Google Trends API - Interest Over Time, By Region, Related Queries

• Outcome: Review
• Latest audit: Sep 16, 2026 · 11:04 AM UTC
• Version: 1.0.3

Overview

This skill is a straightforward Scavio Google Trends API guide with disclosed external API calls and no hidden execution, persistence, or local data access.

Install only if you are comfortable sending trend keywords, geography/time filters, and your Scavio API key to Scavio's API. Watch credit usage, keep the API key in an environment variable or secret store, and avoid placing sensitive business research terms in requests unless Scavio is an approved provider for that data.

A.I.G

Vulnerability Patterns

• Skill Instruction Hijacking: Alters the agent's session goals or safety constraints when the skill loads
• Agent Memory Poisoning: Writes attacker-controlled rules into memory that affect later sessions
• Remote Payload Retrieval and Execution: Fetches external code whose behavior can change after review
• Embedded Malicious Code: Ships malicious scripts inside the skill and executes them locally
• Unauthorized Access and Privilege Escalation: Obtains permissions beyond the task's legitimate needs

SkillSpector

Vulnerability Patterns

• Data Exfiltration: External Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
• Prompt Injection: Instruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
• Privilege Escalation: Excessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
• Supply Chain: Unpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
• Excessive Agency: Unrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep

Findings (4)

External Transmission

Medium

• Category: Data Exfiltration
• Confidence: 50% confidence

Finding

Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 56)May include surrounding context.

Endpoint	Credits	Description
POST https://api.scavio.dev/api/v2/google/trends	1	Interest-over-time, by-region, and related data for a keyword
POST https://api.scavio.dev/api/v2/google/trending	1	Real-time trending searches for a country

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External Transmission

Medium

• Category: Data Exfiltration
• Confidence: 50% confidence

Finding

Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 57)May include surrounding context.

Endpoint	Credits	Description
POST https://api.scavio.dev/api/v2/google/trends	1	Interest-over-time, by-region, and related data for a keyword
POST https://api.scavio.dev/api/v2/google/trending	1	Real-time trending searches for a country

text

External Transmission

Medium

• Category: Data Exfiltration
• Confidence: 70% confidence

Finding

Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 106)May include surrounding context.

md

HEADERS = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {API_KEY}"}

# 1. Interest over the last 12 months in the US
trends = requests.post(f"{BASE}/api/v2/google/trends", headers=HEADERS,
    json={"query": "bitcoin", "geo": "US", "date": "today 12-m"}).json()
for point in trends["interest_over_time"]["timeline_data"]:
    print(point["date"], point["values"][0]["value"])

External Transmission

Medium

• Category: Data Exfiltration
• Confidence: 70% confidence

Finding

Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 112)May include surrounding context.

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print(point["date"], point["values"][0]["value"])

# 2. What's trending in the US right now
trending = requests.post(f"{BASE}/api/v2/google/trending", headers=HEADERS,
    json={"geo": "US", "hours": 24, "sort": "search_volume"}).json()
for t in trending["trends"]:
    print(t.get("query"), t.get("search_volume"))

Static analysis

Detected: suspicious.exposed_secret_literal

File appears to expose a hardcoded API secret or token.

Critical

• Code: suspicious.exposed_secret_literal
• Location: SKILL.md:35