Python Knows What People Think During Christmas

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Christmas is just around the corner, the snowfall, beautiful festive lights and joyful songs from the last year still floating in your mind. But this year, things are getting unusual due to the Covid-19. A lot of celebration events are cancelled or suspended and people are advised to avoid gathering and stay at home as much as possible. Although staying at home became new norm, there is still a way that we can get to know what people are thinking about during this festive season since nowadays most of us search a lot from Google every day. With a few lines of Python code, we will be able to extract and visualize the data from Google Trends.

Let’s dive into the code examples.

Python to get Google trends data

To get the search trends from Google, we will need to use a Python package — pytrends. It’s not an official API for Google trends but It provides a convenience way to automatically download Google trends data same as what we can do manually from Google Trends website.

You can use the pip command to install the package:

pip install --upgrade pytrends

And import the necessary modules at the beginning of our code:

from pytrends.request import TrendReq