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GDELT Global Events MCP Server

io.github.guptaprakhariitr/gdelt-events-mcp
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GDELT Global Events is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 3 tools. Last commit 11 Jun 2026.

Geopolitical event detection, tone timeseries, actor trends from GDELT 2.0.

Uptime history 39 hours of history · worst hour 0%
39 hours agonow
6.6%
Uptime 24h
6 of 91 checks
3
Tools
read from the server
237 ms
Response time
average over 24h
1
Stars
last commit 11 Jun 2026

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 9 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add gdelt-events-mcp --transport http https://gdelt-events-mcp.atlasword.workers.dev/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gdelt-events-mcp": {
      "url": "https://gdelt-events-mcp.atlasword.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.gdelt-events-mcp]
url = "https://gdelt-events-mcp.atlasword.workers.dev/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gdelt-events-mcp": {
      "url": "https://gdelt-events-mcp.atlasword.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gdelt-events-mcp": {
      "url": "https://gdelt-events-mcp.atlasword.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 3

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

gdelt
gdelt_search_events
Search global news for events matching a query. Optionally filter by source country (ISO 2-letter) or domain. Returns recent articles with title, URL, source, language, country, tone.
gdelt_tone_timeseries
Sentiment-tone timeseries for a query. Returns one row per time step (hourly or daily) with the average tone (-10 most negative, +10 most positive) and article volume.
gdelt_trending_actors
Top mentioned named entities (people, organizations, places) in news for a country in the last N hours. Returns name + mentions count.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://gdelt-events-mcp.atlasword.workers.dev/mcp streamable-http answering 237 ms 9 min ago

GDELT Global Events — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can GDELT Global Events do?
It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: gdelt_search_events, gdelt_tone_timeseries, gdelt_trending_actors. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is GDELT Global Events working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 6 of 91 checks got a reply (6.6%), average response time 237 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
The registry lists GDELT Global Events as active — why does it not respond?
The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.
How do I connect GDELT Global Events?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does GDELT Global Events need an API key?
No. GDELT Global Events completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is GDELT Global Events?
It answers our handshake in 237 ms on average, which is faster than 55% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is GDELT Global Events open source?
Yes — it is published under the NOASSERTION licence, written in TypeScript and 1 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.