# SiteCheck Web Intel – GDELT News Search

> SiteCheck Web Intel – GDELT News Search is a paid API for AI agents from api.webintel-api.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-24).

Searches recent news articles (last ~72 hours) via GDELT's Context 2.0 API, returning titles, URLs, domains, languages, timestamps, and matching sentences for a given query.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.webintel-api.workers.dev/api/search/gdelt-news?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-24
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/sitecheck-web-intel-gdelt-news-search-dfa9df82
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_PUhc6JSgAbaBA6vWg0-cZ

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 sitecheck-web-intel-gdelt-news-search-dfa9df82
```

Example prompt: Find me recent news articles from the last 72 hours about 'Federal Reserve interest rates' — show me up to 20 results in English using GDELT.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need recent (last ~72 hours) global news coverage on a topic, person, company, or event without requiring an API key. It is especially valuable when you need GDELT's advanced query syntax (exact phrases, language filters, domain filters) and broad cross-lingual global news coverage. Prefer this over RSS-based endpoints when you need structured sentence-level matching across thousands of sources simultaneously.

## Known failure modes

- 503 returned when GDELT is rate-limited or responds too slowly
- Empty result set if the query matches no articles in the GDELT 72-hour window
- Query strings exceeding 200 characters are rejected
- Limit values outside 1–50 range may produce errors
- GDELT coverage gaps: niche or regional outlets not indexed by GDELT will not appear
- DOC 2.0 fallback may return slightly different result structure than Context 2.0

## How this service works

Recent news articles (last ~72 hours) that match a query, from GDELT's public Context 2.0 API (DOC 2.0 API as fallback), no key: title, URL, domain, language, time seen and the matching sentence. Supports GDELT query syntax ("exact phrase", sourcelang:english, domain:bbc.co.uk). Covers the sources GDELT monitors, not every outlet. Rate-limited or slow GDELT answers return 503.

## Output

A list of news articles (up to 50) each containing: article title, URL, publishing domain, language code, the timestamp when GDELT first saw the article, and the specific sentence from the article that matched the query. Results come from the GDELT-monitored corpus of global news sources published within approximately the last 72 hours.

## 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",
     "required": [
      "q"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "q": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Search words or GDELT query (1 to 200 characters)"
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "How many articles, 1 to 50 (default 10)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

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