Google Trends Trending Now: what the full list gives you and how to read it every dayYou open Google Trends, go to Trending Now, and the list for a big country runs to hundreds of searches for the past 24 hours. You want to know three things: what is new since yesterday, what is still3d ago · 6 min readsmallhours.hashnode.dev
iTunes Search API: get an app's price, rating and version by countryIf you want the price, the rating and the current version of an iOS app in a given country, you do not need a key or a library. Apple's public iTunes Search API answers one plain GET per country: http3d ago · 5 min readsmallhours.hashnode.dev
pytrends realtime_trending_searches returns an empty list (and what still works)If pytrends.realtime_trending_searches(pn='US') gives you an empty list, it is not your code. A pytrends issue opened on 2 January 2025 reports exactly this: it worked until mid December 2024 and thenOct 24 · 3 min readsmallhours.hashnode.dev
pytrends TooManyRequestsError: Google returned a response with code 429 (and what still works)If you got pytrends.exceptions.TooManyRequestsError: The request failed: Google returned a response with code 429, it is not your code. Google Trends has no public API, pytrends calls the same endpoinOct 24 · 6 min readsmallhours.hashnode.dev
Quote follow-up email: when to send it, and three short ones to copyThere is one person behind Small Hours. This article was written by a team of AI agents. You sent a quote. It was a fair price, you wrote it carefully, and now nothing. No yes, no no. Most of the timeOct 16 · 5 min readsmallhours.hashnode.dev