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GDELT Global News Scraper

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GDELT Global News Scraper

GDELT Global News Scraper

Monitor global news in real time from GDELT — search worldwide online news articles by keyword, with title, URL, source domain, language, source country, publish date and social image. Covers 100+ languages. No key, no proxy.

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from $1.50 / 1,000 article scrapeds

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GDELT Global News Scraper 🌍📰

Monitor worldwide news in real time from GDELT — the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone that indexes online news in 100+ languages. Search by keyword and get matching articles from thousands of sources around the globe.

Perfect for media monitoring, PR & brand tracking, market/finance sentiment, competitive intelligence, research and AI datasets.

What it extracts (one row per article)

  • title, url, url_mobile
  • domain, language, source_country
  • seendate, social_image

Input

{
"queries": ["electric vehicles", "\"central bank\" inflation"],
"timespan": "1d",
"sourceLang": "english",
"sourceCountry": "US",
"sort": "datedesc",
"maxRecordsPerQuery": 200
}
  • queries — keywords/phrases. Supports GDELT operators ("exact phrase", domain:bbc.co.uk, sourcelang:spanish).
  • timespan15min3m.
  • sourceLang / sourceCountry — optional filters.
  • sort — newest, oldest, most positive/negative tone, or relevance.

Output example

{
"type": "article",
"title": "New EV battery breakthrough announced",
"url": "https://example-news.com/ev-battery",
"domain": "example-news.com",
"language": "English",
"source_country": "United States",
"seendate": "20260716T001500Z",
"social_image": "https://example-news.com/img.jpg"
}

Notes

  • Uses the free GDELT DOC 2.0 API — no key, 100+ languages, global coverage.
  • Respects GDELT's rate guidance (~1 request / 5s) automatically.
  • No proxy required.