gdelt-mcp-server

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Tools

Nine tools across two GDELT APIs — DOC API for global print/web news (last 3 months, 65 languages, no auth) and TV API for US television transcripts (2009–Oct 2024, 150+ stations):

Tool	Description
gdelt_search_articles	Search the last 3 months of global news coverage (65 languages) with full-text and filter operators. Returns up to 250 articles.
gdelt_get_coverage_timeline	Retrieve a time series of coverage volume or average tone for a query. volume_with_articles mode includes top articles per spike timestep.
gdelt_get_tone_distribution	Get a tone histogram (bins ~−30 to +30) showing whether coverage is uniformly negative, bimodal, or clustered near neutral.
gdelt_get_coverage_breakdown	Break down coverage volume by source language or source country — a multi-series time series showing geographic propagation.
gdelt_search_tv	Search US television news closed captions (2009–Oct 2024) and return per-station airtime time series.
gdelt_get_tv_clips	Retrieve up to 3,000 matching TV clips with transcript excerpts and Internet Archive viewing links.
gdelt_get_tv_context	Get the 200 most frequent co-occurring words and phrases from TV clips matching a query.
gdelt_get_tv_trending	Retrieve trending topics currently dominating US television news (updated every 15 minutes; no query required).
gdelt_list_tv_stations	List all TV stations with market, network, and monitoring date ranges to verify station availability before querying.

gdelt_search_articles

Search the last 3 months of global news with GDELT's full query syntax.

• Keywords, phrases ("bird flu"), boolean OR, and exclusion (-sports)
• Filter operators: sourcecountry:, sourcelang:, domain:, theme: (GKG taxonomy), tone</tone>
• Proximity and repetition: near20:"flu virus", repeat3:"outbreak"
• Configurable sort (relevance, date) and result count (up to 250)
• Returns URL, title, publication date, domain, language, source country, and social image URL
• Query is echoed in response for chaining

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gdelt_get_coverage_timeline

Retrieve when coverage of a topic spiked, with three modes:

• volume — normalized percentage of all global coverage per timestep
• volume_with_articles — volume plus top articles driving each spike; use for signal detection without a follow-up search call
• tone — average sentiment score per timestep (combine with gdelt_get_tone_distribution for the full picture)
• Configurable smoothing and time range

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gdelt_get_tone_distribution

Snapshot tone histogram across all articles matching a query.