GDELT News Intelligence API

Decision-ready global news intelligence for market and OSINT agents. Clean, cached GDELT data with source diversity, geographic coverage, multilingual perspectives, sentiment trends, and citations. Pay per successful query in USDC on Base via x402.

Why this wrapper

GDELT is a free, well-known public source — but querying it raw is painful for AI agents. Here's what we add:

Raw GDELTThis API
Inconsistent XML / quirky JSON (seendate=20240115T120000Z)Clean predictable JSON (published_at: "2024-01-15T12:00:00Z")
7+ raw modes to learn (artlist, timelinetone, pointdata…)6 task-oriented endpoints, including a decision-ready market/OSINT brief
Multi-step research and repeated source parsingParallel aggregation, deduplication, caching, source diversity, risk flags, and citations
Transient throttling and opaque failuresTimeouts, retry, short-lived cache, and explicit non-settled upstream errors
GEO 2.0 API discontinued — calls failReplaced with article-source-country aggregation — works reliably
API keys, IP whitelist for scalex402 — sign once with your wallet, done

Endpoints

EndpointDescriptionPrice
GET /news/briefDecision-ready brief for market and OSINT agents$0.01
GET /news/recentTop 25 recent articles$0.01
GET /news/sentimentSentiment timeline$0.02
GET /news/geographicGeographic hotspots by source country$0.02
GET /news/translingualMulti-language coverage$0.03
GET /news/entity-graphEntity knowledge graph$0.05

How to use

Each endpoint requires an x402 payment in USDC on Base mainnet. Send a request without payment to receive HTTP 402 with the payment requirements in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED response header. Sign the authorization and retry with the PAYMENT-SIGNATURE header to receive the JSON response.

Settlement is handled by the Coinbase CDP facilitator.

Discovery

Data: GDELT Project — free and freely redistributable global news intelligence.