centre-for-humanities-computing / GoogleTrender

Harnesses pytrends api to be able to compare an infinite amount of keywords.

GoogleTrender

Uses the pytrends api to fetch trends and then allows the comparison among a large (theoretically infinite) amount of keywords.

Usage:

Start by installing requirements.txt

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Trender.py usage:

Usage: Trender.py [options]

Options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -i INPUT, --terms=INPUT
                        txt file with newline separated search terms
  -d DATERANGE, --daterange=DATERANGE
                        The range of dates for which to fetch trend data
  -l GEO, --locality=GEO
                        2 letter locale from whence to fetch the data.
  -e, --interactive     output interactive plot in browser
  -o OUTPUT, --output=OUTPUT
                        output path for plot

The daterange format can be gathered from the original pytrends package.

Future work:

• Interactive and static plots. At present time only interactive plots are active.
• Make into a package