gtrendsR can now be used behind a proxy, see setHandleParameters() (#245) @VictorYammouni
Fixes breaking changes introduced by Google Trends (#273, #274)
Now able to search with “&” character (#267). gtrends("A&W", geo = "CA")
gtrendsR now depends on R >= 3.2.0 (#264)
It is now possible to use DMA (gtrends(keyword="obama",geo="US-AL-630")) (#238).
Added missing country codes (#213).
Can now mix both country and sub country codes (plot(gtrends("pizza", geo = c("CA", "GB-ENG")))) (#218).
New parameter low_search_volume allowing low search volume regions (#229).
Fixing breaking changes that were introduced by Google Trends (#252) @kevinmager65.
Can now search without keywords (gtrends(geo = c("CA"), category = 20)).
gtrendsR has been almost re-written form scratch. One big visible change is that signing into a Google account is no longer required to download data from Google Trends.Added missing all DMAs within the US (#146).
gtrendsR now correctly use the hl (local) parameter to retrieve data (@antaldaniel).
Better support for queries using non-ascii keywords (gtrends("österreich")).
Added some missing country codes (#94). data("countries").
Now able to specify for which Google products the request is performed using the gprop parameter (#112). Possible values are froogle for Google shopping, new for Google news, youtube for YouTube videos and images for Google images.
Now able to query using Google categories ?gtrends (#89).
Returned data is now tidy (#110). The trend object now contains keyword, hits and location header (head(sport_trend$trend)).
Fixing a bug where overriding countries variable was breaking package’s functionalities (#109).
Correct default fallback for querying for google.user and google.password in gconnect (#121)
Fixing login issue due to backend changes made by Google (#103). Thanks to @MrLoh for initial implementation and suggestions.
Fixing crash occurring when monthly data was returned (#81).
gtrends() will throw a warning if data is returned monthly (#80).
gtrends() is now correctly detecting when quota limit is reached (#90).
A ggplot2 object can now be returned for further customization. plot(gtrends("NHL")) + ggtitle("NHL trend") + theme(legend.position="none")
Support for hourly and daily data (#67). For example, it is now possible to have hourly data for the last seven days with gtrends("nhl", geo = "CA", res = "7d"). Use ?gtrends for more information about the time resolution supported by the package.
Support for categories (#46). Ex.: gtrends("NHL", geo = "US", cat = "0-20") will search only in the sport category.
Some countries (ex: Hong Kong) were missing from the list (#69).
Various typos and documentation work.
Added support for sub-countries (#25). Ex.: gtrends("NHL", geo = "CA-QC") will return trends data for Québec province in Canada. The list of supported sub-countries can be obtained via data(countries).
Data parsing should work for any data returned by Google Trends (i.e. countries independent).
Better support for queries using keywords in different languages (#50, #57). Ex.: gtrends("蘋果", geo = "TW")
Now able to specify up to five countries (#53) via gtrends("NHL", geo = c("CA", "US"))
Fixing issue #51 allowing UK-based queries via geo = "GB"
gtrends("montréal").