Google Trends API (free): export interest over time, regions and trending searches

Google Trends has no official public API for most of what the website shows. There is a closed alpha for a small group of researchers, and a few unofficial libraries that break often when Google changes its pages or starts rate limiting your IP. If you searched for a free Google Trends API, a way to export Google Trends data, or something that works in a scheduled job without babysitting, this page is for you.

The Google Trends Scraper (Free) is an unofficial tool that runs on Apify. It returns Google Trends data as clean JSON, CSV or Excel, and the actor itself costs nothing: you only pay the small Apify platform usage of your run.

What you can export

• Interest over time: the 0 to 100 curve for any period, from the past hour to 2004, with a free summary per term: average, peak and its date, latest value and the trend in percent.
• Interest by region: where a term is searched most, by country, region, city or metro area.
• Related queries and topics: the top and the rising searches, including “Breakout” terms, which are a good source of content and product ideas.
• Compare terms: up to five terms on the same scale, like the Compare button on trends.google.com.
• Trending now: today’s trending searches in a country, with an approximate search volume and the news articles behind each trend.
• Every filter of the website: country or region, category, and search type (web, images, news, YouTube, Google Shopping).

Free alternatives, honestly

The Google Trends website lets you download a CSV by hand, one chart at a time. That is free and perfectly fine for a one-off look. Unofficial Python and Node libraries are free too, but you host them, handle the blocking yourself and fix them when they break. The paid SEO suites include trend data inside much larger subscriptions. The scraper fits in between: no server to maintain, an API and a schedule included, and no fee for the tool itself.

A real example

From a sample run on 8 November 2026 (trending searches in France): the second most popular trend at that moment was “démolition”, with an approximate volume of more than 500 searches, which started at 07:40 UTC. The full row also lists the news articles behind the trend.

{
  "type": "trendingNow",
  "geo": "FR",
  "rank": 2,
  "title": "démolition",
  "approxTraffic": "500+",
  "approxTrafficMin": 500,
  "startedAt": "2026-11-08T07:40:00.000Z"
}

Trends move within hours, so these values are valid for that run only. See the full sample output.

Export Google Trends data in three steps

1. Choose the terms and the scope in the Apify Console: your search terms, a country such as FR or US, a period such as today 12-m or today 5-y, and the blocks you want (interest over time, regions, related queries, trending now).
2. Run it, once or on a schedule. Several terms and several countries can be handled in the same run.
3. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or fetch it by API from your own code, a spreadsheet, Make, Zapier or n8n.

{
  "searchTerms": ["electric bike", "e-scooter"],
  "geo": "FR",
  "timeRange": "today 12-m",
  "interestOverTime": true,
  "interestByRegion": true,
  "relatedQueries": true,
  "trendingCountries": ["FR"]
}

For a content calendar, schedule the “trending now” block every morning. For seasonality research, pull five years of interest for each product of your catalogue and compare the peaks. AI agents can call the scraper through the Apify MCP server: https://mcp.apify.com?tools=euroscrape/google-trends-free. See our MCP guide, and another API-style guide built the same way: Google Flights API.

Pricing

There is no actor fee ($0 per run and per result): the tool is free. Your run only uses Apify platform resources, which are billed by Apify at its usual rates and are covered by the monthly free credit of a free Apify account for light use. Read from the actor’s pricing file on 9 November 2026.

FAQ

Is there a free Google Trends API? Google offers no general public API. The scraper gives you an API-style access to the same public data, with no fee for the actor.

Can I export Google Trends to CSV or Excel? Yes. Each run produces a dataset that you can download as CSV, Excel or JSON.

Can I compare several keywords? Yes, up to five terms on the same 0 to 100 scale, as on the website.

Can I get the trending searches of a country? Yes. The “trending now” block returns today’s trending searches with approximate volumes and linked news.

Why do Google Trends numbers look relative? Google Trends scales its curves from 0 to 100 against the peak of the selected period; it never publishes absolute search counts for interest over time.

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