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gdelt-mcp-server
Search and analyze global news coverage and US TV transcripts via the GDELT Project APIs.
Tools
9
GitHub stars
4
Installs / wk
203
Licence
Apache-2.0
Transport
streamable-http, stdio
Last checked
27h ago
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9 toolsRead from the running server on 27h ago.
gdelt_get_coverage_breakdown
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query*seriestimespanbreakdownBy*endDatetimestartDatetime
Break down news coverage volume over time by source language or source country, returning a multi-series time series (one series per language or country). Shows which countries or… Break down news coverage volume over time by source language or source country, returning a multi-series time series (one series per language or country). Shows which countries or languages drove early vs. late coverage — useful for tracing how a story propagated geographically or across language communities. Returns up to 10 series by total volume and aggregates the rest into an "Other" bucket, naming every series it folded in there under otherSeriesLabels — pass any of those labels back as the series input to get that series complete, ranked or not. Values are normalized: each point is the topic's share of media output, not an absolute article count. Small media markets with concentrated coverage therefore rank above large markets with diverse output — a high value means the topic dominated that source's coverage, not that it published the most articles. Use breakdownBy "country" with the signal-detection chain to map geographic attention, or "language" to detect non-English media surges.
gdelt_get_coverage_timeline
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modequery*pointstimespansmoothingendDatetime
+1
Retrieve a time series showing when news coverage of a topic spiked, or how average tone shifted over time. Use mode "volume" for normalized coverage intensity (% of all global cov… Retrieve a time series showing when news coverage of a topic spiked, or how average tone shifted over time. Use mode "volume" for normalized coverage intensity (% of all global coverage per timestep). Use mode "volume_with_articles" for the same signal plus the top articles that drove each spike — this is the primary signal-detection mode: a single call reveals both the spike and its cause, avoiding a follow-up gdelt_search_articles call. Use mode "tone" for average sentiment score per timestep (negative = hostile/fearful, positive = celebratory). Date resolution is inferred from returned intervals: 15 minutes or hours for short windows, days for longer ones. In volume_with_articles mode the text surface shows the first 3 article links per timestep next to that timestep's true article count; name a timestep's date in points to render its full list. Note: DOC API covers only the last 3 months.
gdelt_get_tone_distribution
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query*timespanendDatetimestartDatetime
Get the tonal distribution of articles matching a query as a histogram (bins approximately -30 to +30). Unlike a single average tone score, the histogram reveals whether coverage i… Get the tonal distribution of articles matching a query as a histogram (bins approximately -30 to +30). Unlike a single average tone score, the histogram reveals whether coverage is uniformly negative, bimodal (some articles extremely positive and some extremely negative), or clustered near neutral. Each bin includes representative article URLs. Distinct from gdelt_get_coverage_timeline (mode: tone) — this is a snapshot distribution across all matching articles, not a time series. Use gdelt_get_coverage_timeline with mode "tone" to see how sentiment shifted over time.
gdelt_get_tv_clips
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sortquery*stationstimespanmaxRecordsendDatetime
+1
Retrieve the top matching TV news clips (up to 3,000) for a query from the Internet Archive's Television News Archive. Each clip includes show name, station, air timestamp, a 15-se… Retrieve the top matching TV news clips (up to 3,000) for a query from the Internet Archive's Television News Archive. Each clip includes show name, station, air timestamp, a 15-second transcript excerpt, and a direct link to view the full one-minute clip. Use after gdelt_search_tv to read the actual transcript content driving a coverage spike. 3,000 is a hard per-call ceiling and GDELT offers no cursor: when a query fills it, split the run into narrower startDatetime/endDatetime windows — the response hands back the exact windows to use. Archive coverage spans 2009–October 2024.
gdelt_get_tv_context
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query*stationstimespanendDatetimestartDatetime
Get the top co-occurring words and phrases from TV news clips matching a query — the vocabulary framing a topic on television. Returns the most frequent non-stopword terms from mat… Get the top co-occurring words and phrases from TV news clips matching a query — the vocabulary framing a topic on television. Returns the most frequent non-stopword terms from matching clips, with relative frequency scores (0–100, where 100 = the query term itself). Use to understand narrative framing, identify related concepts mentioned alongside a topic, or generate follow-up search terms. TV data spans 2009–October 2024.
gdelt_get_tv_trending
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Retrieve trending topics, keywords, and phrases currently dominating US television news across national networks. No query required — returns the top memes of the present news cycl… Retrieve trending topics, keywords, and phrases currently dominating US television news across national networks. No query required — returns the top memes of the present news cycle. Updated every 15 minutes. Note: the GDELT TV archive feed stopped updating around October 2024; results from this endpoint reflect that most-recent archived data rather than a live feed.
gdelt_list_tv_stations
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List all television stations available for TV search with their market, network, monitoring start date, and monitoring end date. Stations with an end date within the last 24 hours… List all television stations available for TV search with their market, network, monitoring start date, and monitoring end date. Stations with an end date within the last 24 hours are flagged as active; stations with earlier end dates are discontinued. Use before querying to verify a station was active during the target time period, or to discover valid station IDs for the stations parameter in other TV tools. Most station monitoring ended October 2024 when the Internet Archive TV feed stopped updating.
gdelt_search_articles
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sortquery*timespanmaxRecordsendDatetimestartDatetime
Search the last 3 months of global news coverage (65+ languages) using the GDELT DOC API. Returns up to 250 articles with URL, title, source domain, language, country, publication… Search the last 3 months of global news coverage (65+ languages) using the GDELT DOC API. Returns up to 250 articles with URL, title, source domain, language, country, publication date, and social image URL. Query supports full GDELT syntax: phrases ("bird flu"), boolean OR ((flu OR pandemic)), source country (sourcecountry:china), source language (sourcelang:spanish), domain (domain:who.int), GKG theme (theme:DISEASE_OUTBREAK), tone filter (tone<-5 for negative), proximity (near20:"flu virus"), and repeat (repeat3:"outbreak"). 250 is a hard per-call ceiling and GDELT offers no cursor: when a query fills it, split the run into narrower startDatetime/endDatetime windows — the response hands back the exact windows to use. Note: this API covers only the most recent 3 months — use gdelt_search_tv for historical TV transcripts back to 2009.
gdelt_search_tv
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limitquery*offsetdateresstationstimespan
+4