# GDELT Global News Scraper (`bgfc97/gdelt-news-scraper`) Actor

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.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/bgfc97/gdelt-news-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Bruno](https://apify.com/bgfc97) (community)
- **Categories:** News, AI, Other
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.50 / 1,000 article scrapeds

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## 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

```json
{
  "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

```json
{
  "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.

# Actor input Schema

## `queries` (type: `array`):

Keywords / phrases to search across worldwide news. Supports GDELT operators, e.g. '"electric vehicles"', 'sourcelang:english tesla', 'domain:bbc.co.uk'.

## `timespan` (type: `string`):

How far back to search from now.

## `sourceLang` (type: `string`):

Restrict to a language, e.g. 'english', 'spanish', 'portuguese'. Leave blank for all languages.

## `sourceCountry` (type: `string`):

Restrict to a source country code, e.g. 'US', 'BR', 'GB'. Leave blank for all.

## `sort` (type: `string`):

Article ordering.

## `maxRecordsPerQuery` (type: `integer`):

Up to 250 per query (GDELT limit).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "artificial intelligence"
  ],
  "timespan": "1d",
  "sourceLang": "",
  "sourceCountry": "",
  "sort": "datedesc",
  "maxRecordsPerQuery": 100
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "queries": [
        "artificial intelligence"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("bgfc97/gdelt-news-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "queries": ["artificial intelligence"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("bgfc97/gdelt-news-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "queries": [
    "artificial intelligence"
  ]
}' |
apify call bgfc97/gdelt-news-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=bgfc97/gdelt-news-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/pUBs6O9GFMOO84hUf/builds/ylnBlJtDEOEdZyLay/openapi.json