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Google Trends MCP server

Lets your AI look up Google Trends interest over time, by region, and related searches for any keyword.

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This is a helper that connects your AI to Google Trends data. You ask a question in plain words, and the AI fetches the trend numbers for you. It is handy for anyone who needs to know what people are searching for, without opening a spreadsheet or learning a new tool.

What is an MCP server? The 30-second version

On its own, your AI can only chat with you. It cannot go and check live data on a website. An MCP server is a small helper program that gives your AI a new skill, and here that skill is looking things up in Google Trends. Once it is connected, you just ask your question, and the AI quietly uses this helper to get the numbers for you.

What this MCP server does

You type a question about a keyword, like how interest in something changed over the past year. Your AI sends that request to this helper. The helper talks to Google Trends and pulls back the data as clean structured text. Then your AI reads it and answers you in the chat. You never touch the raw data yourself.

Flow diagram: you ask your AI “How has interest in cold brew coffee changed this year?”, the Google Trends MCP server connects it to Google Trends, and you get back A summary with the numbers.

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What you can do with it

See how interest in a keyword changed over time
Compare up to five keywords against each other
Check interest by country, state, metro area, or city
Find rising related searches people are starting to type
Find the top related searches around a keyword
Look at related topics instead of related searches
Narrow results to a category, or to Shopping, News, Images, or YouTube

Try asking your AI

“Chart interest in cold brew coffee in the US over the past 12 months and tell me which weeks it peaked”
“For cold brew coffee in the US, give me the rising related queries and flag the ones marked Breakout”
“Compare interest in cold brew against iced coffee worldwide over five years and say which one is growing”
“Show me interest in sunscreen by US state over the past 90 days so I can see where demand is highest”

What it gives back to you

You get answers in the chat, usually as a short summary plus the numbers behind it. Depending on what you asked, that can be a list of dates with interest scores, a breakdown by region, or lists of related searches split into rising and top. Your AI can turn those into a table or a simple chart if you ask. It only reads data, so nothing in your account or on Google gets changed.

Before you start

What you need

An MCP client, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, or VS Code
A HasData API key from their dashboard (a kind of password for apps; the free signup needs no card)
The server URL, which is the same for every client

Good to know

Each successful lookup costs 5 credits from your HasData account, and the free tier gives you 1,000 credits a month.

Install it with your AI

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You don't install anything by hand. You copy one prompt, paste it into an AI that can work on your computer, and it checks, installs and connects the server for you, asking you when it needs something.

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