# Google Trends API

MCP server providing Google search interest data and growth metrics through Trends API. Useful for tracking term momentum and live popular queries directly from coding agents.

- MCP server · `type=mcp` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf (Devin Desktop), Cline, Zed, Gemini CLI
- Author: trendsapi-ai
- License: MIT · policy=link-only · description only; the file stays with the author
- Source: https://github.com/trendsapi-ai/google-trends-api
- Updated: 2026-08-18
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/mcp/google-trends-api

## What it does

This tool connects your assistant to Trends API endpoints via HTTP without web scraping. It delivers normalized relative interest scores scaled 0 to 100 over custom dates, calculates growth rates across windows, and retrieves ranked live trending topics.

Keyword queries target Google web search by default. You can direct parameters toward images, news, or shopping feeds while navigating through paginated top trend listings.

A valid `TRENDSAPI_KEY` is required. Missing credentials trigger a 401 error immediately. Each successful call consumes API quota units.

## Requirements
- Remote server: `https://google-trends.api.trendsapi.ai/mcp`

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

**Platform CLI: remote server**
```bash
claude mcp add --transport http google-trends-api https://google-trends.api.trendsapi.ai/mcp
```

### Codex

**Platform CLI: remote server**
```bash
codex mcp add google-trends-api --url https://google-trends.api.trendsapi.ai/mcp
```

### Cursor

**Config file**
File `.cursor/mcp.json`:
```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "google-trends-api": {
            "url": "https://google-trends.api.trendsapi.ai/mcp"
        }
    }
}
```

### GitHub Copilot

**Config file**
File `.vscode/mcp.json`:
```json
{
    "servers": {
        "google-trends-api": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://google-trends.api.trendsapi.ai/mcp"
        }
    }
}
```

### Gemini CLI

**Platform CLI: remote server**
```bash
gemini mcp add -t http google-trends-api https://google-trends.api.trendsapi.ai/mcp
```

## When to use it
- retrieve historical search interest timelines for specific keywords
- calculate growth percentages across quarterly or yearly time windows
- inspect current live search trends with pagination
- evaluate keyword demand across web, news, and shopping feeds

## Example prompts
- Fetch the search interest time series for 'heat pump' over the past year.
- Show the top 10 live trending search queries right now.
- Compare the growth rate for electric cars over the last 3 months and 12 months.

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