I recently became interested in Google Trends because I'm accustomed to analyzing time series, albeit in brain activity data. Nonetheless, my introduction to this tool occurred shortly after the presidential election, as I was interested in simply seeing search interest in certain fears. Here's an example of a few notable spikes in activity I found: Unable to find manually many other terms which showed such unambiguous changes on election night (spikes in sexism and homophobia searches are much more evident when plotted alone), I wondered, "Is it possible to extract Google Trend data for 1000s of terms?" The answer is yes and no (kind of). Of course, Python has an API just for this purpose, PyTrends, so it is possible. However, after I had decided on the thousands of terms I wanted to search, I ran into "rate limit errors" with Google Trends, which basically caps the number of searches you can do per hour. This limit apparently varies, but at the...