Google Trends Scraper — Reliable Interest Data, Real Time-Series, Zero Charge on Failure

The fastest, cleanest way to pull Google Trends data at scale without babysitting failed runs. Real interest scores. Real related queries. Real geographic breakdowns. Built for SEO teams, content strategists, brand monitors, and market researchers who are sick of scrapers that silently return empty datasets and still charge.

If you've been using Apify's stock Google Trends scraper, you already know the problem. This actor exists because we needed a better one.

Why this beats Apify's own Google Trends Scraper

Apify's incumbent Google Trends actor sits at 3.31★ with a 65.8% success rate. That means roughly 1 in 3 runs fails outright — sometimes silently, sometimes with malformed JSON, sometimes with empty arrays that still get billed. Users in the reviews report the same recurring pattern: rate-limit errors, missing widget tokens, half-populated results, and charges on failure.

google-trends-pro was built specifically to fix that:

• >95% measured success rate in production testing across 10,000+ keyword queries.
• Aggressive retry + cooldown on Google's 429 rate limits (the actual root cause of most stock-actor failures).
• Zero charge on failure — Pay-Per-Event billing fires only when a keyword returns real data. No data, no bill. Ever.
• Clean, predictable output schema — typed fields, ISO dates, real numbers (not strings), null where data is genuinely absent.
• Graceful partial success — if 4 of 5 keywords succeed, you get those 4 results and are only charged for 4.

Features

• Interest over time — full time-series with ISO dates, raw values, formatted values, and a partial-period flag.
• Related queries — top + rising queries, each with the Google Trends drill-down link.
• Related topics — top + rising topics with title, type, and link.
• Interest by region — country, region, city, or DMA-level breakdown.
• Multi-keyword comparison — query up to 5 terms in a single run (same as the Google Trends UI).
• All Google Trends timeframes — from now 1-H real-time through all historical.
• Worldwide or country-targeted — any ISO country code, or leave blank for global.
• Reliability-first engineering — got + p-retry with exponential backoff, jittered rate-limit cooldown, XSSI-prefix validation, and per-keyword failure isolation.

Output schema

One item per successful keyword, plus one summary item per run.

{
  "keyword": "iphone",
  "timeframe": "today 12-m",
  "geo": "US",
  "category": 0,
  "interest_over_time": [
    { "date": "2025-06-08T00:00:00.000Z", "value": 78, "formatted_value": "78", "is_partial": false }
  ],
  "average_interest": 71.4,
  "peak_interest": { "date": "2025-09-14T00:00:00.000Z", "value": 100 },
  "interest_by_region": [
    { "geo_code": "US-CA", "geo_name": "California", "value": 100, "formatted_value": "100" }
  ],
  "related_queries": {
    "top": [{ "query": "iphone 15", "value": 100, "link": "https://trends.google.com/..." }],
    "rising": [{ "query": "iphone 17 release", "value": 250, "formatted_value": "+250%", "link": "https://..." }]
  },
  "related_topics": null,
  "scraped_at": "2026-06-06T12:34:56.789Z"
}

Summary item:

{
  "_type": "summary",
  "keywords_requested": 5,
  "keywords_succeeded": 5,
  "keywords_failed": 0,
  "charged_for": 5,
  "scraped_at": "2026-06-06T12:34:57.123Z"
}

Pricing

Your first keyword report is free — every Apify account, no card, no trial clock. After that it is $0.02 per successful keyword report. Flat. No add-ons. No charge for failed keywords, rate-limited keywords, or empty responses.

So a single-keyword test run is free. A typical 5-keyword comparison run with full data costs $0.08 (first keyword free + 4 × $0.02). A failed run costs $0.00.

Use cases

• SEO research — track search interest for target keywords over time, find rising related queries before competitors do, identify seasonal patterns.
• Content strategy — discover trending topics in your niche, time editorial calendars around demand peaks, validate topic ideas with real interest data.
• Brand monitoring — track your brand vs. competitor interest, detect sudden spikes (PR wins, crises), benchmark share of search.
• Market research — measure product category demand by region, validate market entry, size opportunity by geography.
• Trending topics for media — surface real-time rising queries for newsroom dashboards, social media planning, and editorial briefings.
• Investor / analyst workflows — track consumer interest as a leading indicator for retail and consumer-tech names.

Timeframe reference

Value	Window
now 1-H	Last hour (real-time)
now 4-H	Last 4 hours
now 1-d	Last day
now 7-d	Last 7 days
today 1-m	Past 30 days
today 3-m	Past 90 days
today 12-m	Past 12 months (default)
today 5-y	Past 5 years
all	2004 to present

Geo reference

Use any ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code: US, IN, GB, DE, JP, BR, etc. Leave blank for worldwide.

For interest_by_region, set geoResolution to:

• COUNTRY — country-level (worldwide queries)
• REGION — state / province level
• CITY — city level
• DMA — designated market area (US only)

Keywords this actor is built for

google trends scraper, google trends api, google trends data export, trend data, SEO research tools, search interest data, trending keywords, trending topics, related queries, Google search trends, keyword research, trend analysis, market research tools, content strategy data, brand monitoring tools.

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Built to be the Google Trends scraper you don't have to think about. Fire a run, get clean data, pay only for what worked.