GTA 6 Countdown & Developments Tracker

One compliant JSON feed for everything GTA 6: a live release countdown, confirmed facts, a diffed changelog of what just changed, filtered news, and a public-metrics hype index.

Built for AI agents, RAG pipelines, Discord and Telegram bot builders, countdown sites, and dashboard makers who need structured GTA 6 data without scraping leaks, fighting walled pages, or re-polling ten outlets and de-duping headlines. Every run returns one clean state object plus the individual news and change events behind it.

Unofficial. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Rockstar Games or Take-Two Interactive. Aggregates only publicly available information and official announcements. Tracks no leaked, hacked, or proprietary material.

What you get

Three record types in the dataset, plus a per-source HEALTH report and the latest SNAPSHOT in the key-value store.

Record type	What it is
snapshot	Live countdown (days and hours to launch), confirmed facts (release date, platforms, trailers, pre-order status), a Wikidata release-date cross-check, and the hype index with release-date market odds
development	A diffed change event vs the previous run — the date slips, pre-orders open, a new trailer drops. The value is detecting the change, not relisting news
news	GTA-specific coverage from Bing News RSS plus permitted-outlet RSS filtered to GTA/Rockstar items; articles that cover a leak or rumor are tagged rumor: true with a credibility note

Quick start

The prefilled input runs a complete demo out of the box:

{
  "newsSources": [
    { "url": "https://www.bing.com/news/search?q=%22GTA+6%22&format=rss", "category": "aggregated", "kind": "rss", "keep_all": true },
    { "url": "https://www.gamespot.com/feeds/news/", "category": "coverage", "kind": "rss" },
    { "url": "https://www.eurogamer.net/feed", "category": "coverage", "kind": "rss" },
    { "url": "https://www.pcgamer.com/rss/", "category": "coverage", "kind": "rss" },
    { "url": "https://www.polygon.com/rss/index.xml", "category": "coverage", "kind": "rss" }
  ],
  "includeMarketOdds": true,
  "includeHype": true,
  "youtubeTrailerIds": ["QdBZY2csoPo"],
  "maxItemsPerSource": 25,
  "respectRobots": true
}

A run returns one snapshot, any development events, and up to 25 news items per source — typically a few dozen records in one to two minutes.

Output example

A snapshot record, adapted from a real run:

{
  "type": "snapshot",
  "title": "Grand Theft Auto VI",
  "release_date": "2026-11-19",
  "days_remaining": 164,
  "hours_remaining": 3936,
  "is_released": false,
  "platforms": ["PlayStation 5", "Xbox Series X|S"],
  "preorder_status": "Expected late June 2026",
  "trailers": [
    { "name": "Trailer 1", "date": "2023-12-05" },
    { "name": "Trailer 2", "date": "2025-05-06" }
  ],
  "hype": {
    "momentum_pct": 18.4,
    "wikipedia_pageviews": { "latest_day_views": 41032, "avg_7d": 38110, "momentum_pct_7d_vs_prior_7d": 18.4 },
    "market_odds": { "source": "kalshi", "series": "KXGTA6", "market": "Will GTA 6 release by Nov 30, 2026?", "implied_probability": 0.86 }
  },
  "rumor_watch": { "coverage_items": 2, "note": "count of reputable-outlet items covering a leak/rumor this run" },
  "fetched_at": "2026-06-08T00:00:00+00:00"
}

Why this one

• Server-side change detection. Each run diffs the tracked facts (release date, platforms, pre-order status, publisher, trailers) against the previous run and emits development events. One feed says "the release date just changed from X to Y" — you do not re-poll ten sites and de-dupe headlines yourself.
• Hype from public aggregate metrics, never scraped posts. Wikipedia pageviews (official Wikimedia API) with a 7-day momentum percentage, optional Rockstar trailer stats via the official YouTube Data API, Google Trends search interest (best-effort), and Kalshi prediction-market odds on the release date holding.
• Rumor signal without rumor scraping. Reputable-outlet articles that cover a leak or insider claim are delivered and tagged rumor: true — reporting about the claim, never the leaked material itself.
• Selector-free, self-healing news parsing. Feeds are parsed by shape (RSS/Atom fields, scored article links), not brittle CSS selectors, so a site redesign degrades to a flagged zero-yield source instead of silently breaking the feed.
• Facts cross-checked each run. The curated, dated fact baseline is checked against Wikidata's release-date claims (P577) every run, so the countdown target stays current.

Compliance and reliability

Topsail actors are built compliance-first and ship with self-healing plumbing:

• robots.txt is always respected — fail-closed. If a robots check cannot complete, the source is skipped, never scraped. There is no input to turn this off.
• Sources are public and permitted only. This actor reads permissively licensed Wikidata facts, syndication-intended news RSS feeds, and official public APIs (Wikimedia pageviews, Kalshi markets, optional YouTube Data API) — never leaked, proprietary, paywalled, or login-gated material.
• Transient failures retry once with backoff; persistent failures are reported, not hidden.
• Every run writes a per-source HEALTH report to the key-value store, so you can see exactly which sources delivered and which were blocked, empty, or erroring.
• No PII, no paywalled or login-gated content, no circumvention.

By design, this actor does not scrape Reddit, forums, or Discord: Reddit blocks automated access and its terms bar resale of its data, and forum robots.txt rules fail-closed at runtime anyway. Insider chatter reaches you as tagged outlet coverage instead.

Pricing

Pay per result: $5.00 per 1,000 dataset results. You pay only for records actually delivered — sources that are robots-blocked, erroring, or empty produce no results and cost nothing. A default run typically yields a few dozen to about 130 records depending on the news cycle, so a scheduled hourly feed costs cents per day.

Honest limits

• The first run emits no development events — there is no previous state to diff against yet.
• Google Trends has no official API; the unofficial endpoint is best-effort, and the metric is simply absent when it fails.
• YouTube trailer statistics require a free YouTube Data API v3 key; without one, that metric is skipped.
• Rockstar's own Newswire exposes no reachable public RSS feed, so official posts surface through the Bing News feed and the confirmed-facts object rather than a direct Newswire source.
• Kalshi's dedicated GTA 6 series (KXGTA6) can be illiquid; the market is still reported, with a null probability and a note.
• Confirmed facts start from a curated, dated baseline (see facts_as_of in the snapshot), cross-checked against Wikidata each run.

FAQ

When does GTA 6 come out? The currently tracked release date is 2026-11-19 (delayed from 2026-05-26). The snapshot carries the live GTA 6 release date countdown, and a development event fires the moment the tracked date changes.

Does it track leaks or insider rumors? No leaked material, ever. Articles from reputable outlets that cover a rumor are included and tagged rumor: true with a note, so you get the insider signal as reporting about it.

Can I power a Discord bot or a countdown website with this? Yes. Schedule the actor and read the dataset or the SNAPSHOT key — the structured JSON is built for GTA 6 countdown sites, Discord bots, and dashboards.

How often should I run it? Hourly to daily for most uses. The developments diff compares against the previous run, so a steady schedule gives the cleanest changelog.

Is this affiliated with Rockstar Games or Take-Two? No. It is an unofficial GTA 6 tracker that aggregates publicly available information and official announcements only.

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