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get_google_trends

get_google_trends(keywords, timeframe, geo, category, gprop)

Description

GET Google Trends data

Params

Param Description
destination_table Fully qualified destination table (PROJECT.DATASET.TABLE)
keywords Array of one to five search terms (a search term can be an expression)
start_month First month (YYYY-MM) to load data from
geo Two letter country abbreviation. For example United States is 'US'. Defaults to World. More detail available for States/Provinces by specifying additional abbreviations. For example: Alabama would be 'US-AL'. For example: England would be 'GB-ENG'
category Category to narrow results. Find available categories by inspecting the url when manually using Google Trends. The category starts after cat= and ends before the next & or view this wiki page containing all available categories. For example: "https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=pizza&cat=71". '71' is the category. Defaults to no category
gprop What Google property to filter to. Example 'images'. Defaults to web searches. Can be images, news, youtube or froogle (for Google Shopping results)

This function may return []

Google Trends put some quotas to request their API. For this reason, this function may sometimes return []. It is advised to call it several times a day if you want to make sure to retrieve the data.

Usage

Call or Deploy get_google_trends ?
Call get_google_trends directly

The easiest way to use bigfunctions

  • get_google_trends function is deployed in 39 public datasets for all of the 39 BigQuery regions.
  • It can be called by anyone. Just copy / paste examples below in your BigQuery console. It just works!
  • (You need to use the dataset in the same region as your datasets otherwise you may have a function not found error)

Public BigFunctions Datasets

Region Dataset
eu bigfunctions.eu
us bigfunctions.us
europe-west1 bigfunctions.europe_west1
asia-east1 bigfunctions.asia_east1
... ...
Deploy get_google_trends in your project

Why deploy?

  • You may prefer to deploy get_google_trends in your own project to build and manage your own catalog of functions.
  • This is particularly useful if you want to create private functions (for example calling your internal APIs).
  • Get started by reading the framework page

Deployment

get_google_trends function can be deployed with:

pip install bigfunctions
bigfun get get_google_trends
bigfun deploy get_google_trends

Examples

GET trends for chaise and fauteuil

select bigfunctions.eu.get_google_trends("chaise, fauteuil", "2025-01-01 2025-01-07", "FR", 11, null)

select bigfunctions.us.get_google_trends("chaise, fauteuil", "2025-01-01 2025-01-07", "FR", 11, null)

select bigfunctions.europe_west1.get_google_trends("chaise, fauteuil", "2025-01-01 2025-01-07", "FR", 11, null)

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| trends                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| [
  {"date":"2019-12-01T00:00:00", "keyword": "chaise", "value": 58},
  {"date":"2019-12-01T00:00:00", "keyword": "fauteuil", "value": 2},
  {"date":"2019-12-08T00:00:00", "keyword": "chaise", "value": 57},
  {"date":"2019-12-08T00:00:00", "keyword": "fauteuil", "value": 3},
  ...
]
 |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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