/gdelt/articles/search
Search worldwide news coverage indexed by GDELT. Returns matching articles with url, title, outlet domain, language, source country, publish time and social image. Supports keyword/phrase/boolean queries plus filters by country, language, domain, theme, tone and time window.
Price: 1 credit
💡 AI Hint: Cross-outlet realtime news article search. Returns a list of articles, each with url, title, domain, language, source_country, seen_at and image. Use query for keywords/phrases/boolean, count for how many to return, and the country/language/domain/theme/tone/time filters to narrow.
Authorizations
API token from the dashboard
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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 Only return articles with tone above this value.
Only return articles with tone below this value.