GDELT API endpoint
Use Crawlora's GDELT Search API to extract supported public GDELT data as structured JSON. This page includes request parameters, cURL examples, response schema, error behavior, credit cost, and a Playground link for testing before integration.
/gdelt/searchSearch the GDELT Project's continuously updated global news Developers commonly use this endpoint for data enrichment, monitoring, research dashboards, internal automation, and agent-native workflows that need repeatable structured public web data. Authentication uses the documented Crawlora headers, and usage is metered with the credit cost shown on this page.
Request parameters are generated from the active endpoint catalog. Required values must be sent before Crawlora can call the upstream public web data source.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| query | string | Yes | GDELT query string. Supports GDELT's own search operators: quoted phrases, (a OR b), theme:NAME, tone<N / tone>N, near20:\ | ||
| country | string | No | Convenience source-country filter, appended to the query as sourcecountry:VALUE. Accepts a GDELT-recognized country name (no spaces) or 2-letter FIPS code. | ||
| language | string | No | Convenience source-language filter, appended to the query as sourcelang:VALUE. Accepts a GDELT-recognized language name or 3-letter code. | ||
| domain | string | No | Convenience domain filter, appended to the query as domain:VALUE. | ||
| timespan | string | No | Relative time window ending now, e.g. 1h, 2d, 1w, 3m. Cannot be combined with from/to. | ||
| from | string | No | Start of an absolute time window. Accepts YYYY-MM-DD, RFC3339, or GDELT's raw YYYYMMDDHHMMSS. Cannot be combined with timespan; GDELT only indexes roughly the last 3 months. | ||
| to | string | No | End of an absolute time window. Same formats as from. | ||
| sort | string | No | Result order. Allowed values: relevance, datedesc, dateasc, tonedesc, toneasc | ||
| maxrecords | integer | No | Rows to return. GDELT's own hard cap is 250; there is no pagination cursor beyond it. Minimum: 1. Maximum: 250. | ||
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/gdelt/search?query=coffee&country=us&language=en&sort=relevance" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Send your scraping API key in the x-api-key header. Use the console API Keys page to rotate or select the active key.
Endpoint usage is metered in credits. The plan prices, included credits, limits, and overage rates below match the active backend billing configuration.
| Plan | Price | Included credits | Daily cap | Rate limit | Overage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 2,000 | 500 daily credits | 5/min | No overage |
| Starter | $9/mo | 20,000 | 5,000 daily credits | 15/min | $0.75/1,000 overage credits when enabled |
| Growth | $29/mo | 100,000 | 25,000 daily credits | 45/min | $0.45/1,000 overage credits when enabled |
| Pro | $79/mo | 400,000 | No daily cap | 120/min | $0.30/1,000 overage credits |
| Business | $199/mo | 1,200,000 | No daily cap | 300/min | $0.20/1,000 overage credits |
| Enterprise | $499/mo | 5,000,000 | No daily cap | 1,000/min | $0.12/1,000 overage credits |
This endpoint is executed through Crawlora's managed scraping infrastructure.
- `count` is the number of articles actually returned (0 is a valid, legitimate "no matches" result, distinct from an upstream error). - `source_url` is the exact upstream GDELT DOC API URL used for the call. - A GDELT-side rate limit or an unrecognized/malformed upstream response surfaces as a `503` upstream error, not a `200` with empty/wrong data. Example response: ```json { "code": 200, "msg": "OK", "data": { "query": "climate change", "sort": "relevance", "maxrecords": 75, "count": 1, "source_url": "https://api.gdeltproject.org/api/v2/doc/doc?format=json&maxrecords=75&mode=artlist&query=climate+change", "fetched_at": "2026-08-20T10:00:00Z", "articles": [ { "url": "https://www.example.com/news/climate-report", "title": "Climate report warns of rising sea levels", "seen_at": "2026-08-19T23:00:00Z", "domain": "example.com", "language": "English", "source_country": "United States", "social_image_url": "https://www.example.com/images/social.jpg" } ] } } ```
Crawlora does not silently return bad data when the upstream page cannot be used.
| Status | Common failure case |
|---|---|
| 400 | Invalid input or missing required parameter |
| 429 | Plan or endpoint rate limit exceeded |
| 500 | Internal execution error |
| 502 | Upstream platform failed, returned unusable HTML, or served a challenge page that could not be resolved |
When possible, Crawlora returns structured error context so your integration can retry, back off, or inspect the request.
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | Bad Request | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 500 | Internal Server Error | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 503 | Service Unavailable | #/definitions/app.Response |
{
"code": 200,
"msg": "OK",
"data": {
"query": "climate change",
"sort": "relevance",
"maxrecords": 75,
"count": 1,
"source_url": "https://api.gdeltproject.org/api/v2/doc/doc?format=json&maxrecords=75&mode=artlist&query=climate+change",
"fetched_at": "2026-08-20T10:00:00Z",
"articles": [
{
"url": "https://www.example.com/news/climate-report",
"title": "Climate report warns of rising sea levels",
"seen_at": "2026-08-19T23:00:00Z",
"domain": "example.com",
"language": "English",
"source_country": "United States",
"social_image_url": "https://www.example.com/images/social.jpg"
}
]
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/gdelt.searchResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| code | integer | No | 200 | |||
| data | gdelt.SearchResponse | No | ||||
| data.articles | array | No | ||||
| data.articles[].domain | string | No | example.com | |||
| data.articles[].language | string | No | English | |||
| data.articles[].seen_at | string | No | 2026-08-19T23:00:00Z | |||
| data.articles[].social_image_url | string | No | https://www.example.com/images/social.jpg | |||
| data.articles[].source_country | string | No | United States | |||
| data.articles[].title | string | No | Climate report warns of rising sea levels | |||
| data.articles[].url | string | No | https://www.example.com/news/climate-report | |||
| data.count | integer | No | 12 | |||
| data.fetched_at | string | No | 2026-08-20T10:00:00Z | |||
| data.maxrecords | integer | No | 75 | |||
| data.query | string | No | climate change | |||
| data.sort | string | No | relevance | |||
| data.source_url | string | No | https://api.gdeltproject.org/api/v2/doc/doc?format=json&maxrecords=75&mode=artlist&query=climate+change | |||
| msg | string | No | OK |
Use environment variables for secrets and keep Crawlora API keys server-side.
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/gdelt/search?query=coffee&country=us&language=en&sort=relevance" \
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