/gdelt/articles/context
Snippet-level news search across GDELT coverage. Like article search but each result also includes the in-text sentence where the query appears plus its surrounding context, showing how a term is actually used.
Price: 1 credit
💡 AI Hint: Keyword-in-context news search. Returns articles with url, title, domain, language, seen_at, image, plus sentence (the matching sentence) and context (surrounding text). Use query for the search term, count for how many results, and the country/language/domain/theme/time filters to narrow.
Authorizations
API token from the dashboard
Headers
Body
Search query. Supports multiple keywords (implicit AND), "exact phrases" in quotes, boolean OR with parenthesized groups, and - to negate a term.
1"climate change"
"\"global warming\" OR \"climate crisis\""
Max number of results
1 <= x <= 250Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds)
20 <= x <= 1500Rolling time window relative to now, e.g. 15min, 24h, 3d, 1w, 1m. Mutually exclusive with start_datetime/end_datetime.
"3d"
Absolute window start in YYYYMMDDHHMMSS (UTC). Used with end_datetime.
"20260601000000"
Absolute window end in YYYYMMDDHHMMSS (UTC). Used with start_datetime.
"20260607000000"
Restrict to outlets based in this country.
afghanistan, albania, algeria, american_samoa, andorra, angola, anguilla, antarctica, antigua_and_barbuda, argentina, armenia, aruba, australia, austria, azerbaijan, bahamas, bahrain, bangladesh, barbados, belarus, belgium, belize, benin, bermuda, bhutan, bolivia, bosnia_herzegovina, botswana, brazil, british_virgin_islands, brunei, bulgaria, burkina_faso, burundi, cambodia, cameroon, canada, cape_verde, cayman_islands, central_african_republic, chad, chile, china, colombia, comoros, congo, cook_islands, costa_rica, cote_divoire, croatia, cuba, cyprus, czech_republic, democratic_republic_of_the_congo, denmark, djibouti, dominica, dominican_republic, east_timor, ecuador, egypt, el_salvador, equatorial_guinea, eritrea, estonia, ethiopia, falkland_islands, faroe_islands, fiji, finland, france, french_guiana, french_polynesia, gabon, gambia, gaza_strip, georgia, germany, ghana, gibraltar, greece, greenland, grenada, guadeloupe, guam, guatemala, guernsey, guinea_bissau, guyana, haiti, honduras, hong_kong, hungary, iceland, india, indonesia, iran, iraq, ireland, isle_of_man, israel, italy, jamaica, japan, jersey, jordan, kazakhstan, kenya, kiribati, kosovo, kuwait, kyrgyzstan, laos, latvia, lebanon, lesotho, liberia, libya, liechtenstein, lithuania, luxembourg, macau, macedonia, madagascar, malawi, malaysia, maldives, mali, malta, marshall_islands, martinique, mauritania, mauritius, mayotte, mexico, micronesia, moldova, monaco, mongolia, montenegro, montserrat, morocco, mozambique, myanmar, namibia, nauru, nepal, netherlands, new_caledonia, new_zealand, nicaragua, niger, nigeria, niue, norfolk_island, north_korea, northern_mariana_islands, norway, oman, pakistan, palau, panama, papua_new_guinea, paraguay, peru, philippines, pitcairn_islands, poland, portugal, puerto_rico, qatar, reunion, romania, russia, rwanda, saint_helena, saint_kitts_and_nevis, saint_lucia, saint_martin, saint_pierre_and_miquelon, saint_vincent_and_the_grenadines, saint_barthelemy, samoa, san_marino, sao_tome_and_principe, saudi_arabia, senegal, serbia, seychelles, sierra_leone, singapore, slovenia, solomon_islands, somalia, south_africa, south_korea, south_sudan, spain, sri_lanka, sudan, suriname, svalbard, swaziland, sweden, switzerland, syria, taiwan, tajikistan, tanzania, thailand, togo, tokelau, tonga, trinidad_and_tobago, tunisia, turkey, turkmenistan, turks_and_caicos_islands, tuvalu, uganda, ukraine, united_arab_emirates, united_kingdom, united_states, uruguay, uzbekistan, vanuatu, vatican_city, venezuela, vietnam, virgin_islands, wallis_and_futuna, west_bank, western_sahara, yemen, zambia, zimbabwe Restrict to outlets publishing in this language.
afrikaans, albanian, arabic, armenian, azerbaijani, bengali, bosnian, bulgarian, catalan, chinese, croatian, czech, danish, dutch, english, estonian, finnish, french, galician, georgian, german, greek, gujarati, hebrew, hindi, hungarian, icelandic, indonesian, italian, japanese, kannada, kazakh, korean, latvian, lithuanian, macedonian, malay, malayalam, marathi, mongolian, nepali, norwegian, persian, polish, portuguese, punjabi, romanian, russian, serbian, sinhalese, slovak, slovenian, somali, spanish, swahili, swedish, tamil, telugu, thai, tibetan, turkish, ukrainian, urdu, vietnamese Restrict to a single news outlet domain.
"bbc.co.uk"
Restrict to coverage tagged with this GDELT GKG theme code.
"TAX_FNCACT"
Machine-translate non-English coverage so it matches an English query.
Result ordering
date_desc, date_asc, tone_desc, tone_asc, relevance