• Market research — track demand shifts across regions over time.
• SEO & keyword seeding — discover fresh, high-momentum search terms to target.
• Newsroom & PR — find the stories the public is actively searching for.

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❓ FAQ

Which countries are supported? 100+ — pass any ISO country code (e.g. US, GB, DE, JP, BR, IN) or a country-subregion like US-CA. Leave the region blank for worldwide.

How fresh is the data? It reflects the current trending-searches feed, which updates continuously throughout the day.

Do I need an account or API key? No. Just enter a region and run.

What formats can I export? JSON, CSV, and Excel, or pull directly from the Apify dataset API.

Is there a free tier? Yes — the FREE tier returns up to 25 records per run so you can evaluate the output before scaling.

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Disclaimer: This is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google LLC. "Google" and "Google Trends" are trademarks of Google LLC. This scraper accesses only publicly available information and is intended for lawful use in compliance with applicable terms and regulations.