"Unexpected token L in JSON at position 0" when using a method from google trends api

Question

I am trying to make use of the google trends api for a project and today it started acting up. I'm using netbeans as IDE and not even this piece of code works:

const googleTrends = require('google-trends-api');
googleTrends.relatedTopics({keyword: 'Chipotle', startTime: new Date('2015-01-01'), endTime: new Date('2017-02-10')})
.then((res) => {
  console.log(res);
})
.catch((err) => {
  console.log(err);
});

I've done a little bit of research about this error and from I understand (I should probably state that I'm new to JS) it has something to do with parsing objects into strings, but I just don't understand how this is the case with my code. Moreover, I can't possibly imagine why it worked before but now it doesn't any more.

I tried the code and it worked fine for me. Try `npm update` (the current version of `google-trends-api` is 4.3.0) — , Jan 08 '18 at 13:44
@nedsteven Yes, that's very possible. Did you check http://console.developers.google.com/ ? — , Jan 08 '18 at 13:56

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 26 '18 at 23:34

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Ok I found out what the problem was. Apparently, Google's trends API is no longer open source.

answered Jan 26 '18 at 23:34

nedsteven

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"Unexpected token L in JSON at position 0" when using a method from google trends api

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