GDELT global news mentions matching Tbilisi

GDELT DOC 2.0 can search worldwide monitored news for Tbilisi and return article-level metadata in JSON. A one-week query returned five representative articles in Chinese, English, Armenian and Russian, including Tbilisi flooding and a municipal demolition decision. Records contain URL, optional mobile URL and social image, title, first-seen timestamp, publisher domain, detected article language and source-country label. This is media-monitoring metadata, not verified event ground truth or a geocoded Tbilisi-event table.

Provenance and access

How the data is reached

Unauthenticated JSON API with query, mode, maximum records, timespan or explicit timestamps. First rapid request returned HTTP 429 with an instruction to limit calls to one every five seconds; a delayed retry returned JSON.

Reuse status

GDELT data/metadata are provided for open use, but linked article text, titles and social images remain subject to publisher copyright and terms. Store links and metadata, not copied articles.

Validated one-week query

https://api.gdeltproject.org/api/v2/doc/doc?query=Tbilisi&mode=artlist&maxrecords=5&format=json&timespan=1week ↗

Method: GET
Format: JSON
Authentication: None

Throttle to one request per five seconds

DOC 2.0 API documentation

https://blog.gdeltproject.org/gdelt-doc-2-0-api-debuts/ ↗

Method: GET
Format: HTML documentation
Authentication: None

Field-level detail

What is actually returned

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DOC response

Article-list mode response.

1 fields

Field / path	Type	Null?	Example	Meaning	Freshness
`articles[]`	array<object>	No	5 records	Matching monitored articles	live

Article

Every field returned in the validated article-list response.

8 fields

Field / path	Type	Null?	Example	Meaning	Freshness
`url`	URL string	No	https://www.archdaily.com/…	Canonical or monitored article URL	reference
`url_mobile`	URL string	Yes		Mobile-version URL when discovered	reference
`title`	string	No	Studio Fuksas Rike Park Cultural Complex Approved for Demolition by Tbilisi City Hall	Article headlinePublisher copyrighted text	live
`seendate`	YYYYMMDDTHHMMSSZ string	No	20260717T114500Z	Time GDELT first/most relevantly saw article	live
`socialimage`	URL string	Yes	https://armtimes.com/static/article/…jpg	Detected social-preview imagePublisher copyrighted and may disappear	reference
`domain`	hostname string	No	archdaily.com	Publisher domain	reference
`language`	string	No	English	Detected article language	derived
`sourcecountry`	string	No	United States	GDELT country attribution for source outletNot the event location	derived

Representative evidence

Sample records

Tbilisi municipal-decision article metadata

Retrieved 2026-07-22 14:01 Asia/Tbilisi

JSON

{"url":"https://www.archdaily.com/1148847/studio-fuksas-rike-park-cultural-complex-approved-for-demolition-by-tbilisi-city-hall","url_mobile":"","title":"Studio Fuksas Rike Park Cultural Complex Approved for Demolition by Tbilisi City Hall","seendate":"20260717T114500Z","socialimage":"","domain":"archdaily.com","language":"English","sourcecountry":"United States"}

Boundaries

Reliability, caveats, and privacy

What held up

Delayed retry returned current multilingual article records
Machine-readable first-seen timestamp and domain support deduplication
Explicit query/time window makes retrieval reproducible

What can go wrong

Keyword match can refer to Tbilisi without describing an event located there
sourcecountry is outlet origin, not article subject location
Duplicate/syndicated stories and machine translation occur
Article and image copyrights remain with publishers
API enforces throttling and returned 429 during validation
News claims need source verification

Privacy boundary

News may name individuals; avoid republishing personal details or treating mentions as verified allegations

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Source trail

Primary pages and documentation

DocumentationGDELT DOC 2.0 API ↗
https://blog.gdeltproject.org/gdelt-doc-2-0-api-debuts/
PrimaryGDELT data site ↗
https://www.gdeltproject.org/data.html