Google Trends Scraper

Name: Google Trends Scraper
Author: RalfIJ

by RalfIJversion 1.0.0i★ –iRuns in the cloud

Registry nameio.github.RalfIJ/google-trends

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Overview

Description from the maker (original English)

Google Trends for any number of keywords on one scale: interest over time, regions, rising queries.

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Connection: Runs in the cloud
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Run this in your terminal

claude mcp add --transport http google-trends 'https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=ralfij/google-trends-scraper' --header 'Authorization: your-value'

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Open in Cursor

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Paste into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "google-trends": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=ralfij/google-trends-scraper",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

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Open in VS Code

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .vscode/mcp.json in your project

{
  "servers": {
    "google-trends": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=ralfij/google-trends-scraper",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

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Optional: "Bearer ". MCP clients that support OAuth can sign in to Apify instead. Runs are billed to your Apify account.

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Is Google Trends Scraper safe?

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What keys or codes does it need?

You need to fill in: Authorization

Does it run on my computer or in the cloud?

It runs in the maker’s cloud. Connect over the internet with nothing to install, but what you send passes through the maker’s servers.

Is it still maintained?

The GitHub repo last changed –, and the latest version (1.0.0) reached the registry 27 days ago.

Which apps can use it?

Apps that support MCP, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code. It connects by URL, so apps that accept remote MCP servers work too, such as ChatGPT in developer mode.

What can I use instead?

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Google Trends API for Python (a pytrends alternative)

Get Google Trends data into Python: interest over time, interest by region, top and rising related searches, and simple trend metrics. You can also compare 10, 50 or 100+ keywords on one scale. The Google Trends website stops at 8 (5 in classic Explore).

pytrends was archived in April 2025 and often fails with 429 Too Many Requests. Google announced an official Trends API in July 2025, but it is an alpha with limited, application-based access. These examples use a hosted scraper instead, the Google Trends Scraper on Apify, which deals with Google's session cookies and rate limits for you.

Tutorial: Google Trends in Python without pytrends, and how to compare more keywords than Google allows. It covers the two endpoints behind the website, the trick for linking comparisons, and what the data looks like.

*Example output: search interest in the Programming category fell 40-68% for most languages between 2021 and 2026. Made with examples/compare_keywords.py and matplotlib.*

Quick start

Create a free Apify account. The free plan includes $5 of credit every month, which covers about 2,500 keywords. No credit card needed.
Copy your API token from Settings > API & Integrations in Apify Console.
Run an example:

pip install -r requirements.txt

export APIFY_TOKEN=your-token # Windows: set APIFY_TOKEN=your-token python examples/compare_keywords.py

keyword share % average trend java 29.4 63.7 falling (-48.8%) c++ 23.8 51.6 stable (-7.1%) python 15.8 34.3 falling (-43.7%) ...

Examples

File	What it does
`examples/compare_keywords.py`	Compares 10 keywords on one shared scale, prints share of search and trend, and saves a CSV
`examples/keyword_report.py`	Trend, peak, busiest month, top regions and rising searches per keyword
`examples/plot_trends.py`	Plots interest over time for several keywords with matplotlib
`examples/raw_endpoints.py`	The two JSON endpoints behind trends.google.com, with no library at all. Good for a few keywords.

sample-output/programming-languages-5y.csv shows the CSV from compare_keywords.py.

What you get per keyword

interestOverTime: the full time series (0-100), with the unfinished last week or day marked partial
interestByRegion: countries, states or regions where the keyword is most popular
relatedQueriesTop and relatedQueriesRising, including breakouts
averageInterest, latestInterest, peakInterest, peakDate
trend (rising, falling or stable) and trendChangePercent: the last quarter of the period against the first quarter
busiestMonth for periods of about a year or longer
shareOfSearch when you compare keywords on one shared scale

How comparing many keywords works

Google's Trends API compares at most 5 keywords per request (the website shows up to 8) and scales each request so its highest point is 100. To compare more, the scraper:

requests the keywords in groups of 5;
compares the most searched keyword of each group (the group "leader") with the other leaders, 5 at a time with one leader of overlap, so any number of groups can be chained;
rescales every group through its leader, then rescales everything so the highest point overall is 100.

Google rounds to whole numbers, so a tiny keyword next to a huge one can still show as 0. Compare keywords of a similar size for the best precision.

Use it from AI assistants (MCP)

To let Claude, Cursor, VS Code or another MCP client look up Google Trends for you, add this MCP server URL: https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=ralfij/google-trends-scraper. Sign in to Apify when the client asks, or send your Apify API token as Authorization: Bearer . Runs are billed to your own Apify account.

Notes

I built the Google Trends Scraper used in these examples, so keep that in mind. raw_endpoints.py shows how to do it yourself.
Pricing is per keyword with no subscription; see the actor page. More ready-made searches are on its example tasks.
Not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Google. Google Trends is a trademark of Google LLC.

License

MIT

Google Trends Scraper

Overview

PopNx MCP’s three pillars

What you can do with it

Install

Before you install

Values you fill in

What it can do

Basic checksi

Maker matches the repo

Still maintained

Has a licence

Endpoint responds

Sign-in with OAuth

No hidden instructions in tool descriptions

Compared with others in Otheri

Common questions

Alternatives

Spec Driven Development

Remote Desktop Commander

AvaHR

README from the maker

Google Trends API for Python (a pytrends alternative)

Quick start

Examples

What you get per keyword

How comparing many keywords works

Use it from AI assistants (MCP)

Notes

License