Endpoint Playground

Try the GDELT Television Search API

Test Crawlora's GDELT Television Search API with realistic prefilled parameters. Generate a cURL request, inspect the expected structured JSON response, and open the full docs or pricing page when you are ready to integrate this public web data extraction endpoint into your application.

Endpoint facts

Method: GET
API path: /gdelt/tv-search
Platform: GDELT
Auth: apiKey
Credits: 0 credits/request
Required params: station
Common optional params: transcript, caption, concept, onscreen_text, visual, exclude_transcript

GDELT Television Search API documentation GDELT platform page Crawlora API pricing Try GDELT Context Search API Try GDELT Search API Try GDELT Timeline API Try GDELT Tone Chart API Try GDELT Television Concept Entities API

Prefilled cURL

curl "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/gdelt/tv-search?station=CNN&sort=relevance" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Request parameters visible to crawlers

Parameter	Type	Required	Prefilled value	Description
transcript	array	No		Search machine-generated speech-to-text transcripts (GDELT's asr: operator). Repeatable; multiple values are OR'd together. Short phrases only (GDELT caps each at 5 words).
caption	array	No		Search human-provided closed captioning (GDELT's cap: operator). Repeatable; multiple values are OR'd together.
concept	array	No		Search Google Knowledge Graph concepts extracted from captioning, by MID code (GDELT's capnlp: operator). Repeatable; multiple values are OR'd together.
onscreen_text	array	No		Search OCR'd onscreen text/chyrons (GDELT's ocr: operator). Repeatable; multiple values are OR'd together. Short phrases only (GDELT caps each at 5 words).
visual	array	No		Search visual object/activity labels from computer vision (GDELT's visual: operator). Repeatable; multiple values are OR'd together.
exclude_transcript	array	No		Exclude clips whose speech-to-text transcript matches this value (GDELT's -asr: operator). Repeatable; every value must be absent.
exclude_caption	array	No		Exclude clips whose closed captioning matches this value (GDELT's -cap: operator). Repeatable; every value must be absent.
exclude_concept	array	No		Exclude clips whose extracted concepts match this MID code (GDELT's -capnlp: operator). Repeatable; every value must be absent.
exclude_onscreen_text	array	No		Exclude clips whose OCR'd onscreen text matches this value (GDELT's -ocr: operator). Repeatable; every value must be absent.
exclude_visual	array	No		Exclude clips whose visual labels match this value (GDELT's -visual: operator). Repeatable; every value must be absent.
station	string	Yes	CNN	Station to search.
show	string	No		Limit to an exact show name.
day_of_week	integer	No		Limit to a day of week, 0 (Sunday) through 7 (Saturday), PST.
timespan	string	No		Relative time window ending now, e.g. 1h, 7d, 3m, 1y. Cannot be combined with from/to. GDELT's TV archive starts July 6, 2010.
from	string	No		Start of an absolute time window. Accepts YYYY-MM-DD, RFC3339, or GDELT's raw YYYYMMDDHHMMSS. Cannot be combined with timespan.
to	string	No		End of an absolute time window. Same formats as from.
sort	string	No	relevance	Result order.
maxrecords	integer	No		Rows to return. GDELT's own hard cap is 3000 for this endpoint; there is no pagination cursor beyond it.

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "query": "cap:\"climate change\" station:CNN",
    "station": "CNN",
    "sort": "relevance",
    "maxrecords": 50,
    "count": 1,
    "source_url": "https://api.gdeltproject.org/api/v2/tvai/tvai?format=json&maxrecords=50&mode=clipgallery&query=cap%3A%22climate+change%22+station%3ACNN",
    "fetched_at": "2026-08-20T10:00:00Z",
    "clips": [
      {
        "station": "cnn",
        "show": "Inside Politics",
        "show_start_at": "2019-05-03T16:00:00Z",
        "matched_at": "2019-05-03T17:00:56Z",
        "transcript": "climate change the",
        "caption": "climate",
        "onscreen_text": "SWEEPING PLAN LIVE",
        "visual_entities": [
          "person",
          "news",
          "facial expression"
        ],
        "clip_url": "https://archive.org/details/CNNW_20190503_160000_Inside_Politics/start/3656",
        "thumbnail_url": "http://data.gdeltproject.org/televisionexplorer/thumbnails/CNNW_20190503_160000_Inside_Politics-003656.jpg"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Public Playground

Preview the endpoint before sending a live request

Sample responses, schemas, request previews, and code snippets are visible before sign in. Create an account when you are ready to save an API key and run authenticated requests.

Set up API key Endpoint docs

Endpoint

Choose one catalog endpoint for this request.

1 shown

Group

Method

Auth

Endpoint

GETapiKey0 credits/requestgdelt.tvSearchResponseDocGDELT

GET /gdelt/tv-search

Search US television news coverage (transcripts, captions, OCR, visual labels)

Search GDELT's Television 2.0 AI index of US television news

API key required. Paste a full key or rotate one from the API Keys page.

Set up API key

View docs

API key

API key required for live requests. Your key is only used to send requests from this Playground.

not configured

Active Playground key: not configured

Manage API keys in Console

Required query parameters

station

requiredstring

Station to search.

Add an API key to send a live request.

If an active API key is configured, Copy cURL includes it. Share links never include API keys.

View docs

Sample responseGET

Shown before your first request. Add an API key and send a request to see the live response, status, latency, and headers.

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "query": "cap:\"climate change\" station:CNN",
    "station": "CNN",
    "sort": "relevance",
    "maxrecords": 50,
    "count": 1,
    "source_url": "https://api.gdeltproject.org/api/v2/tvai/tvai?format=json&maxrecords=50&mode=clipgallery&query=cap%3A%22climate+change%22+station%3ACNN",
    "fetched_at": "2026-08-20T10:00:00Z",
    "clips": [
      {
        "station": "cnn",
        "show": "Inside Politics",
        "show_start_at": "2019-05-03T16:00:00Z",
        "matched_at": "2019-05-03T17:00:56Z",
        "transcript": "climate change the",
        "caption": "climate",
        "onscreen_text": "SWEEPING PLAN LIVE",
        "visual_entities": [
          "person",
          "news",
          "facial expression"
        ],
        "clip_url": "https://archive.org/details/CNNW_20190503_160000_Inside_Politics/start/3656",
        "thumbnail_url": "http://data.gdeltproject.org/televisionexplorer/thumbnails/CNNW_20190503_160000_Inside_Politics-003656.jpg"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Endpoint details

Search GDELT's Television 2.0 AI index of US television news

Method: GET
Path: /gdelt/tv-search
Authentication: apiKey
Credit cost: 0 credits/request
Platform: GDELT
Parameters: 19 documented fields

Request parameters

transcript:querycaption:queryconcept:queryonscreen_text:queryvisual:queryexclude_transcript:queryexclude_caption:queryexclude_concept:queryexclude_onscreen_text:queryexclude_visual:querystation:queryshow:query+7 more

Response schema fields

codedatadata.clipsdata.clips[].captiondata.clips[].caption_conceptsdata.clips[].clip_urldata.clips[].matched_atdata.clips[].onscreen_textdata.clips[].showdata.clips[].show_start_atdata.clips[].stationdata.clips[].thumbnail_url

Sample response summary

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "query": "cap:\"climate change\" station:CNN",
    "station": "CNN",
    "sort": "relevance",
    "maxrecords": 50,
    "count": 1,
    "source_url": "https://api.gdeltproject.org/api/v2/tvai/tvai?format=json&maxrecords=50&mode=clipgallery&query=cap%3A%22climate+change%22+station%3ACNN",
    "fetched_at": "2026-08-20T10:00:00Z",
    "clips": [
      {
        "station": "cnn",
        "show": "Inside Politics",
        "show_start_at": "2019-05-03T16:00:00Z",
        "matched_at": "2019-05-03T17:00:56Z",
        "transcript": "climate change the",
        "caption": "climate",
        "onscreen_text": "SWEEPING PLAN LIVE",
        "visual_entities": [
          "person",
          "news",
          "facial expression"
        ],
        "clip_url": "https://archive.org/details/CNNW_20190503_160000_Inside_Politics/start/3656",
        "thumbnail_url": "http://data.gdeltproject.org/televisionexplorer/thumbnails/CNNW_20190503_160000_Inside_Politics-003656.jpg"
      }
    ]
  }
}

cURL example

curl "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/gdelt/tv-search?station=<station>" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

View endpoint docs Open platform page Browse all endpoints Pricing Sentence-level co-occurrence search across recent GDELT coverage Search global news coverage indexed by GDELT Coverage volume or tone over time for a GDELT query Sentiment histogram for a GDELT query List GDELT Television 2.0 AI concept entities

Try the GDELT Television Search API

Endpoint facts

Method: GET
API path: /gdelt/tv-search
Platform: GDELT
Auth: apiKey
Credits: 0 credits/request
Required params: station
Common optional params: transcript, caption, concept, onscreen_text, visual, exclude_transcript

Prefilled cURL

curl "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/gdelt/tv-search?station=CNN&sort=relevance" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Request parameters visible to crawlers

Parameter	Type	Required	Prefilled value	Description
transcript	array	No		Search machine-generated speech-to-text transcripts (GDELT's asr: operator). Repeatable; multiple values are OR'd together. Short phrases only (GDELT caps each at 5 words).
caption	array	No		Search human-provided closed captioning (GDELT's cap: operator). Repeatable; multiple values are OR'd together.
concept	array	No		Search Google Knowledge Graph concepts extracted from captioning, by MID code (GDELT's capnlp: operator). Repeatable; multiple values are OR'd together.
onscreen_text	array	No		Search OCR'd onscreen text/chyrons (GDELT's ocr: operator). Repeatable; multiple values are OR'd together. Short phrases only (GDELT caps each at 5 words).
visual	array	No		Search visual object/activity labels from computer vision (GDELT's visual: operator). Repeatable; multiple values are OR'd together.
exclude_transcript	array	No		Exclude clips whose speech-to-text transcript matches this value (GDELT's -asr: operator). Repeatable; every value must be absent.
exclude_caption	array	No		Exclude clips whose closed captioning matches this value (GDELT's -cap: operator). Repeatable; every value must be absent.
exclude_concept	array	No		Exclude clips whose extracted concepts match this MID code (GDELT's -capnlp: operator). Repeatable; every value must be absent.
exclude_onscreen_text	array	No		Exclude clips whose OCR'd onscreen text matches this value (GDELT's -ocr: operator). Repeatable; every value must be absent.
exclude_visual	array	No		Exclude clips whose visual labels match this value (GDELT's -visual: operator). Repeatable; every value must be absent.
station	string	Yes	CNN	Station to search.
show	string	No		Limit to an exact show name.
day_of_week	integer	No		Limit to a day of week, 0 (Sunday) through 7 (Saturday), PST.
timespan	string	No		Relative time window ending now, e.g. 1h, 7d, 3m, 1y. Cannot be combined with from/to. GDELT's TV archive starts July 6, 2010.
from	string	No		Start of an absolute time window. Accepts YYYY-MM-DD, RFC3339, or GDELT's raw YYYYMMDDHHMMSS. Cannot be combined with timespan.
to	string	No		End of an absolute time window. Same formats as from.
sort	string	No	relevance	Result order.
maxrecords	integer	No		Rows to return. GDELT's own hard cap is 3000 for this endpoint; there is no pagination cursor beyond it.

Example JSON response

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "query": "cap:\"climate change\" station:CNN",
    "station": "CNN",
    "sort": "relevance",
    "maxrecords": 50,
    "count": 1,
    "source_url": "https://api.gdeltproject.org/api/v2/tvai/tvai?format=json&maxrecords=50&mode=clipgallery&query=cap%3A%22climate+change%22+station%3ACNN",
    "fetched_at": "2026-08-20T10:00:00Z",
    "clips": [
      {
        "station": "cnn",
        "show": "Inside Politics",
        "show_start_at": "2019-05-03T16:00:00Z",
        "matched_at": "2019-05-03T17:00:56Z",
        "transcript": "climate change the",
        "caption": "climate",
        "onscreen_text": "SWEEPING PLAN LIVE",
        "visual_entities": [
          "person",
          "news",
          "facial expression"
        ],
        "clip_url": "https://archive.org/details/CNNW_20190503_160000_Inside_Politics/start/3656",
        "thumbnail_url": "http://data.gdeltproject.org/televisionexplorer/thumbnails/CNNW_20190503_160000_Inside_Politics-003656.jpg"
      }
    ]
  }
}

{ "code": 200, "msg": "OK", "data": { "query": "cap:\"climate change\" station:CNN", "station": "CNN", "sort": "relevance", "maxrecords": 50, "count": 1, "source_url": "https://api.gdeltproject.org/api/v2/tvai/tvai?format=json&maxrecords=50&mode=clipgallery&query=cap%3A%22climate+change%22+station%3ACNN", "fetched_at": "2026-08-20T10:00:00Z", "clips": [ { "station": "cnn", "show": "Inside Politics", "show_start_at": "2019-05-03T16:00:00Z", "matched_at": "2019-05-03T17:00:56Z", "transcript": "climate change the", "caption": "climate", "onscreen_text": "SWEEPING PLAN LIVE", "visual_entities": [ "person", "news", "facial expression" ], "clip_url": "https://archive.org/details/CNNW_20190503_160000_Inside_Politics/start/3656", "thumbnail_url": "http://data.gdeltproject.org/televisionexplorer/thumbnails/CNNW_20190503_160000_Inside_Politics-003656.jpg" } ] } }

Endpoint details

Search GDELT's Television 2.0 AI index of US television news

Method: GET
Path: /gdelt/tv-search
Authentication: apiKey
Credit cost: 0 credits/request
Platform: GDELT
Parameters: 19 documented fields

Request parameters

Response schema fields

Sample response summary

{
  "code": 200,
  "msg": "OK",
  "data": {
    "query": "cap:\"climate change\" station:CNN",
    "station": "CNN",
    "sort": "relevance",
    "maxrecords": 50,
    "count": 1,
    "source_url": "https://api.gdeltproject.org/api/v2/tvai/tvai?format=json&maxrecords=50&mode=clipgallery&query=cap%3A%22climate+change%22+station%3ACNN",
    "fetched_at": "2026-08-20T10:00:00Z",
    "clips": [
      {
        "station": "cnn",
        "show": "Inside Politics",
        "show_start_at": "2019-05-03T16:00:00Z",
        "matched_at": "2019-05-03T17:00:56Z",
        "transcript": "climate change the",
        "caption": "climate",
        "onscreen_text": "SWEEPING PLAN LIVE",
        "visual_entities": [
          "person",
          "news",
          "facial expression"
        ],
        "clip_url": "https://archive.org/details/CNNW_20190503_160000_Inside_Politics/start/3656",
        "thumbnail_url": "http://data.gdeltproject.org/televisionexplorer/thumbnails/CNNW_20190503_160000_Inside_Politics-003656.jpg"
      }
    ]
  }
}

cURL example

curl "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/gdelt/tv-search?station=<station>" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"