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How to scrape Google Trends without getting 429'd
Google Trends lacks an official API, forcing scrapers to reverse-engineer its internal endpoints. Requests require a multi-step handshake with single-use tokens and face aggressive IP throttling. The author details a retry mechanism that handles 429 errors and reveals that related topics are blocked for anonymous scrapers.
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The piece is a practical guide for developers, but underscores how Google's anti-scraping measures make Trends data increasingly hard to access programmatically.
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