Engineering manualAcquisition and cost
GDELT · conditional
public_or_local · runnable · billing free
| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Provider | public_or_local |
| Module | base |
| Runnable today | Yes — a quantity-bound adapter exists |
| API path | Not a single fixed path |
| Billing kind | free |
| Price status | Known — a published or measured rate is recorded |
| Availability | Selectable explicitly; parked in default reports |
| Query contract | Declarative — the contract describes this item but the code that issues its requests does not read it |
| Catalogue research date | 2026-09-07 |
Billing formula
What the provider charges for one request of this item. Provider cost is not the customer price and is not an account balance movement; the three are different numbers and this is the first of them.
0 vendor USD
Rates
| Component | Value |
|---|---|
vendor_usd | 0 |
Provider limits: {}
Rate verification: verified_published.
Caveat: Does not include compute, hosting, egress, storage, rate limits, access approval or optional model interpretation. It is not unlimited free hosted scraping.
Runtime limits
| Limit | Value |
|---|---|
quantity | 1 |
groups | 1 |
Frozen acquisition parameters
Zero provider cost. GDELT news coverage and tone for the brand name over the recent window.
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Fixed parameters | {"key_required":false,"paid_provider_keys":"withheld","reputation_tier":1,"bounds":"collector_constants"} |
| Server-side filters | None |
| Order by | None |
| Page window | 1 |
| Varies by target | brand_name, domain |
Dated sources
https://www.gdeltproject.org/(read 2026-09-07)
Notes from the catalogue
- $0 incremental third-party vendor fee for the defined local/public operation only. Hosting, compute, storage, labor, access approvals and optional models are excluded.
- Retained as an explicit optional source. Parked in all default levels: gdelt_refuses_this_network_http_429. A refused or throttled lookup is not verified absence.