Google Trends Trending API
Returns the Google Trends Trending Now list for one country or region: each trend's search volume, increase, start and end time, categories, related searches, and linked news.
GET /v1/google_trends/trendingLast updated October 2026Maintained by the SocialCrawl team
When to use the Google Trends Trending API
Use it to discover what a market is searching for right now without naming a keyword, filtered by time window, category, and active status.
From the API reference
Returns what people in one country or region are searching for right now, with no keyword in: the Google Trends Trending Now list for a place and a time window. Each item has rank (Google's relevance position), title, search_volume (the lower bound of Google's bucket, so 50000 means 50K+), increase_percent (Google shows at most 1000), started_at, ended_at and active (still trending when ended_at is null), categories, breakdown (the related searches Google groups into the trend) and up to 3 news articles Google links to it. total counts every trend matching your filters before limit. Narrow with hours, category and status, and reorder with sort; these are the same filters trends.google.com/trending offers. Google publishes no worldwide list, so location is required. A place and window with nothing trending returns 404 at 0 credits; filters that match nothing return an empty list at 0 credits. Typically under 2 seconds; allow 30 seconds for the slow tail. Exact repeats within 5 minutes are served from cache at 0 credits.
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What can you do with the Trending API?
The Trending endpoint gives you structured Google Trends data with computed fields in a single request. No scraping infrastructure to build or maintain.
Example Request
# GET /v1/google_trends/trending: 5 credits per call. Cache hits are free and failed calls are refunded.
# Check the price first for 0 credits: add dry_run=1 to the query. Nothing is fetched or charged.
# --max-time 10: this endpoint's measured p99 latency x 1.5.
# --retry 3: retries timeouts, 429 and 5xx, honoring Retry-After.
# -o response.json keeps only the final attempt's body.
# One Idempotency-Key per request, reused on every retry, so a retried call is never charged twice.
IDEMPOTENCY_KEY=$(od -An -N16 -tx1 /dev/urandom | tr -d ' \n')
curl -sS --max-time 10 --retry 3 -o response.json \
-H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
-H "Idempotency-Key: $IDEMPOTENCY_KEY" \
"https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/google_trends/trending?location=DE&hours=24" && cat response.json# GET /v1/google_trends/trending: 5 credits per call. Cache hits are free and failed calls are refunded.
# Check the price first for 0 credits: add dry_run=1 to the query. Nothing is fetched or charged.
import os
import random
import time
import uuid
import requests
API_KEY = os.environ.get("SOCIALCRAWL_API_KEY", "YOUR_API_KEY")
TIMEOUT_S = 10 # this endpoint's measured p99 latency x 1.5.
MAX_RETRIES = 3
URL = "https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/google_trends/trending"
def backoff(attempt):
# Exponential backoff with jitter: about 1 s, 2 s, then 4 s.
return 2 ** attempt * (0.5 + random.random() / 2)
def socialcrawl(params):
# One Idempotency-Key per request, reused on every retry, so a retried call is never charged twice.
idempotency_key = str(uuid.uuid4())
for attempt in range(MAX_RETRIES + 1):
try:
res = requests.get(
URL,
params=params,
headers={"x-api-key": API_KEY, "Idempotency-Key": idempotency_key},
timeout=TIMEOUT_S,
)
body = res.json()
except (requests.RequestException, ValueError):
# A timeout, a dropped connection or a non-JSON gateway page: retry with the same key.
if attempt == MAX_RETRIES:
raise
time.sleep(backoff(attempt))
continue
if body["success"]:
return body
error = body["error"]
# Branch on error["type"], never on the message text.
if error["type"] == "RESOURCE_NOT_FOUND":
return None # refunded: nothing to read
retry_after = res.headers.get("Retry-After")
# SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE without Retry-After is a withdrawn endpoint: permanent.
permanent = error["type"] == "SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE" and retry_after is None
if not error.get("retryable") or permanent or attempt == MAX_RETRIES:
raise RuntimeError(f"{error['type']}: {error['message']} (request_id {body['request_id']})")
# Retry-After (seconds) wins; otherwise back off.
time.sleep(float(retry_after) if retry_after else backoff(attempt))
params = {
"location": "DE",
"hours": "24",
}
body = socialcrawl(params)
if body is not None:
print(body["data"])// GET /v1/google_trends/trending: 5 credits per call. Cache hits are free and failed calls are refunded.
// Check the price first for 0 credits: add dry_run=1 to the query. Nothing is fetched or charged.
const API_KEY = process.env.SOCIALCRAWL_API_KEY ?? "YOUR_API_KEY";
const TIMEOUT_MS = 10_000; // this endpoint's measured p99 latency x 1.5.
const MAX_RETRIES = 3;
type Page = { next_cursor: string | null; has_more: boolean };
type SocialCrawlResponse =
| { success: true; data: any; pagination?: Page; credits_used: number; request_id: string }
| { success: false; error: { type: string; message: string; retryable: boolean }; request_id: string };
const sleep = (ms: number) => new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
// Exponential backoff with jitter: about 1 s, 2 s, then 4 s.
const backoffMs = (attempt: number) => 2 ** attempt * 1000 * (0.5 + Math.random() / 2);
async function socialcrawl(url: URL) {
// One Idempotency-Key per request, reused on every retry, so a retried call is never charged twice.
const idempotencyKey = crypto.randomUUID();
for (let attempt = 0; ; attempt++) {
let res: Response;
let body: SocialCrawlResponse;
try {
res = await fetch(url, {
headers: {
"x-api-key": API_KEY,
"Idempotency-Key": idempotencyKey,
},
signal: AbortSignal.timeout(TIMEOUT_MS),
});
body = (await res.json()) as SocialCrawlResponse;
} catch (error) {
// A timeout, a dropped connection or a non-JSON gateway page: retry with the same key.
if (attempt >= MAX_RETRIES) throw error;
await sleep(backoffMs(attempt));
continue;
}
if (body.success) return body;
// Branch on error.type, never on the message text.
if (body.error.type === "RESOURCE_NOT_FOUND") return null; // refunded: nothing to read
const retryAfter = res.headers.get("Retry-After");
// SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE without Retry-After is a withdrawn endpoint: permanent.
const permanent = body.error.type === "SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE" && retryAfter === null;
if (!body.error.retryable || permanent || attempt >= MAX_RETRIES) {
throw new Error(`${body.error.type}: ${body.error.message} (request_id ${body.request_id})`);
}
// Retry-After (seconds) wins; otherwise back off.
await sleep(retryAfter ? Number(retryAfter) * 1000 : backoffMs(attempt));
}
}
const url = new URL("https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/google_trends/trending");
url.searchParams.set("location", "DE");
url.searchParams.set("hours", "24");
const body = await socialcrawl(url);
if (body) console.log(body.data);Parameters
| Parameter | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| location | Yes | Where to read trends. An ISO country code ('DE', 'US', 'KR'), its English name ('Germany'), or an ISO 3166-2 region inside it ('DE-BY', 'US-CA', 'GB-SCT'). Google covers 125 countries and has no worldwide list; a country it does not cover is rejected with a free 400. |
| hours | No | Only trends that started in the past 4, 24, 48 or 168 hours (7 days). Defaults to 24. (4 | 24 | 48 | 168) |
| category | No | Keep trends Google tagged with this category: autos_and_vehicles, beauty_and_fashion, business_and_finance, climate, entertainment, food_and_drink, games, health, hobbies_and_leisure, jobs_and_education, law_and_government, other, pets_and_animals, politics, science, shopping, sports, technology, or travel_and_transportation. These are Trending Now's categories, not the numeric codes /v1/google_trends/explore takes. Defaults to every category. (autos_and_vehicles | beauty_and_fashion | business_and_finance | entertainment | food_and_drink | games | health | hobbies_and_leisure | jobs_and_education | law_and_government | other | pets_and_animals | politics | science | shopping | sports | technology | travel_and_transportation | climate) |
| status | No | `active` keeps only trends that are still trending. Defaults to `all`, which also returns trends that have already ended inside the window. (all | active) |
| sort | No | relevance (Google's own order, the default), search_volume (largest first), recency (most recently started first), or title (A to Z). (relevance | search_volume | recency | title) |
| limit | No | How many trends to return after filtering and sorting, 1 to 500. Defaults to 100. |
What does the Google Trends Trending API return?
This example shows the endpoint's response shape and fields. Values are illustrative; this is not a live capture.
Example response
{
"success": true,
"data": {
"items": [
{
"rank": 1,
"title": "judith und mel",
"search_volume": 50000,
"increase_percent": 1000,
"started_at": "2026-09-12T11:10:00.000Z",
"ended_at": null,
"active": true,
"categories": [
"entertainment"
],
"breakdown": [
"mel jersey",
"t online"
],
"news": [
{
"title": "Nach Herzinfarkt und Hausbrand: Schlagerstar schwer gestürzt",
"url": "https://www.t-online.de/unterhaltung/stars/id_101432554/judith-und-mel-nach-herzinfarkt-und-hausbrand-schlagerstar-gestuerzt.html",
"source": "T-Online",
"domain": "t-online.de",
"image_url": null,
"published_at": "2026-09-12T09:44:47.000Z"
}
]
}
],
"total": 431
}
}Illustrative fixture for the documented response shape. Values are examples, not a production capture.
How does the Google Trends Trending API work?
Send a GET request with your API key and get back clean, structured JSON in our unified schema. Supported computed fields are populated when the source provides the required inputs.
Method
GET
Response
JSON
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import requests
response = requests.get(
'https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/tiktok/profile',
params={'handle': 'charlidamelio'},
headers={'x-api-key': 'sc_YOUR_API_KEY'}
)
data = response.json(){
"success": true,
"platform": "tiktok",
"data": {
"author": {
"username": "charlidamelio",
"followers": 152400000
},
"engagement": {
"likes": 12400000000,
"engagement_rate": 0.087
},
"metadata": {
"language": "en",
"content_category": "lifestyle"
}
}
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