horstjens / PyTrends

PyTrends

use case one

Marketing question about product X in region Y speaks language Z.

You want to know how many times that X is mentioned is mentioned in regions A, B, C

You want to know how many times that X is mentioned is mentioned in language F, G, H

Generate a graph showing this search trend.

use case two

Your client, LittleCo, wants to know if their WidgetWonder is being searched in region A, B, C so they can retarget their ad campaigns.

Generate a graph showing this search trend.

use case three

Your client, SuperCo, wants to know how often their industry, BasketWeaving, is being searched in languages F, G and H.

Generate a graph showing this search trend.

use case four

Create a dashboard showing search trends over a time series by region.

use case five

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use case six

Profit!!!

URL for this repo

https://github.com/pleabargain/PyTrends

target

https://www.google.com/alerts?hl=en-GB#

inspired by

https://medium.com/@ismaelaraujo/pytrends-a-python-library-that-you-should-know-24764b384bc2

why not just pass the request via the URL?

Google is obfuscating the request! Check out what it does to my "sand dunes" query. It counts the number of chars but exposes nothing else.

graph

https://drive.google.com/file/d/13wUeT3ZHQvngwHiQMOKoPEb5WjIF8Fmm/view?usp=sharing

TODO

• pass arguments to the function

• • google_trends -filename.csv

• fix the output so that kwords is the search term

• search should use a csv for source e.g. term, country(geo), language chien,FR,FR perro,ES,ES

• • see https://pypi.org/project/pytrends/#interest-by-region

• use the sleep param in the module

If you are rate-limited by Google, you should set this parameter to something (i.e. 60) to space off each API call.

optional

• each search term graph has it's own PDF with a branded header and company logo
• • Not certain this is the way to go.

DONE

• added a logger
• added a minute time stamp to the files to make them easier to find!
• 60 second time between searches!
• set a progress bar in terminal
• Set a timer in between running individual searches

references

https://github.com/GeneralMills/pytrends/blob/master/examples/example.py

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This is a fork.

issues

I had to had some more pip install commands to get the script to run.

errors

I got this one OSError: [WinError 5] Access is denied:

I ran the pip install as admin cmd