# Is there an official Google Trends API? Yes, as an alpha with access by application

> Yes, Google has an official Google Trends API: Google announced it as an alpha on July 24, 2025, and opens access by application to a limited number of developers. The alpha returns consistently scaled search interest for a rolling 1,800-day window up to 2 days ago, with daily, weekly, monthly and yearly aggregations and region and sub-region data.

Canonical: https://kwerix.com/trends/official-api/

## What is the official Google Trends API?

The official Google Trends API is Google's programmatic access to Google Trends data, announced on the Google Search Central Blog on July 24, 2025 by Daniel Waisberg and Hadas Jacobi of the Google Trends team. Google released it as an alpha to verify functionality and gather feedback from a limited set of developers.

## What data does the official Google Trends API return?

The official Google Trends API returns 4 kinds of data, according to Google's announcement.

1. **Consistently scaled search interest**: a scaling method that stays the same across requests, so data from several requests can be joined, compared and merged.
2. **A rolling window of 1,800 days**, about 5 years, with data up to 2 days ago.
3. **Daily, weekly, monthly and yearly aggregations.**
4. **Region and sub-region data**, following the ISO 3166-2 standard.

The consistently scaled data still reflects search interest, not absolute numbers.

## How to get access to the official Google Trends API

Access to the official Google Trends API goes through an application form on Google Search Central. Google prioritizes developers who know what they want to do, can start soon and will give direct feedback, and it opens access on a rolling basis to a limited number of developers.

## Official Google Trends API vs unofficial options

The official Google Trends API and the unofficial options differ in 3 criteria.

| Option | Access | Scale across requests | Status (September 2026) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Official Google Trends API | By application | Consistent across requests | Alpha |
| pytrends | Free, open source | Per request, up to 5 terms | Archived on April 17, 2025 |
| Paid APIs (Kwerix, SerpApi, DataForSEO) | Sign-up, pay per use or per month | Per request; Kwerix adds a shared anchor | Available |

## How to get Google Trends data while the alpha is closed

Google Trends data is available today through the website and through APIs that read it, while the official alpha stays closed to most developers. The [Google Trends index](/trends/index/) guide explains how to read the values any of them return.

## Official Google Trends API FAQ

## Frequently asked questions

### Does Google publish a price for the official Google Trends API?

No. Google has not published pricing for the Google Trends API alpha; the announcement describes the data and the application process only.

### Does the official Google Trends API return search volumes?

No. Google says the consistently scaled numbers reflect search interest, not absolute search numbers.

### Can anyone use the official Google Trends API today?

No. Google opens the alpha on a rolling basis to a limited number of developers who apply with a use case and give feedback.

## Sources

- [Google Search Central Blog (July 24, 2025). Introducing the Google Trends API (alpha)](https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2025/07/trends-api)
- [Google Search Central. Google Trends API alpha: apply to be an alpha tester](https://developers.google.com/search/apis/trends)
- [GeneralMills. pytrends repository (archived April 17, 2025)](https://github.com/GeneralMills/pytrends)