bigfunctions > get_google_trends

get_google_trends¶

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✅ You can call this get_google_trends bigfunction directly from your Google Cloud Project (no install required).

This get_google_trends function is deployed in bigfunctions GCP project in 39 datasets for all of the 39 BigQuery regions. You need to use the dataset in the same region as your datasets (otherwise you may have a function not found error).
Function is public, so it can be called by anyone. Just copy / paste examples below in your BigQuery console. It just works!
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Public BigFunctions Datasets:

Region	Dataset
`eu`	`bigfunctions.eu`
`us`	`bigfunctions.us`
`europe-west1`	`bigfunctions.europe_west1`
`asia-east1`	`bigfunctions.asia_east1`
...	...

Description¶

Signature

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.

Examples¶

GET trends for chaise and fauteuil

EUUSeurope-west1

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

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

select bigfunctions.europe_west1.get_google_trends('chaise, fauteuil', 11, '2025-01-01 2025-01-07', 'FR', 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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