# Extracting Google Trends Trending Now data: what is trending, with volume buckets

> Google Trends Trending Now lists the searches that are rising fastest in a country right now, each with Google's approximate search volume bucket, such as 20,000+ or 5M+. The bucket covers the whole trend, not one keyword. An API run returns every trending search for any country and window, at $0.50 per 1,000 trends.

Canonical: https://kwerix.com/trends/trending/

## What is Google Trends Trending Now?

Google Trends Trending Now is the page of Google Trends that lists the searches rising fastest in a country right now. Each trend groups related searches, carries an approximate volume bucket and belongs to one or more categories, such as Sports or Technology.

## What does the Trending Now volume bucket mean?

The Trending Now volume bucket is Google's approximate count of searches for a trend, shown as a floor such as 500+, 20,000+ or 5M+. The Google Trends feed for the United States listed «california flooding» at 20,000+ and «strait of hormuz news» at 5,000+ on September 30, 2026. The bucket counts searches for the trend as a whole, so it is not the search volume of one keyword.

## What data does each Trending Now row carry?

Each Trending Now row carries 7 fields in the Google Trends API.

1. **keyword**: the trend's main search.
2. **searchVolume** and **searchVolumeLabel**: the bucket, such as 5000000 and «5M+».
3. **increasePct**: the increase in percent.
4. **categories**: Google's categories for the trend.
5. **startedAt** and **endedAt**: when the trend started and ended.
6. **isActive**: whether the trend is still rising.
7. **relatedQueries**: the related searches grouped into the trend.

## How to extract Trending Now data via API

There are 3 steps to extract Trending Now data via the Google Trends API.

1. **Set** `mode` to `trending` and list the countries in `trendingGeos`.
2. **Choose** the window in `trendingHours`: 4, 24, 48 or 168 hours.
3. **Filter** with `trendingCategories`, `trendingActiveOnly` or `maxTrendingPerGeo`.

```json
{
  "mode": "trending",
  "trendingGeos": ["US", "GB", "ES"],
  "trendingHours": "24",
  "trendingCategories": ["Sports", "Technology"]
}
```

Trending Now costs $0.50 per 1,000 trends, so the United States over 24 hours, about 300 trends, costs about $0.15.

## Trending Now vs related queries

Trending Now vs related queries is a choice of scope: Trending Now covers a whole country with no keyword, while [Google Trends related queries](/trends/queries/) grow around a keyword you choose. Newsrooms watch the first; SEO teams planning topics read the second.

## Google Trends Trending Now FAQ

## Frequently asked questions

### Is the Trending Now volume the search volume of a keyword?

No. The volume bucket is Google's approximate count of searches for the whole trend, which groups several related searches.

### How many trends does Google show for the United States?

About 300 trends for the last 24 hours and about 1,900 for the last 7 days, according to the Kwerix Google Trends API README.

## Sources

- [Google Trends, Trending Now feed, United States (captured September 30, 2026)](https://trends.google.com/trending/rss?geo=US)
- [Kwerix, Google Trends API & Scraper (README: Trending Now mode)](https://apify.com/kwerix/google-trends-api)