# GDELT News Intelligence API — Recent News Search

> GDELT News Intelligence API — Recent News Search is a paid API for AI agents from news-x402.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Fetches recent global news articles matching a keyword or phrase from the GDELT dataset, with sentiment scores and source metadata

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://news-x402.com/news/recent
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/gdelt-news-intelligence-api-recent-news-search-81d87d24
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_7G2bkrQNLnIbZVqBiUYsB

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability gdelt-news-intelligence-api-recent-news-search-81d87d24 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search global news for 'Federal Reserve interest rates' over the past 48 hours and show me recent articles in English — I want titles, sources, and sentiment scores.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need recent global news articles for a specific keyword or phrase, especially when you want sentiment scores, multilingual coverage, or source-country metadata. Prefer this over general web search when you specifically need structured news data with publication timestamps and sentiment in a clean JSON format suitable for downstream agent processing. Best for monitoring news volume around topics over a 1–72 hour window.

## Known failure modes

- Missing required 'topic' query parameter returns an error
- Hours value exceeding 72 is rejected with a validation error
- No articles found for obscure or misspelled topics returns empty articles array with total_found=0
- Payment not received or invalid USDC transaction results in 402 Payment Required
- Invalid language filter string may return no results or default to English

## How this service works

AI-friendly JSON API for global news intelligence. Built on GDELT (free public source), optimized for AI agents — clean responses, 5 use-case endpoints, parallel-aggregated entity graphs, no rate limits, no API keys. Pay-per-query in USDC on Base mainnet via x402.

## Output

A JSON object containing the search topic, the lookback window in hours, the total number of matching articles found, and an array of article objects each with title, URL, source domain, source country, language, publication timestamp, image URL, and a numeric sentiment score.

## Example request

```json
{
 "input": {
  "type": "http",
  "method": "GET",
  "queryParams": {
   "hours": 24,
   "topic": "artificial intelligence",
   "language": "english"
  }
 }
}
```

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "topic"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "hours": {
       "type": "integer",
       "maximum": 72,
       "minimum": 1,
       "description": "Lookback window in hours (default 24, max 72)"
      },
      "topic": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Search query — keyword or phrase"
      },
      "language": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Source language filter (default: english). e.g. spanish, french, arabic, chinese"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "topic",
      "timespan_hours",
      "total_found",
      "articles"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "topic": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "articles": {
       "type": "array",
       "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
         "url": {
          "type": "string"
         },
         "title": {
          "type": "string"
         },
         "source": {
          "type": "string"
         },
         "language": {
          "type": "string"
         },
         "image_url": {
          "type": [
           "string",
           "null"
          ]
         },
         "published_at": {
          "type": [
           "string",
           "null"
          ]
         },
         "first_seen_at": {
          "type": [
           "string",
           "null"
          ]
         },
         "source_country": {
          "type": "string"
         },
         "sentiment_score": {
          "type": [
           "number",
           "null"
          ]
         }
        }
       }
      },
      "total_found": {
       "type": "integer"
      },
      "timespan_hours": {
       "type": "integer"
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "topic": "bitcoin",
  "articles": [
   {
    "url": "https://cointelegraph.com/news/...",
    "title": "Bitcoin Posts Strongest Monthly Gain",
    "source": "cointelegraph.com",
    "language": "English",
    "image_url": "https://...",
    "published_at": "2026-05-03T06:45:00Z",
    "source_country": "United States",
    "sentiment_score": 1.2
   }
  ],
  "total_found": 1,
  "timespan_hours": 24
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/gdelt-news-intelligence-api-recent-news-search-81d87d24/health.json
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