---
title: "Sentence-level news search"
method: GET
path: "/api/v1/gdelt/context"
tags: ["Global News and Media"]
---

# Sentence-level news search

`GET /api/v1/gdelt/context`

Search within individual sentences. Returns actual text with surrounding context. 72-hour window only.

## Query parameters

- `q` string, required — Search query (all terms must be in same sentence).
- `max_records` integer — Maximum records to return.
- `quotes_only` boolean — Only return quoted sentences.

## Response `200`

Sentence-level matches with surrounding context.

- EnvelopeGdeltContextData
  - `data` GdeltContextData, required
    - `articles` Article[], required
      - `url` string, required — Related URL.
      - `title` string, required — Display title.
      - `seendate` string, required
      - `socialimage` string, required
      - `domain` string, required — Domain name or dataset domain code.
      - `language` string, required — Language code (ISO 639-1).
      - `isquote` integer, required
      - `sentence` string, required
      - `context` string, required — Content payload.
    - `count` integer, required — Number of items in this result set.
  - `meta` SugraMeta, required — Metadata attached to every /api/v1/* response envelope.
    - `endpoint` string, required — Requested endpoint path.
    - `data_time` string, required — ISO 8601 UTC timestamp of the source data, not of the request.
    - `response_time` string, required — ISO 8601 UTC timestamp when this response was produced.
    - `provider` string, required — API name and version.
    - `source` string, nullable — Identifier of the primary upstream source used for this response.
    - `attribution` string, nullable — Human-readable attribution mandated by an upstream source (e.g. a securities regulator or self-regulatory organization). Present only on responses whose source requires the owner and source to be clearly identified. Do not remove or alter it when using the response.
    - `fallback_used` boolean, nullable — True when the primary source failed and a fallback produced the data.
    - `fallback_chain` string[], nullable — Ordered list of sources attempted, in the order they were tried.
    - `cached` boolean, nullable — True when this response was served from the internal cache.
    - `stale` boolean, nullable — True when the cached response was returned after the upstream rate-limited or errored. Clients can use this to detect degraded data.

## Other responses

- `401` — Missing or invalid `x-api-key` header.
- `422` — Validation Error
- `429` — Daily rate limit exceeded. Check `X-RateLimit-Reset` for the next window.
- `503` — Upstream source is temporarily unavailable. Retry after a short delay.

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