You can access the GDELT Global News Search Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {
9    "queries": ["climate change"],
10    "maxResultsPerQuery": 10,
11    "sort": "DateDesc",
12    "timespan": "7d",
13}
14
15# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
16run = client.actor("automation-lab/gdelt-global-news-search-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
17
18# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
19print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
20for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
21    print(item)
22
23# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

GDELT Global News Search Scraper & Monitor API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use GDELT Global News Search Scraper API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

GDELT Global News Search Scraper API in JavaScript

GDELT Global News Search Scraper API through CLI

GDELT Global News Search Scraper OpenAPI definition

GDELT Global News Search Scraper API

GDELT News Monitor — Global News Mentions to JSON

oblanceolate_mandola/gdelt-news-monitor

Search worldwide news by keyword via GDELT. Title, source domain, country, date as JSON for brand-monitoring & news-tracking AI agents. $2 per 1,000, no coding.

Hassan Hashish

GDELT News Scraper — Articles, Timeline & Images

logiover/gdelt-news-scraper

Scrape GDELT Project by keyword, topic, or GDELT query. Extract article titles, URLs, domains, dates, languages, countries, images, and tone for news monitoring, media analysis, and research. No API key, no login.

Logiover

GDELT Global News Article Scraper

chrisp1211/gdelt-news-scraper-max

Monitor global news across 100+ languages with GDELT. Search articles by keyword, language, country and time window. Returns title, URL, domain, source country and date. No API key. Pay per article; empty runs free.

Christian Pichichero

GDELT Global News Articles Scraper

parseforge/gdelt-news-scraper

Search worldwide news coverage through the GDELT project by keyword. Each article returns the title, link, source domain, language, source country, a social image, and the date it was seen. Useful for media monitoring, tracking coverage, and studying global news over time.

ParseForge

GDELT Global News & Events Scraper

cloud9_ai/gdelt-news-scraper

Extract global news events from GDELT Project. Get news articles, sentiment, geographic data from 100+ languages updated every 15 minutes.

cloud9

GDELT Global News Search (Pythia)

apricot_blackberry/pythia-gdelt

Search the GDELT 2.0 DOC API for news mentions of any query term. Returns article title, URL, domain, source country, and language. Up to 100 articles per query, sorted newest-first.

Creator Fusion

GDELT Worldwide News Scraper

dami_studio/gdelt-news-scraper

Searches worldwide news via the public GDELT 2.0 DOC API and returns articles with title, URL, domain, source country, language, and publish date. Filter by keyword, timespan, country, and language to monitor any topic across global outlets.

Dami's Studio

5.0

GDELT Global News Monitoring Scraper

scrapers_lat/gdelt-news-events-scraper

Monitor worldwide news coverage by keyword, country and language. Scrape matching articles with title, link, source domain, source country, language, publish time and lead image. Great for brand and PR monitoring, media research and geo signals. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel.