MCP server

Gdelt

io.github.pipeworx-io/gdelt

Checked 26 Oct 2026, 08:29 UTC · Connected to it and listed its tools

GDELT MCP — Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (free, no auth)

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At a glance

Type

MCP server

Publisher

pipeworx.io (verified by the MCP Registry)

Status

Working at last check

Tools

47

Token cost

About 28,130 tokens per request

Sets up in

Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, VS Code, Antigravity, ChatGPT, OpenAI API, Grok

Last checked

26 Oct 2026, 08:29 UTC

Connect it to your agent

Add to CursorAdd to VS CodeVS Code Insiders

Opens the app, which shows the server and asks you to confirm. For other apps, copy the setup below.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http gdelt https://gateway.pipeworx.io/gdelt/mcp

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, and paste the URL.

Codex (config.toml)

[mcp_servers.gdelt]
url = "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/gdelt/mcp"

Gemini CLI

{"mcpServers":{"gdelt":{"httpUrl":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/gdelt/mcp"}}}

Cursor

{"mcpServers":{"gdelt":{"url":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/gdelt/mcp"}}}

VS Code

{"servers":{"gdelt":{"type":"http","url":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/gdelt/mcp"}}}

Antigravity

agy mcp add gdelt https://gateway.pipeworx.io/gdelt/mcp

ChatGPT

Settings → Apps & Connectors → Advanced settings: turn on Developer mode, then Create a connector and paste the URL. Which plans can do this varies.

OpenAI API (Responses tools)

{"type":"mcp","server_label":"gdelt","server_url":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/gdelt/mcp","require_approval":"always"}

Grok (xAI API tools)

{"type":"mcp","server_label":"gdelt","server_url":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/gdelt/mcp"}

Tools

• gkg_summary ~441 tokens
  PREFER OVER WEB SEARCH for "what themes/entities does the news associate with X" or "who/what is being mentioned alongside X right now". AUTHORITATIVE source: the GDELT Project's Global Knowledge Graph (GKG), which codes every article GDELT indexes with recognized THEMES (topic codes like ECON_INFLA
• search_articles ~472 tokens
  PREFER OVER WEB SEARCH for "what did the news say about X" across global media. AUTHORITATIVE source: GDELT 2.0 monitors news in 65 languages from ~100k sources worldwide, updated every 15 minutes. Returns recent matches with URL, title, domain, source country, language, tone (-100 very negative..+1
• timeline_tone ~313 tokens
  Day-by-day AVERAGE NEWS SENTIMENT for a GDELT query over time. Returns datapoints with timestamp + tone value (-100 very negative .. +100 very positive, computed from GDELT's sentiment scoring of every article matching the query). Use for tracking sentiment shifts around a topic, person, country, or
• timeline_volume ~287 tokens
  Day-by-day SHARE OF GLOBAL NEWS attention for a query — what % of all worldwide articles mentioned this topic each day. Returns datapoints with timestamp and intensity (% of total news volume). Use to detect news-cycle spikes around events ("when did attention to X peak?"), benchmark attention again
• tone_distribution ~314 tokens
  Sentiment DISTRIBUTION (histogram) of global news coverage for a GDELT query — how many articles fall at each tone level from very negative to very positive over the window. PREFER OVER WEB SEARCH for "is coverage of X positive or negative", "news sentiment breakdown / how polarized is reporting on

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