# GDELT Trending News

> GDELT Trending News 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).

Fetches currently trending news topics and stories from the GDELT Project's global media monitoring dataset

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://exchangerebel.com/toll/news/trending?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-trending-news-9ed23146
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_MgAq86Gi0IvrFfmQ7DAxN

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-trending-news-9ed23146
```

Example prompt: What news topics are trending right now according to GDELT's global media monitoring? Pull the latest trending stories for me.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a real-time pulse on what global news topics are spiking in media coverage, particularly for geopolitical, world events, or journalistic contexts. Prefer it over social media trend APIs when you want global news media signals rather than social virality, and over static news APIs when you need aggregated trend strength rather than individual articles.

## Known failure modes

- GDELT upstream data delay may return stale trends
- Empty result set if GDELT feed is temporarily unavailable
- Rate limiting or payment failure if x402 micropayment not processed
- Malformed response if GDELT data pipeline has ingestion issues

## How this service works

gdelt-trending

## Output

A list of currently trending news topics, themes, or stories as tracked by GDELT's real-time global media analysis, likely including topic labels, coverage intensity signals, and associated event metadata.

## 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-trending-news-9ed23146/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)