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Stanford GDELT MCP. Map Global Media Events & Themes.

Stanford GDELT MCP gives you access to the world's largest open dataset for monitoring global news media coverage in real time. Track how stories spread across countries, languages, and political themes, analyzing everything from sentiment shifts to geographic hotspots. Use this MCP to turn raw global data into actionable intelligence for journalists, policy makers, and PR teams.

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Map Global Coverage

Pinpoint news events and measure media focus using coordinates or heatmap overlays.

Analyze Topic Trends Over Time

Track how the volume, sentiment, or language coverage of a specific subject changes over months or years.

Identify Thematic Hotspots

Classify news content using hundreds of standardized themes covering politics, health, and economics.

Deep Dive into Language/Region Spread

Determine which countries or linguistic communities are generating the most coverage on a topic.

Monitor TV vs. Online Narrative Shifts

Compare how stories are covered in closed-captioned television news versus general online articles.

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What AI agents can do with Stanford GDELT: 16 Tools for Global Data

These tools let your agent perform highly specific data analysis, from mapping geographical hotspots to tracking sentiment changes over time.

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Get Geo Data

Retrieves geographic point data for news events, showing coordinates and location names for mapping.

Get Tv Channels

Lists available TV news channels to understand the scope of broadcast analysis.

Get Tv Timeline

Tracks how much airtime specific stories receive on television compared to general...

Get Themes

Retrieves standardized GDELT themes, classifying news content across broad topics...

Get Timeline Country

Shows the source country distribution timeline to identify which nations are...

Get Timeline Lang

Provides a language distribution timeline, showing how different linguistic communities cover a topic over time.

Get Timeline Tone

Generates a sentiment and tone timeline to track public opinion shifts related to any given subject.

Get Timeline Volume

Provides the news volume timeline, which tracks overall media attention spikes and...

Get Tone Chart

Generates a tone distribution chart to visualize if coverage is mostly positive...

Get Word Cloud

Extracts the dominant key terms and concepts associated with a topic in media...

Search Articles

Searches global news articles using filters for date range, language, country, or...

Search By Country

Narrows the search results to only include news published from a specific country code.

Search By Language

Limits searches to articles written in one of over 100 specified language codes.

Search By Theme

Filters news results based on standardized topic categories like ENVIRONMENT or...

Search Nearby

Searches for articles where two specific terms appear near each other, providing a...

Search Tv

Finds and analyzes transcripts from major television news networks using keywords.

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Stanford GDELT MCP is compatible with Claude

Claude AI

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Open Claude Settings

Go to claude.ai, click your profile icon, then navigate to Customize → Connectors.

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Add Custom Connector

Click the "+" button and select Add custom connector. Paste your Vinkius endpoint URL:

https://edge.vinkius.com/[YOUR_TOKEN_HERE]/mcp

Replace [YOUR_TOKEN_HERE] with your token from cloud.vinkius.com. For OAuth-protected servers, expand Advanced settings to add credentials.

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Start a conversation

Open a new chat. The Stanford GDELT integration is available immediately — no restart needed.

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Mapping Global Attention Spreads Is Hard

Right now, tracking a single story across the world means jumping through endless dashboards. You open one tab for US news, another for Chinese media reports, and yet another to check sentiment via a separate dashboard. Copying dates, filtering languages, and trying to manually correlate how coverage shifts from online articles to broadcast TV is tedious at best.

With this MCP, your agent handles the entire process. You give it the topic, and it executes multiple data calls—running get_timeline_volume for spikes, then getting_geo_data for locations, and finally using search_by_theme to categorize the whole narrative. You get a single, synthesized answer, not three dozen links.

Analyze Coverage With The GDELT Theme Distribution

Manually analyzing themes across different articles is nearly impossible. You'd have to read hundreds of headlines and manually categorize them into 'ECONOMICS,' 'HEALTH,' or 'PROTEST.' This requires specialized human labor just for categorization.

Now, you use get_themes. Your agent runs the classification against massive datasets, instantly telling you that 40% of the coverage falls under 'ECONOMIC_BANKRUPTCY' and 25% is tagged as 'HEALTH_PANDEMIC.' You skip the reading and go straight to the insights.

What Stanford GDELT MCP does for your AI

This connector links your AI client directly to the GDELT Project API, giving you a direct line to billions of records of global news coverage. You can monitor what's happening worldwide by analyzing articles across 100+ languages, tracking specific themes like climate change or elections, and seeing exactly where media attention is focused geographically.

It’s far more than just searching; it helps you map the story itself—who reported it, how they felt about it (the tone), and which nations are paying attention. If you're relying on manual dashboards or basic search engines to track global events, this MCP changes that. Through Vinkius, you connect your agent once and gain instant access to this massive data catalog, letting your AI client do the heavy lifting of complex cross-cultural analysis for you.

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Frequently asked questions about Stanford GDELT MCP

Can I track sentiment over time using Stanford GDELT MCP? +

Yes. Use get_timeline_tone. This tool tracks how public opinion changes around a topic, providing positive and negative values so you can monitor shifts in brand reputation or political favor.

Does Stanford GDELT MCP support keyword searching across multiple languages? +

Yes. You use search_articles by combining language codes (like 'english' and 'spanish') with a date range to gather global coverage on the same issue.

How do I find out which country is most interested in an issue? +

Use get_timeline_country. This tool analyzes source country distribution, showing you exactly when and where media attention for a given topic originates globally.

Is Stanford GDELT MCP only for major news outlets? +

No. It covers global news sources across 100+ languages and includes specialized searches like search_tv, which pulls transcripts from networks such as CNN and BBC.

What is the best way to compare two topics in GDELT? +

Start by using get_timeline_volume for both topics over the same time frame. This lets you graph their attention spikes against each other, revealing correlation or divergence.