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post/news-intel/v1/search1 credit

Global news search across GDELT (+ optionally merged Google-News-RSS), de-duplicated into one unified article shape. The core 'what's the news on X' call. Filter by timespan/language/country/sort; each article carries title, url, source_domain, published_at, language, snippet, image, duplicate_count, also_reported_by[].

Working example
Parameters

Free-text search across global news. GDELT operators are passed through (e.g. 'tesla OR ford', '"exact phrase"', 'domainis:bbc.com', 'sourcelang:spanish', 'theme:TERROR'). Case-insensitive.

How far back to search (GDELT timespan). Accepts Nh/Nd/Nw/Nm or minute forms like '30min'. Note GDELT covers ~last 3 months; default 1d.

Restrict to a source language (2-letter code → GDELT sourcelang). GDELT indexes 65+ languages; common ones listed. Omit for all languages.

Restrict to a source country (GDELT FIPS country code, e.g. US, UK, FR, IN, BR). Omit for global. For top_headlines this is the Google-News edition.

Result ordering (GDELT sort). Ranking is GDELT's own — we add no AI re-rank.

Max articles to fetch per source before de-dup (1-250, default 50). Larger values are clamped to 250 (GDELT ceiling). (1–250)

Also fetch Google-News-RSS for this query and merge+de-dup with GDELT (near-live coverage). Default true. Set false for GDELT-only.

Collapse the same story from many outlets (exact-url + host+path + near-duplicate title clustering). Default true. Survivors carry duplicate_count + also_reported_by[]. Set false for the raw firehose.

Title near-duplicate threshold for clustering (stemmed token-set Jaccard, 0.3-1.0). Higher = stricter (fewer merges). Default 0.6 — tuned for precision 1.0 + max recall (notes/dedup_quality.json). (0.3–1)

request preview
curl -X POST https://api.reefapi.com/news-intel/v1/search \
  -H "x-api-key: $REEF_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query":"OpenAI","timespan":"2d","max":"40"}'

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