MCP server for the @agentutility web-probe cluster — pay-per-call x402 tools, no API keys, USDC on Base.
from $12/mo
Tools
gdelt_search_articles
Search the last 3 months of global news coverage (65+ languages) using the GDELT DOC API. Returns up to 250 articles with URL, title, source domain, language, country, publication date, and social image URL. Query supports full GDELT syntax: phrases ("bird flu"), boolean OR ((flu OR pandemic)), source country (sourcecountry:china), source language (sourcelang:spanish), domain (domain:who.int), GKG
ArgumentsA call is made on an account: it counts against an allowance and the publisher sees it, which is why this one asks who you are first.
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uptime 90d
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What it does
Search and analyze worldwide news coverage and US television transcripts via the GDELT Project.
Quickstart
# 1 — install (mcprush login holds a key from your dashboard)
npx mcprush@latest add gdelt-global-news-mcp
# 2 — ask your agent something
> Search and analyze worldwide news coverage and US television transcripts via the GDELT Project.
GDELT Global News is free: there is no plan to choose, no cap to set and nothing that can bill you.
Publishernot claimed
GDAll 1 server
gdelt.caseyjhand.com1 server
1 category
Collected from a public index. Nobody has claimed this account, so nothing here was written by its author — claim it if it is yours.
Installation
Where are you running it?
Every route below installs the same thing and ends at the same approval screen. Nothing here runs on your machine — this server runs on the publisher’s own infrastructure behind our gateway, and what you install is the connection to it.
Claude Codedeclared by this listing
This is a public server: you run it yourself and this marketplace is not in the path. Claude Code registers it in one command.
claude mcp add --transport http gdelt-global-news-mcp https://gdelt.caseyjhand.com/mcpReconnect, or start a new session, and the tools appear in the model’s tool list.
Free to install, and it runs from its publisher’s own package: no account, no key, no card.
What it writes
One config entry pointing at the gateway. The server itself runs on the publisher’s own infrastructure, so nothing from this listing executes on your machine.
What you approve
9 tools, with what each one reads, writes and reaches shown before you agree — the same list on every route above. Read the tool surface.
Tool surface
What the model actually sees. Descriptions are diffed on every release — see version history.
Search the last 3 months of global news coverage (65+ languages) using the GDELT DOC API. Returns up to 250 articles with URL, title, source domain, language, country, publication date, and social image URL. Query supports full GDELT syntax: phrases ("bird flu"), boolean OR ((flu OR pandemic)), source country (sourcecountry:china), source language (sourcelang:spanish), domain (domain:who.int), GKG
Takes no parameters.
Example callreturns →
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). Use mode "volume_with_articles" for the same signal plus the top articles that drove each spike — this is the primary signal-detection mode: a single call reveals both the spike and its cause, avoidi
Takes no parameters.
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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, bimodal (some articles extremely positive and some extremely negative), or clustered near neutral. Each bin includes representative article URLs. Distinct from gdelt_get_coverage_timeline (mode: ton
Takes no parameters.
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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 early vs. late coverage — useful for tracing how a story propagated geographically or across language communities. Returns up to 10 series by total volume and aggregates the rest into an "Other" bucket, n
Takes no parameters.
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Search US television news closed captions (2009–October 2024, 150+ stations) for spoken mentions of a query. Returns a normalized per-station time series showing relative airtime devoted to the topic. Use the stations parameter to select networks (e.g. ["CNN", "FOXNEWS", "MSNBC"]) — the TV API requires at least one station, supplied either there or as a station: selector inside query. TV query als
Takes no parameters.
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Retrieve the top matching TV news clips (up to 3,000) for a query from the Internet Archive's Television News Archive. Each clip includes show name, station, air timestamp, a 15-second transcript excerpt, and a direct link to view the full one-minute clip. Use after gdelt_search_tv to read the actual transcript content driving a coverage spike. 3,000 is a hard per-call ceiling and GDELT offers no
Takes no parameters.
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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 from matching clips, with relative frequency scores (0–100, where 100 = the query term itself). Use to understand narrative framing, identify related concepts mentioned alongside a topic, or generate follow-up search terms. TV d
Takes no parameters.
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Retrieve trending topics, keywords, and phrases currently dominating US television news across national networks. No query required — returns the top memes of the present news cycle. Updated every 15 minutes. Note: the GDELT TV archive feed stopped updating around October 2024; results from this endpoint reflect that most-recent archived data rather than a live feed.
Takes no parameters.
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List all television stations available for TV search with their market, network, monitoring start date, and monitoring end date. Stations with an end date within the last 24 hours are flagged as active; stations with earlier end dates are discontinued. Use before querying to verify a station was active during the target time period, or to discover valid station IDs for the stations parameter in ot
Takes no parameters.
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Freeyour plan
$0 forever
- Every tool, no call limit
- No card, no account needed
- Source published under a licence you can read
- Runs on your machine — nothing of it reaches our gateway
- Nothing to cap, because nothing bills
What counts against your monthly calls
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Nothing here is billable. GDELT Global News costs nothing to install and nothing to call, at any volume.
Call allowance · this installenforced at the gateway
Monthly allowance, in calls
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Alert at 80% · then the tool returns a normal MCP error
Used this month: $8.42
$16.58 left
—Grade not published
No rule-by-rule report on file for this release
Two independent axes, because powerful and malicious are different questions. The grade is threat only. The capability level is blast radius, and it is never a penalty on the grade — it is priced as one subtract-only term in the score, where you can see it.
This listing is a hosted endpoint: the publisher runs it and we connect to it. The scanner reads packages and source, and neither exists to read here, so there is no grade — not a withheld one, an unmeasured one. What can be checked instead is on Installation: what it asks to reach and what it writes.
Release history
Pinned to 0.2.7 — the install command below asks for that release. A pin is part of an install, so it is kept for this visit and written down when you install.
0.2.7
undated
installedNo release note was published with this version.
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Nobody has reviewed this listing. The rating on the card is the mean of the reviews written here and nothing else, so there is no rating until somebody writes the first — which takes an account with 50 real tool calls against it.