Automated Google Trends downloader
Project description
gtrends is a python library that eases the process of downloading Google Trend data. Google Trends is a service offered by Google which allows access to aggregate query volume data for specific search terms, over specific periods of time. This volume data is represented as a fraction of the total query volume on the given day or week.
Users with Google accounts can download these data into csv files, however there are several caveats which make the data difficult to process. The data only come in daily granularity up until 3 months worth of data, after which they become weekly. Even worse, Google normalizes the data, so that the largest percent query volume in the time series is set to an integer ‘100,’ with all other values set to smaller integer values. This makes it difficult, for example, to collect several files and splice them together (such as to maintain a daily granularity via shorter time periods), since the data are on difference scales.
gtrends solves this by allowing developers to extract data with either weekly or daily granularity, on the same timescale, and most importantly, with the same over-all scale.
Usage
gtrends only contains one function, collectTrends(). It can be used by the following:
username = "myGoogleUsername" password = "myGooglePassword" terms = ["foo", "bar", "baz"] startDt = datetime.datetime(year=2015, month=1, day=1) endDt = datetime.datetime(year=2015, month=2, day=1) trends = gtrends.collectTrends(username, password, terms, startDt, endDt)
where trends is a list of lists, downloaded with data:
date,foo,bar,baz 1/1/2015,16.667,83.333,16.667 1/2/2015,16.667,83.333,16.667 1/3/2015,16.667,83.333,16.667 1/4/2015,16.667,83.333,16.667 1/5/2015,16.667,66.667,16.667 1/6/2015,16.667,66.667,16.667 1/7/2015,16.667,83.333,16.667 1/8/2015,16.667,83.333,16.667 1/9/2015,16.667,83.333,16.667 1/10/2015,16.667,83.333,16.667 ... 1/30/2015,16.667,83.333,16.667 1/31/2015,16.667,100.00,16.667
The dates are of type datetime, and the numbers are floats rounded to 3 decimal places.
Advanced Usage
Granularity
With the optional argument granularity, the granularity can be changed from the default of daily, to weekly. granularity takes a string of either 'd' or 'w' corresponding to daily or weekly, respectively.
Sum
sum, is an optional argument of type boolean. With this, the data of multiple terms can be summed together into one column. Default is False.
SavePath
savePath takes a string for a path to save the resultant csv. If left as the default None, no file is saved.
Note
When the data is normalized at the end, this is done by the largest value, across all terms (if more than one). Therefore all term values are to scale between terms.
Installing
Install via pip with:
pip install gtrends
Requirements
This has so far only been tested on Python 2.7.
Issues
Please create an issue in the issue tracker.
License
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2015 Eric Salina
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Data Source: Google Correlate (http://www.google.com/trends)
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