PytrendsLongitudinalR
Create Longitudinal Google Trends Data
Description
'Google Trends' provides cross-sectional and time-series data on searches, but lacks readily available longitudinal data. Researchers, who want to create longitudinal 'Google Trends' on their own, face practical challenges, such as normalized counts that make it difficult to combine cross-sectional and time-series data and limitations in data formats and timelines that limit data granularity over extended time periods. This package addresses these issues and enables researchers to generate longitudinal 'Google Trends' data. This package is built on 'pytrends', a Python library that acts as the unofficial 'Google Trends API' to collect 'Google Trends' data. As long as the 'Google Trends API', 'pytrends' and all their dependencies are working, this package will work. During testing, we noticed that for the same input (keyword, topic, data_format, timeline), the output index can vary from time to time. Besides, if the keyword is not very popular, then the resulting dataset will contain a lot of zeros, which will greatly affect the final result. While this package has no control over the accuracy or quality of 'Google Trends' data, once the data is created, this package coverts it to longitudinal data. In addition, the user may encounter a 429 Too Many Requests error when using cross_section() and time_series() to collect 'Google Trends' data. This error indicates that the user has exceeded the rate limits set by the 'Google Trends API'. For more information about the 'Google Trends API' - 'pytrends', visit <https://pypi.org/project/pytrends/>.
Downloads
204
Last 30 days
22149th
494
Last 90 days
2K
Last year
Trend: +34.2% (30d vs prior 30d)
CRAN Check Status
Show all 14 flavors
| Flavor | Status |
|---|---|
| r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang | OK |
| r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc | OK |
| r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang | OK |
| r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc | OK |
| r-devel-macos-arm64 | OK |
| r-devel-windows-x86_64 | OK |
| r-oldrel-macos-arm64 | OK |
| r-oldrel-macos-x86_64 | OK |
| r-oldrel-windows-x86_64 | OK |
| r-patched-linux-x86_64 | ERROR |
| r-release-linux-x86_64 | OK |
| r-release-macos-arm64 | OK |
| r-release-macos-x86_64 | OK |
| r-release-windows-x86_64 | OK |
Check details (1 non-OK)
whether package can be installed
Installation failed. See ‘/home/hornik/tmp/R.check/r-patched-gcc/Work/PKGS/PytrendsLongitudinalR.Rcheck/00install.out’ for details.
Check History
ERROR 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 26, 2026
whether package can be installed
Installation failed. See ‘/home/hornik/tmp/R.check/r-devel-gcc/Work/PKGS/PytrendsLongitudinalR.Rcheck/00install.out’ for details.