GDELT Global Events MCP Server

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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 48 days of history · worst day 3%

48 days agonow

3.3%

Uptime 24h

3 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

313 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 11 Jun 2026

GDELT Global Events does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 3.4% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 12 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

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

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://gdelt-events-mcp.atlasword.workers.dev/mcp	streamable-http	answering	140 ms	12 min ago

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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 3 of 91 checks got a reply (3.3%), average response time 313 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 313 ms on average, which is faster than 49% 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?

We cannot say either way: written in TypeScript and 1 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.