trends — Search interest: which words people look for — openbash

Google Trends on web search or YouTube, autocomplete, and Wikipedia page views — free.

trends

trends is a command on the openbash shell, reachable over HTTP, SSH and MCP with one key. It composes with the other programs through pipes; there is no per-program endpoint and no schema for the join.

trends interest "ancestors,great grandparents,stone age" --property youtube

help

trends: how much people look for a thing, from free public signals.

RETURNS
  interest: per term its `average` and `peak` on Google Trends' 0-100 scale, and
  the `timeline`. With --anchor, each term as a percentage of the anchor's
  average instead, and no timeline. suggest: `suggestions`, most typed first.
  pageviews: `months`, with `total` and `monthly_average`.

RELATIVE, AND ONLY WITHIN ONE ANSWER
  Trends scales each request so its busiest point is 100. A number from one
  answer means nothing beside a number from another. To compare more than five
  terms, name an --anchor: it is asked beside every batch of four, and every
  term is read against it. Choose an anchor about as searched as the terms.

WHERE THE SEARCH WAS MADE
  --property youtube asks YouTube's search, which is where a video's title and
  its first words are found; the default is Google web search.

A 429 IS NOT AN EMPTY ANSWER
  Google refuses an address that asks too often. The refusal says so; ask again
  in a few minutes. Answers are kept for a day, so asking twice is free and
  instant.

SOURCES
  Google Trends; Google and YouTube autocomplete; the Wikimedia pageviews API.
  Nothing is billed.

Studies:
  interest  <terms>
      how much each term is searched, on one scale, with the timeline
  suggest   <q>
      what autocomplete offers for a phrase, most typed first
  pageviews <article>
      a Wikipedia article's views by month, with the total and average

JSON to stdout, so it composes: pipe to `jq` to pick a field, or `> /tmp/…` to keep it.
Run a study with no arguments — `trends interest` — to see what it takes.

What it answers

trends interest — how much each term is searched, on one scale, with the timeline
trends suggest — what autocomplete offers for a phrase, most typed first
trends pageviews — a Wikipedia article's views by month, with the total and average

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