# GDELT News Timeline

> GDELT News Timeline is a paid API for AI agents from exchangerebel.com, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-13).

Retrieves a timeline of news coverage frequency and intensity for a given query using the GDELT dataset

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://exchangerebel.com/toll/news/timeline?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/gdelt-news-timeline-60bafc07
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_PDUV38OmKoXxr_xwUwQRt

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-timeline-60bafc07
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the GDELT news timeline for 'artificial intelligence regulation' so I can see how media coverage has fluctuated over recent months?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need historical time-series data on how often a topic, keyword, or event has appeared in global news media, particularly when GDELT's broad multilingual global coverage is needed. Prefer this over social media trend APIs when you need long-horizon historical data and cross-source news signals rather than social engagement metrics.

## Known failure modes

- Missing or empty query parameter returns an error or empty result
- GDELT API upstream outage causes timeout or 5xx response
- Invalid query syntax returns no results
- Rate limiting or payment failure returns 402 or 429 status
- Extremely broad queries may return very large or truncated datasets

## How this service works

gdelt-timeline

## Output

Returns a time series of news coverage data from the GDELT dataset, showing how frequently a topic appeared in global news sources over a specified period, including timestamps and volume/intensity metrics.

## 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"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/gdelt-news-timeline-60bafc07/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from exchangerebel.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/exchangerebel.com/llms.txt)