GDELT DOC 2.0 API

Name: GDELT DOC 2.0 API API
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For Agents

Search global news coverage across 65 languages from the last three months and retrieve articles, time-lines, tone charts, or image collages from the GDELT 2.0 dataset.

Connect the GDELT DOC 2.0 API to your agent

Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the GDELT DOC 2.0 API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.

Install Jentic One Beta (Self-Hosted)

Jentic One Host machine

# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh

Agent machine

# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh
jentic register       # connects your agent to your Jentic One instance

Jentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with GDELT DOC 2.0 API API.

Search global news articles by keyword across 65 languages and 3 months of coverage

Filter results by source country, language, theme, location, or domain

Return matching articles as a list with title, source, and tone score

Generate a time-line of article volume for a query over the searched window

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Use for: Search global news for articles mentioning a company in the last week, I want to plot a daily volume of coverage for a topic, Get a tone chart showing sentiment about a country's elections, Find news articles from a specific source language about a topic

Not supported: Does not handle real-time push of new articles, deep historical archives beyond 3 months, or full article body retrieval — use for global news search and aggregate analysis only.

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI document for GDELT DOC 2.0 API, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI specification for GDELT DOC 2.0 API, keeping it validated and agent-ready. The GDELT DOC 2.0 API exposes full-text search across the entire GDELT 2.0 universe — the world's largest open dataset of global news coverage, spanning a rolling three-month window across 65 languages. The single /doc/doc endpoint supports rich query operators and multiple output modes (article list, image collage, time-line, tone chart, word cloud) with no authentication required, making it a foundational primitive for media monitoring, geopolitical research, and event-driven analytics.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use GDELT DOC 2.0 API API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Media Monitoring at Global Scale

Run a media monitoring brief that covers global news in 65 languages for a brand, executive, or topic — far wider than English-only press monitoring tools. The /doc/doc endpoint supports keyword and theme queries with country and language filters, returning matching articles with source, URL, and tone score for downstream analysis or alerting.

GET /doc/doc?query="acme corporation"&mode=ArtList&maxrecords=250&format=json to fetch the latest 250 matching articles across all languages

Geopolitical and Market Research

Track global coverage volume and tone around events relevant to investing or policy: elections, sanctions, conflict, supply chain disruption. The TimelineVol mode returns daily counts and the TimelineTone mode returns sentiment, enabling charts that contextualise market or policy responses against actual news flow.

GET /doc/doc?query="central bank rate hike"&mode=TimelineTone&timespan=1month to plot tone of coverage over the last month

Event Detection for Analytics

Detect emerging stories around competitors, regulators, or markets by polling GDELT for sudden spikes in coverage volume on tracked queries. Pair the /doc/doc TimelineVol mode with a baseline computed from prior weeks to flag anomalies. A practical and cheap alternative to paid news terminals for analytics workloads.

GET /doc/doc?query="competitor product recall"&mode=TimelineVol&timespan=1week and compare daily volumes against the prior 4-week baseline to detect a spike

AI Research Agent via Jentic

An AI research or briefing agent can call GDELT through Jentic to answer "what's been said about X globally in the last week?" The single /doc/doc endpoint with structured query and mode parameters fits cleanly into agent tool schemas, and Jentic surfaces it as a discoverable operation requiring no credentials.

Search Jentic for 'search global news', load the GET /doc/doc schema, and execute with query and mode=ArtList to return ranked article hits

Key Endpoints

1 endpoints — jentic publishes the only available openapi specification for gdelt doc 2.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/doc/doc

Search global news articles with mode-controlled output (ArtList, TimelineVol, TimelineTone, ImageCollage, etc.)

GET

/doc/doc

Search global news articles with mode-controlled output (ArtList, TimelineVol, TimelineTone, ImageCollage, etc.)

Why though Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

GDELT DOC 2.0 has no credential. Jentic still exposes the operation through the same vault-and-resolution path so the calling pattern is identical to credentialed APIs and rate limiting can be enforced centrally.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search by intent like 'search global news' and Jentic returns the GET /doc/doc operation with its query and mode parameters, ready to execute.

Time to first call

Direct GDELT integration: 1-2 hours to learn the query operator syntax and choose modes. Through Jentic: under 15 minutes — search, load schema, execute.

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Alternative

NewsAPI

Aggregated English-language news search across major outlets with simpler query model

Choose NewsAPI when the workload is English-only and needs cleaner publisher metadata; choose GDELT when global multilingual coverage and time-line/tone modes matter.

Complementary

Data.gov

US federal data catalogue useful for cross-referencing GDELT coverage of policy events with the underlying datasets

Use Data.gov alongside GDELT when correlating news coverage with the actual federal data behind the story (e.g. economic releases, regulatory filings).

Complementary

NASA APOD

Open scientific dataset useful for projects pairing GDELT geopolitical coverage with science and exploration context

Use NASA APOD when a project layers science-and-discovery imagery into research dashboards driven primarily by GDELT news search.

FAQs

Specific to using GDELT DOC 2.0 API API through Jentic.

Why is there no official OpenAPI spec for GDELT DOC 2.0 API?

GDELT publishes narrative documentation rather than an OpenAPI spec. Jentic generates and maintains this spec so that AI agents and developers can call GDELT DOC 2.0 API via structured tooling. It is validated against the live API and kept up to date. Get started at https://app.jentic.com/sign-up.

What authentication does the GDELT DOC 2.0 API use?

GDELT DOC 2.0 is an open API and requires no authentication. Calls go directly to api.gdeltproject.org with no API key. Through Jentic, the operation is still surfaced as a discoverable tool, but no credential is required at execution.

How far back does GDELT DOC 2.0 search go?

The DOC 2.0 endpoint covers a rolling three-month window of global news. For longer historical research, GDELT also publishes raw event and GKG bulk files separately, but those are outside the scope of the /doc/doc endpoint exposed here.

What output modes does the /doc/doc endpoint support?

The mode parameter controls the output: ArtList returns matching articles, TimelineVol returns daily article volume, TimelineTone returns daily sentiment, ImageCollage returns extracted images, and WordCloudTheme returns a thematic word cloud. Mode is selected on the same single endpoint.

How do I run a GDELT search through Jentic?

Run pip install jentic, then search 'search global news'. Jentic returns the GET /doc/doc operation. Execute with the query, mode (e.g. ArtList), and timespan parameters; no credential is required and Jentic returns the structured response.

What query operators does the API support?

Queries support phrase quoting, boolean AND/OR, source country (sourcecountry), source language (sourcelang), GDELT themes (theme), and locations (locationcc). Combine these in the query parameter; the timespan parameter sets the window inside the rolling 3 months.