How do I obtain gtrendsR results for same-day comparisons?-CodePudding

I have multiple terms and would like to know how the terms compare to each other on the same day:

search_terms <- c("apple", "oranges")
gtrends(keyword = search_terms,
        geo = "US",
        time = "2022-03-01 2022-03-01",
        onlyInterest = TRUE) -> output_results

I am currently getting the error, Error: Cannot parse the supplied time format. I get results when I add a few more days. Is there a way to get around this so I can just get results for one particular day?

CodePudding user response：

According to the docs you should have between two dates:

"Y-m-d Y-m-d" Time span between two dates (ex.: "2010-01-01 2010-04-03")

So what you can do is take it a day later and filter the desired date later out. Here is a reproducible example:

library(gtrendsR)
library(dplyr)
library(lubridate)
search_terms <- c("apple", "oranges")
gtrends(keyword = search_terms,
        geo = "US",
        time = "2022-03-01 2022-03-03",
        onlyInterest = TRUE) -> output_results

output_results$interest_over_time %>%
  filter(date == ymd("2022-03-01"))
#>         date hits keyword geo                  time gprop category
#> 1 2022-03-01   96   apple  US 2022-03-01 2022-03-03   web        0
#> 2 2022-03-01    2 oranges  US 2022-03-01 2022-03-03   web        0

^{Created on 2023-01-17 with reprex v2.0.2}