# GDELT Pulse

> GDELT Pulse is a paid API for AI agents from payai.agentstools.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.03/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Fetches fused GDELT intelligence for a world topic in one call: recent articles, coverage breakdowns by country/domain/language, and tone trend with direction.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://payai.agentstools.dev/gdelt/pulse
- Price: $0.03/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/gdelt-pulse-09a3bb5e
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_fYPIW9nkSsBVWB_QvVib7

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-pulse-09a3bb5e
```

Example prompt: Pull the GDELT pulse on 'Gaza ceasefire' for the past week — I want recent articles, the top source countries and domains covering it, and whether the media tone is trending more positive or negative.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a comprehensive, pre-fused GDELT intelligence snapshot for a topic in a single call — saving the overhead of making and parsing 4-5 separate GDELT API requests. Ideal for research agents, journalism tools, geopolitical dashboards, and briefing generators that need articles + coverage geography + sentiment trend together. Not suitable for real-time trading signals or sub-minute latency requirements; use direct GDELT streaming for those.

## Known failure modes

- No articles found for the query/theme/country combination in the requested timespan — returns empty result set
- Invalid or unsupported country name that cannot be mapped to a GDELT FIPS 10-4 code — returns 400-level error
- GDELT upstream unavailability or rate limiting causing delayed or partial responses
- Query too broad returning low-signal noise across many unrelated articles
- Timespan too narrow (e.g. 15min) for low-volume topics returning insufficient data for tone trend

## How this service works

Fusion intelligence for a world topic in ONE call: recent articles + coverage breakdowns (top source-countries, domains, languages) + a tone trend with the current average tone and direction — all normalized and cited. Saves 4-5 separate GDELT calls and their parsing. Research latency, not real-time trading.

## Output

A single normalized JSON response containing: a list of recent GDELT articles (titles, URLs, sources, dates), coverage breakdowns by top source countries, domains, and languages (with share percentages), and a tone trend object with the current average GDELT tone score and its directional movement (rising/falling/stable) — all cited and pre-parsed from 4-5 underlying GDELT API calls.

## 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, ...)."
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "integer",
       "maximum": 250,
       "minimum": 1,
       "description": "Max articles in the fusion (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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