will gtrendsR support topic in google trends?

[sahmoli]

Thank you for your fantastic package!
I wonder whether gtrendsR will support topic in google trends. The topic aggregate a group of terms that share the same concept in any language. That is super useful for global research across multiple languages.

[PMassicotte]

Do you have an example from the web site we can use?

[JBleher]

I think this is already supported. The currently featured example on Google Trends is about Kim Kardeshian and Taylor Swift, which results in a request to the URL:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fm%2F0dl567,%2Fm%2F0261x8t&date=now 7-d&geo=US

From that you can get the search terms "/m/0dl567" for Kim Kardeshian and "/m/0261x8t" for Taylor Swift. If you use these strings, in gtrends you should get the topics. So you would need to find the topic identifier used by Google (here: "/m/0dl567" and "/m/0261x8t") and you can then use gtrends to download the search volume index...

[PMassicotte]

@sahmoli Is it working as wanted?

[sahmoli]

I got it. That works.
But do you know how to detect whether many terms have been collected as topics in batch?

[JBleher]

I don't understand the question. I think, unless you specify the topic identifier, with gtrendsR you are never using topics. Does that answer the question?

[sahmoli]

I got it. I need to get the topic identifier first. Thank you so much.

[andrasberczi]

It seems like we cannot retreive data when using both mid (eg.: "/m/0dl567") and a search term.

This works:

gtrendsR::gtrends("/m/0dl567")

This also works:

gtrendsR::gtrends("kitchenaid")

But this does not:

gtrendsR::gtrends(c("/m/0dl567", "kitchenaid"))

It gives back:

Error in interest_over_time(widget, comparison_item, tz) : 
  Status code was not 200. Returned status code:401

Can you help with this please?