## google_trends/trending

`GET /v1/google_trends/trending`

Trending searches, approximate volumes, timing, categories, breakdowns and up to three related articles, read from the public Trending Now page.

*Trending searches*

| Parameter | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `location` | yes | Country or region code — e.g. `DE` |
| `hours` | no | 4, 24, 48 or 168 — e.g. `24` |
| `category` | no | Category ID or page category name — e.g. `all` |
| `status` | no | all, active or ended — e.g. `all` |
| `sort` | no | relevance, volume, recency or title — e.g. `relevance` |
| `limit` | no | Whole number from 1 to 100 — e.g. `20` |
| `dry_run` | no | Read a zero-credit estimate without fetching sources, running AI, or reserving credits. Cache status is a snapshot, not a guarantee at execution. — e.g. `1` |

**Cost:** 2 credits at list price per successful uncached response; variable-cost operations may quote or settle a different charge. Confirmed uncharged or refunded failures report zero. Pending reconciliation can report credits_used:null; retain request_id and the original idempotency key.

```bash
curl "https://www.monocrawl.com/v1/google_trends/trending?location=DE" \
  -H "x-api-key: mn_your_key_here"
```

### Response data

Illustrative abbreviated data; documented core fields are optional and may be null. Additional source fields are allowed.

```json
{
  "category": "example",
  "checked_at": "2026-09-01T12:00:00Z",
  "count": 0,
  "dropped": 0,
  "has_more": false,
  "hours": 0,
  "items": [
    {
      "active": false,
      "breakdown": [
        "example"
      ],
      "categories": [
        "example"
      ],
      "category_ids": [
        0
      ],
      "increase_percent": 0,
      "news": [
        {}
      ],
      "rank": 0,
      "search_volume": 0,
      "started_at": "2026-09-01T12:00:00Z",
      "title": "example"
    }
  ],
  "location": "example",
  "sort": "example",
  "status": "example",
  "total": 0
}
```

[Field reference](https://www.monocrawl.com/docs/endpoints/google_trends/trending#response) · [JSON Schema for response.data](https://www.monocrawl.com/schemas/google_trends/trending.json)