{"categories":[{"label":"WWW/HTTP","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/internet-www-http/2"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"Provides an unofficial interface to download and analyze Google Trends data, including search interest over time, regional breakdowns, related topics, and trending searches.","skillfed_tags":["abandoned","web-scraping","google-trends"],"use_cases":["Track keyword search volume trends over time for SEO research or market analysis","Compare search interest across multiple geographic regions to identify regional demand patterns","Monitor trending searches in real time or retrieve historical trending data for news/content planning","Discover related topics and queries to a keyword for content ideation or competitive analysis","Automate bulk trend data collection for academic research or business intelligence dashboards"],"what_it_does":"pytrends is an unofficial wrapper around Google Trends that automates downloading trend reports without requiring manual interaction with the web interface. It uses requests, pandas, and lxml to fetch and parse data on keyword search interest, geographic distribution, related searches, and trending topics. The package supports configurable parameters like time ranges, geographic regions, categories, and Google properties (web, images, news, YouTube, shopping).\n\nThe library is designed for developers who need programmatic access to Google Trends data for research, monitoring, or analysis. It handles connection details like proxies, retries, and backoff strategies to work around Google's rate limiting. However, because it reverse-engineers an unofficial API, it is inherently fragile\u2014any backend changes by Google can break functionality, and the package has been abandoned since April 2023 with no active maintenance.","worth_installing":"No\u2014not recommended for new projects. While the package is permissively licensed and has low install friction, it is abandoned (last release April 2023, repository archived) with no active maintenance. Google's backend changes will break the unofficial API without fixes. Use only if you have an existing codebase already depending on it and can tolerate potential breakage; for new work, seek an officially supported alternative or Google's official APIs."},"id":"pytrends","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/pytrends","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/pytrends.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/pytrends/"},"maintenance":{"status":"abandoned"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2023-04-13","license_spdx":null,"license_treatment":"permissive","name":"pytrends","python_support":"supports_current","summary":"Pseudo API for Google Trends"},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":1587165,"position":3737,"tier":"top_5000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"4.9.2"}