Google Trends Real-Time Scraper

Track what people are searching for right now across multiple countries. This Actor converts Google Trends’ public real-time feed into clean JSON with approximate search traffic, publication timestamps, trend images, related news, and ready-to-open Google Trends links.

It runs over pure HTTP—no browser, account, API key, or proxy—so it is fast, inexpensive, and practical for schedules and monitoring pipelines.

Why teams use it

• Discover breaking topics before planning content, campaigns, or newsroom coverage.
• Compare trend feeds across the US, UK, Canada, Australia, India, and other supported markets in one run.
• Prioritize topics using Google’s approximate traffic instead of a title-only list.
• Capture the news stories Google associates with each trend for context and source discovery.
• Schedule the Actor and send new rows to Sheets, Slack, webhooks, databases, or an API workflow.

Input

{
  "geoLocations": ["US", "GB", "CA"],
  "maxResultsPerCountry": 20,
  "includeNews": true,
  "minimumTraffic": 10000
}

Field	Description
geoLocations	Two-letter country codes. Multiple markets are supported per run.
maxResultsPerCountry	Maximum trends returned for each country, from 1 to 100.
includeNews	Include related article titles, snippets, sources, and URLs.
minimumTraffic	Filter out trends below an approximate search-volume threshold.

Output

{
  "query": "example trend",
  "geo": "US",
  "approx_traffic": 200000,
  "approx_traffic_label": "200K+",
  "published_at": "2026-07-18T12:00:00+00:00",
  "picture_url": "https://...",
  "picture_source": "Example News",
  "news": [
    {"title": "Why this topic is trending", "snippet": "...", "url": "https://...", "source": "Example News"}
  ],
  "news_count": 1,
  "trend_url": "https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?...",
  "google_search_url": "https://www.google.com/search?q=...",
  "source": "Google Trends real-time RSS"
}

Pricing

You pay only for trends returned. There is no run-start fee. Prices automatically fall from $0.001 to $0.0003 per trend across the FREE, BRONZE, SILVER, and GOLD tiers.

Important scope

This Actor extracts Google’s real-time trending-search feed. It does not fabricate historical interest curves or require access to a private Google API. Availability and ranking are controlled by Google and differ by country.

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