Every Google trending search, all day, 30 countries

Who it's for

Anyone who needs to know what people are searching for right now, country by country, without polling Google every few minutes.

Try it

Pick up to 5 countries (ISO-2 codes). Prefilled with the US and the UK.

Real sample output

Captured from a live call to this API (first 3 of the results shown).

{
  "results": [
    {
      "geo": "US",
      "country": "United States",
      "rank": 8,
      "query": "flash flood warning",
      "approxTraffic": "500+",
      "traffic": 500,
      "started": "2026-10-01T04:00:00Z",
      "firstSeenToday": "2026-10-01T04:29:53Z",
      "snapshotsToday": 3,
      "alsoTrendingIn": [],
      "news": [
        {
          "title": "Conservative Freedom Fest with Kid Rock canceled after only 6 VIP tickets sell",
          "url": "https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2026/09/22/freedom-fest-cancelled-low-vip-ticket-sales/91894276007/",
          "source": "USA Today"
        },
        {
          "title": "Eric Deters cancels Freedom Fest amid low VIP ticket sales",
          "url": "https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2026/09/21/eric-deters-cancels-freedom-fest-amid-low-vip-ticket-sales/91871302007/",
          "source": "Cincinnati Enquirer"
        },
        {
          "title": "Kid Rock MAGAFest Goes Bust, Wendy's Goes Emo and More Top Stories of the Week",
          "url": "https://metalinjection.net/injection-reflection/kid-rock-magafest-wendys-top-stories-of-the-week",
          "source": "Metal Injection"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "geo": "GB",
      "country": "United Kingdom",
      "rank": 1,
      "query": "strait of hormuz",
      "approxTraffic": "2000+",
      "traffic": 2000,
      "started": "2026-10-01T04:40:00Z",
      "firstSeenToday": "2026-10-01T04:59:59Z",
      "snapshotsToday": 1,
      "alsoTrendingIn": [
        "ZA"
      ],
      "news": [
        {
          "title": "Crude oil exports through the Strait of Hormuz hit prewar levels, but fuel shipments remain constrained",
          "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/30/iran-war-strait-hormuz-gulf-oil-fuel.html",
          "source": "CNBC"
        },
        {
          "title": "Is Iran losing its leverage over the Strait of Hormuz?",
          "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/30/economic-war-is-iran-losing-its-leverage-over-the-strait-of-hormuz",
          "source": "Al Jazeera"
        },
        {
          "title": "Oil Prices Fall as Gulf Crude Exports Recover",
          "url": "https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/oil-prices-rise-as-u-s-iran-talks-remain-uncertain-1a33ff00",
          "source": "WSJ"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "geo": "GB",
      "country": "United Kingdom",
      "rank": 7,
      "query": "ind vs sl",
      "approxTraffic": "5000+",
      "traffic": 5000,
      "started": "2026-10-01T03:40:00Z",
      "firstSeenToday": "2026-10-01T04:29:53Z",
      "snapshotsToday": 3,
      "alsoTrendingIn": [
        "AU",
        "CA",
        "DE",
        "NZ"
      ],
      "news": [
        {
          "title": "India vs Sri Lanka, 2nd Semi-Final, Asian Games 2026 Live Cricket Stream, live scores, ball-by-ball commentary, highlights, videos, news, and more in USA & Canada",
          "url": "https://www.cricbuzz.com/live-cricket-scores/171060/ind-vs-sl-2nd-semi-final-asian-games-2026",
          "source": "Cricbuzz"
        },
        {
          "title": "India vs. Sri Lanka live win probability, score, chances of victory for Asian Games 2026 semi-final",
          "url": "https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/india-vs-sri-lanka-live-034529771.html",
          "source": "Yahoo Sports"
        },
        {
          "title": "Sri Lanka and Bangladesh advance as rain washes out cricket again",
          "url": "https://www.reuters.com/sports/cricket/sri-lanka-bangladesh-advance-rain-washes-out-cricket-again-2026-09-29/",
          "source": "Reuters"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "count": 3,
  "snapshots": {
    "US": {
      "asOf": "2026-10-01T04:59:59Z",
      "ageMinutes": 2
    },
    "GB": {
      "asOf": "2026-10-01T04:59:59Z",
      "ageMinutes": 2
    }
  },
  "source": "Google Trends \"Trending now\" public RSS feed (trends.google.com/trending/rss), polled about every 15 minutes per country",
  "limits": {
    "requestsPerMinutePerIp": 10,
    "countriesPerCall": 5,
    "historyDays": 30,
    "timeoutSeconds": 15
  }
}

Limits, plainly

Free and rate limited so it stays fast for everyone. Interest over time for your own keywords (rising/falling verdict, related and breakout searches, top regions) is a different job: the Swellmeter tool on the Apify Store does it per keyword (https://apify.com/cybermax/google-trends).

• Up to 5 countries per call; 10 calls a minute per IP on the free tier.
• Free tier: 50 calls a day per IP, no key. Paid keys from $5 (one-time pack) or $19/month (see Get an API key).
• Each API call counts once, whatever the number of rows. /api/countries is free. Failed calls are not counted.
• Source: Google's public "Trending now" RSS feed, which lists the 10 newest trending searches per country. We read each country about every 15 minutes and keep what scrolls off: the day list and 30 days of history (history starts 1 Oct 2026). Traffic is Google's own rounded lower bound (e.g. "2000+").
• Not affiliated with Google. Keyword interest-over-time is not in this API (see the Apify tool).

How the price compares

Per call (one call = one country list, up to 5 countries). Rival prices were read from their public pricing pages on 1 Oct 2026.

SerpApi and the Apify tools fetch Google live on each call; Swellmeter answers from its own snapshots, read about every 15 minutes per country, and adds what the live feed drops: the full day list, first seen, peak traffic, cross-country topics and 30 days of history.

Need interest over time for your own keywords?

The Swellmeter tool on the Apify Store takes any keywords and returns a rising/falling/spiking verdict with % change, peak, breakout searches and top regions from Google Trends, with a monitor mode for weekly checks.

Get an API key

Google trending searches API for 30 countries with the history Google's feed drops: the newest trending searches per country (rank, approximate traffic, start time, news), every topic of the day with first/last seen and peak traffic, 30 days of history, searches trending in several countries at once, and a topic search. Keys work on the REST API and the MCP server.

14-day money-back promise: if it doesn't work as described, email us within 14 days and we fix it or refund you in full. Refund terms.

Pay with card, Apple Pay, Google Pay or Link through Stripe Checkout (sales tax/VAT handled by Stripe). Your key appears on the page you return to right after checkout: save it. Manage or cancel any time at swellmeter-api.cybermax-tools.workers.dev/manage. Send it as x-api-key: YOUR_KEY (or Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY, which MCP clients support). Check usage at /key. Failed calls are not counted. Trending-now APIs charge per search: SerpApi from $25/month for 1,000 searches ($75/month for 5,000); on the Apify Store data_xplorer/google-trends-trending-now is $0.001 per result + $0.02 per run and headply/google-trends-trending-now $0.0015 per trending search (checked 1 Oct 2026). Swellmeter Trending: $5 pay-as-you-go for 1,500 calls (no expiry) or Watcher $19/month for 6,000 calls (8 countries every hour), with day lists, first seen, peak traffic and 30 days of history in the same answers.

curl -s "https://swellmeter-api.cybermax-tools.workers.dev/api/trending?..." -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY"

# MCP (Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code)
{ "mcpServers": { "swellmeter-api": { "type": "http", "url": "https://swellmeter-api.cybermax-tools.workers.dev/mcp",
  "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_KEY" } } } }

# Usage so far
curl -s https://swellmeter-api.cybermax-tools.workers.dev/key -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY"

Use the API

JSON over HTTPS, CORS enabled, no key. GET for quick calls, POST a JSON body for lists. Spec: openapi.json · llms.txt

curl -s "https://swellmeter-api.cybermax-tools.workers.dev/api/trending?geo=US%2CGB&limit=10"

# lists: POST a JSON body
curl -s -X POST https://swellmeter-api.cybermax-tools.workers.dev/api/trending \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"geo":"US,DE","limit":5}'

import requests

r = requests.post("https://swellmeter-api.cybermax-tools.workers.dev/api/trending",
                  json={"geo":"US,DE","limit":5}, timeout=30)
r.raise_for_status()
for row in r.json()["results"]:
    print(row)

Endpoints: /api/trending what is trending right now, per country · /api/day everything that trended in a country on one day (today or the last 30 days) · /api/global searches trending in several countries at once · /api/topic did a topic trend in the last 30 days? where and when? · /api/countries the 30 countries, their last poll time and history start (not metered)

Add it to your AI agent (MCP)

A remote MCP server at https://swellmeter-api.cybermax-tools.workers.dev/mcp (streamable HTTP, no auth). Read-only tools with JSON schemas, so agents know exactly what to send.

// Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, any MCP client (remote, no key)
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "swellmeter-api": { "type": "http", "url": "https://swellmeter-api.cybermax-tools.workers.dev/mcp" }
  }
}

# Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http swellmeter-api https://swellmeter-api.cybermax-tools.workers.dev/mcp

# Tools: trending_now, trending_day, cross_country_trends, topic_history, countries
# e.g. trending_now({"geo":"US"})

• trending_now
  Newest Google trending searches for 1-5 countries (ISO-2 codes): query, approximate traffic, start time, first seen today, other countries where it trends, news links.
• trending_day
  Every trending search seen on one UTC day (today or the last 30 days) for 1-5 countries, biggest first, with first/last seen, peak traffic and news.
• cross_country_trends
  Topics trending right now in 2+ of the 30 countries, most countries first.
• topic_history
  Search the last 30 days of trending searches for a topic; returns each matching search with the countries, first seen, last day seen and peak traffic.
• countries
  The 30 country codes, names and last read time.

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