GDELT Global News Scraper
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from $1.50 / 1,000 article scrapeds
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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.
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_mobiledomain,language,source_countryseendate,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). - timespan —
15min…3m. - 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.