# GDELT News Search via agentstools.dev

> GDELT News Search via agentstools.dev is a paid API for AI agents from api.agentstools.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.008/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Fetches recent global news articles from GDELT filtered by topic, country, theme, or language, returning normalized article metadata plus coverage breakdowns.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.agentstools.dev/gdelt/news
- Price: $0.008/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-search-via-agentstools-dev-a3e8092b
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_7n-EvLvBssrHRmRGGvidq

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## 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-search-via-agentstools-dev-a3e8092b
```

Example prompt: Pull the top 50 most recent English-language news articles about elections from the last week, and show me which countries and domains are covering it most.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need structured, normalized global news data from GDELT without writing GDELT query syntax yourself — especially when you want coverage analytics (top countries, domains, languages) alongside article results. Prefer over raw GDELT API when you need a single clean JSON response combining article listings and breakdown statistics.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid country name not mappable to GDELT FIPS code returns an error
- Unsupported theme name returns a validation error
- Limit exceeding 250 is rejected
- Empty result set if no articles match the query/timespan combination
- GDELT upstream unavailability may result in empty or error responses

## How this service works

Recent global news articles from the GDELT Project by topic, country, entity or theme, normalized to title, link-back url, domain, source-country, language and ISO timestamp — plus coverage breakdowns (top source-countries, top domains, languages, count) derived from the same result. One call instead of querying and parsing GDELT yourself.

## Output

A list of normalized news articles (title, URL, domain, source country, language, ISO timestamp) from GDELT, plus aggregated coverage breakdowns: top source countries, top domains, language distribution, and total article count.

## 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": [],
     "properties": {
      "lang": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Source-language filter by name (english, russian, arabic, ...)."
      },
      "sort": {
       "enum": [
        "datedesc",
        "dateasc",
        "relevance",
        "tonedesc",
        "toneasc"
       ],
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Result ordering (default datedesc)."
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "integer",
       "maximum": 250,
       "minimum": 1,
       "description": "Max articles (default 30, GDELT cap 250)."
      },
      "query": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Free-text topic (multi-word phrases are auto-quoted). Optional if a theme/country is given."
      },
      "theme": {
       "enum": [
        "protests",
        "terrorism",
        "conflict",
        "war",
        "inflation",
        "sanctions",
        "trade",
        "elections",
        "corruption",
        "cyber",
        "immigration",
        "refugees",
        "climate",
        "disaster",
        "epidemic",
        "energy",
        "economy",
        "diplomacy",
        "coup",
        "unrest"
       ],
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Curated GDELT GKG theme filter (friendly name mapped to a GKG code)."
      },
      "country": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Source-country filter by friendly name (United States, Russia, China, ...); mapped to the GDELT FIPS 10-4 code server-side."
      },
      "timespan": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Lookback window: 15min, 24h, 3d, 1w, 1m (default 24h)."
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

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