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gdelt-mcp-server

io.github.cyanheads/gdelt-mcp-server

Search and analyze global news coverage and US TV transcripts via the GDELT Project APIs.

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Uptime
100.0%
4 direct probes · 30d
Response
1253ms
last probe
Tools
9
callable
Resources
0
readable
Prompts
0
available
Primary URL
https://gdelt.caseyjhand.com/mcp
Score: 100/100
Handshake verified by our own probe.
why this score
pass Answers the MCP handshake 50/50
The handshake and the list calls succeeded on the primary URL.
pass Lists tools, resources or prompts 30/30
9 tools, 0 resources, 0 prompts returned.
pass 3 or more catalogue items 10/10
9 items in total; 3 or more earns these points.
pass Describes itself 10/10
89 characters; more than 30 earns these points.

Tools · 9

gdelt_search_articles

Search the last 3 months of global news coverage (65+ languages) using the GDELT DOC API. Fetches up to 250 articles with URL, title, source domain, language, country, publication date, and social ima…

gdelt_get_coverage_timeline

Retrieve a time series showing when news coverage of a topic spiked, or how average tone shifted over time. Use mode "volume" for normalized coverage intensity (% of all global coverage per timestep).…

gdelt_get_tone_distribution

Get the tonal distribution of articles matching a query as a histogram (bins approximately -30 to +30). Unlike a single average tone score, the histogram reveals whether coverage is uniformly negative…

gdelt_get_coverage_breakdown

Break down news coverage volume over time by source language or source country, returning a multi-series time series (one series per language or country). Shows which countries or languages drove earl…

gdelt_search_themes

Find GDELT Global Knowledge Graph (GKG) theme identifiers for the theme: operator that gdelt_search_articles, gdelt_get_coverage_timeline, gdelt_get_tone_distribution, and gdelt_get_coverage_breakdown…

gdelt_search_tv

Search US television news closed captions (2009–October 2024, 150+ stations) for spoken mentions of a query. Returns a bounded, paged per-station time series showing airtime devoted to the topic — up …

gdelt_get_tv_clips

Retrieve the top matching TV news clips for a query from the Internet Archive's Television News Archive: fetches up to 3,000 and returns as many as fit a 48,000-byte response — the rest are counted in…

gdelt_get_tv_context

Get the top co-occurring words and phrases from TV news clips matching a query — the vocabulary framing a topic on television. Returns the most frequent non-stopword terms with relative frequency scor…

gdelt_list_tv_stations

List the television stations available for TV search with their market, network, monitoring start date, and monitoring end date — every station by default, or only those matching the optional stations…

How to use

Add to your Claude Desktop / Cursor / Cline MCP config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gdelt-mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://gdelt.caseyjhand.com/mcp",
      "transport": "http"
    }
  }
}