tv-radio-media
GDELT
A global news-monitoring project that tracks events and tone across world media, including television news. Its document API is keyless, so our search queries it directly in addition to linking to the project site. Use it to find news coverage of an event across many countries and outlets at once.
Why it’s useful & how it works
GDELT is most useful when you want to trace how a story or event was covered across dozens of countries and languages simultaneously. It monitors broadcast, print, and web news from nearly every country in over 100 languages and machine-translates 65 of them into English in real time, letting you search foreign-language coverage without speaking the language. Echo surfaces GDELT results alongside other archives; clicking through takes you to its search tools where you can filter by country, language, tone, or date range.
What’s inside
GDELT monitors global news continuously and has indexed hundreds of millions of articles and broadcasts since 2015. Its Television Explorer, powered by the Internet Archive's TV News collection, covers more than 9.5 million broadcasts and 6.6 million hours of television news from over 50 countries.
API access
https://api.gdeltproject.org/api/v2/doc/doc?query=&format=json (keyless)
What we measured
Our own probes, not the archive’s own claims. Re-run periodically; every reading below is dated.
Reachability
- Direct request
- Responded HTTP 200 800 ms
- Through a datacenter proxy
- Responded HTTP 200 839 ms
- API, direct
- Rate-limited HTTP 429 11.7 s
- API, through a proxy
- Responded HTTP 200 18.3 s
Did a real search return anything?
The request failed · median 379 ms · down during the run
fetch failed: Request was cancelled.
Benchmark coverage
Found 1 of 10 test items (10%) in the Web full-text cluster. Median response 11.7 s.
By how well known the item is: 1/3 well-known, 0/4 mid, 0/3 obscure .
One item it found: Giá cà phê hôm nay 1 / 8 : Giá cà phê cao nhất ở mức 96 . 800 đồng / kg
Reachability measured 2026-08-22. Search checked 2026-08-22. Benchmark run 2026-08-22.
Access
Programmatic API access (a key may be required, see the API tag).