Trending searches

Fetch what is trending right now, and choose between the RPC and RSS backends — one gives growth figures, the other the news articles behind each trend.

JavaScript Python

Google exposes trending searches two ways. They are not interchangeable, so backend lets you pick:

	`"rpc"` (`batchexecute`)	`"rss"` (feed)
items	50	10
payload	~2 KB JSON	~21 KB XML
growth % and volume	✅	❌ — buckets like `"2000+"`
news articles	❌	✅
`window` selection	✅	ignored by Google
worldwide	✅	❌ country only

rss = tf.trending_now(Region.US, backend="rss")
rss.source  # "rss"
rss.results[0].articles
# [TrendingArticle(title='...', url='https://...', source='Buffalo News', picture='https://...')]

"auto" (the default) tries the RPC and falls back to the feed. The RPC comes first deliberately: it returns five times the items with real growth figures, so defaulting to RSS would quietly degrade results. Reach for "rss" when you want the articles — that is the one thing the RPC cannot give you — or as a second opinion if the RPC id ever goes stale.

Note that the feed is not a lighter path despite being a feed, and Google ignores hours, sort and count on it: it always returns the same 10 entries.

Google retired the hottrends/visualize/internal/data endpoint, along with api/dailytrends and api/realtimetrends; all three now return HTTP 404. trending_now() therefore runs on the batchexecute RPC that trends.google.com itself uses, which returns more than the old endpoint did:

trending = tf.trending_now(Region.US)
for item in trending.results:
    print(item.title, item.growth, item.volume, item.traffic)
    # "fifa world cup 2026"  3650  6  "+3,650%"

growth is the percentage rise over the window, volume a relative search-volume index.
Any country code works, not a fixed list, and worldwide is now allowed (and the default).
articles is always empty — this endpoint carries no article links.
No cookie is needed, and the RPC answers on IPs that get a 429 from the widgetdata endpoints, so trending_now() often works where the other queries do not.

Pass window=TRENDING_WINDOW_TOP for the highest-volume searches instead of the fastest-growing ones. window is an undocumented Google parameter; other integers between 4 and 12 also return data over varying recency windows.

Trending searches

Trending backends: RPC and RSS

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