Issue with Google trends... only from Israel

[yohananouaknine]

Hello Joachim,

Thank u for this great job and for adding Google Trends data. I have two questions:

1. Why there are no results for Israel (and some other countries) while from this link I can get the results? https://trends.google.fr/trends/explore?cat=16&date=2019-12-31%202020-05-30&geo=IL&q=CORONAVIRUS

2. Is it possible to modify the search string this way? search_term = c('coronavirus', 'COVID', 'קורונה', 'קוביד')

Thank you !!! Yan Ouaknine

[joachim-gassen]

Hi there! I have pushed today an extension to download_google_trends()data that allows to download search data for a wide array of countries (including Israel) if you include low_search_volume = TRUE in the function call. Note that this will take roughly 30 minutes to complete because of the generous waits that I included to keep Google happy.

Alternatively, you can download data just for selected countries by setting the countries parameter, e.g. countries = "ISR".

Don't forget to update the package if you want to test the new functionality.

About additional search strings: This is not implemented. You could try to use gtrendsR::gtrends() directly for that purpose.

A final thing: If you want to download Google Trends for the large sample, you will be most likely affected by a current bug in the {gtrendsR} package that causes gtrends() to fail occasionally. I submitted a PR that might fix the bug to the maintainer but until he gets around to take a look at it, you can install my forked version of the package containing the fix. So, to download a large sample of Google Trends data you currently need 30 minutes time to run:

remotes::install_github("joachim-gassen/gtrendsR")
remotes::install_github("joachim-gassen/tidycovid19")
library(tidycovid19)
gtlist < download_google_trends_data(type = c('country', 'country_day', 'region', 'city'), low_search_volume = TRUE)

[yohananouaknine]

Thank You!!! Yohanan Ouaknine

[yohananouaknine]

thank you so much !!! Yohanan (Yan) Ouaknine

On Sun, 7 Jun 2020 at 18:49, Joachim Gassen notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi there! I have pushed today an extension to download_google_trends()data that allows to download search data for a wide array of countries (including Israel) if you include low_search_volume = TRUE in the function call. Note that this will take roughly 30 minutes to complete because of the generous waits that I included to keep Google happy.

Alternatively, you can download data just for selected countries by setting the countries parameter, e.g. countries = "ISR".

Don't forget to update the package if you want to test the new functionality.

About additional search strings: This is not implemented. You could try to use gtrendsR::gtrends() directly for that purpose.

A final thing: If you want to download Google Trends for the large sample, you will be most likely affected by a current bug in the {gtrendsR} package that causes gtrends() to fail occasionally. I submitted a PR that might fix the bug to the maintainer but until he gets around to take a look at it, you can install my forked version of the package containing the fix. So, to download a large sample of Google Trends data you currently need 30 minutes time to run:

remotes::install_github("joachim-gassen/gtrendsR") remotes::install_github("joachim-gassen/tidycovid19") library(tidycovid19) gtlist < download_google_trends_data(type = c('country', 'country_day', 'region', 'city'), low_search_volume = TRUE) ``

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