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Google Trends API in Python

Today's trending searches for a country, with traffic band and attached news stories. One POST from Python with the input, rows back as JSON with 10 fields, $0.0005 per delivered trend. No proxies or parsers to maintain.

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A Python requests snippet that posts { — A Python requests call to the google_trends collector returns one dict per trend, at $0.0005 each.

First call

Install, call, read the rows.

pip install requests

The only dependency.

import os, requests

r = requests.post(
    "https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/google_trends/run",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['QD_API_KEY']}"},
    json={
        "country": "us",
        "max_results": 10,
    },
    timeout=120,
)
r.raise_for_status()
run = r.json()["payload"]
print(run["count"], "rows,", run["cost"]["usd"], "USD")
for row in run["results"]:
    print(row.get("query"), row.get("approx_traffic"), row.get("published"), row.get("image"))

Python: one Google Trends — trending now run (US trending), printing query, approx_traffic, published, image

The key comes from an environment variable, never from the code. The run answers in the same request when it finishes in time; payload.results holds the rows and payload.cost what they cost.

Request parameters

What the collector takes.

Input of the Google Trends — trending now collector
Parameter	Type	Required	Meaning
`country`	string	no	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code — which country's trending feed to read (default us).
`max_results`	integer	no (default 10)	How many trends to deliver at most (1–20). You pay only for delivered trends.

Response fields

10 fields per trend.

Fields of each row (trend)
Field	Type	What it holds
`rank`	integer	Position in today's feed.
`query`	string	The trending search query.
`approx_traffic`	string, nullable	Google's traffic band, e.g. "1000+".
`published`	string, nullable	When Google surfaced the trend.
`image`	string, nullable	Representative image URL.
`articles`	object[]	News stories attached to the trend ({ title, url, source }).
`country`	string	Country the feed was read for.
`traffic_min`	integer, nullable	approx_traffic as a number ("2000+" → 2000).
`published_at`	string, nullable	published as an ISO 8601 timestamp.
`article_count`	integer	How many stories are attached.

Add ?format=csv to the runs endpoint to get the same rows as CSV.

Long runs

Run in the background, then poll.

A run that needs more time can go to the background: send "async": true, get 202 with the run id, and poll the runs endpoint until the status is done. Reading a run is free.

import os, time, requests

H = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['QD_API_KEY']}"}
r = requests.post("https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/google_trends/run", headers=H,
                  json={**{"country":"us","max_results":10}, "async": True}, timeout=30)
run_id = r.json()["payload"]["run_id"]
while True:
    run = requests.get(f"https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/runs/{run_id}", headers=H, timeout=30).json()["payload"]
    if run["status"] in ("done", "failed"):
        break
    time.sleep(5)
print(run["status"], run["count"])

Python: background run and polling

Errors

What can come back, and what is billed.

Collector run errors
Status	Meaning	Billed
`400`	The input does not match the collector (`payload.errors`)	No
`401`	Missing or wrong API key	No
`402`	Balance and free credit do not cover the run: top up	No
`422`	The input can never resolve; retrying the same input cannot help	No
`424`	The run failed at the source (blocked, timed out, layout changed); safe to retry	No
`429`	Rate limit or a per-account brake; wait for `Retry-After`	No

Only delivered rows are billed: a run that delivers nothing costs nothing.

Price

$0.0005 per delivered trend.

What Google Trends — trending now rows cost at list price
Rows	Cost
1	$0.0005
1,000	$0.50
10,000	$5.00

Up to 20 trends per run; split larger jobs into several runs. The $2 free credit every month covers about 4,000 trends. No subscription; paid tiers lower the unit price. All collector prices: collector pricing.

Before you run it

Questions developers ask

Is there a free Google Trends — trending now API?

Every account gets $2 of free usage each month, about 4,000 trends of this collector at $0.0005 each, with no card.

Do I have to handle proxies, retries or blocks?

No. The collector runs on our network and handles them; a run blocked at the source returns 424 and is not billed.

How many rows can one run return?

Up to 20 trends per run (the max_results input, where the collector has one).

Can an AI agent run it?

Yes: the MCP server exposes it as the run_collector tool, with the same input and price. See the MCP server.

Run it on the free credit.

Create an API key, export it as QD_API_KEY and run the example. $0.0005 per delivered trend, no subscription.

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