Live global news signals: ranked wire, story timelines, coverage volume/tone/surges. Free, no auth.
Scored across 9 tools
Most tools target clearly distinct resources or signals (country, topic, relation, outbreak, story chain, wire). However, get_briefing, get_trending, and get_wire all surface current notable news signals, so an agent could briefly hesitate between them, though the descriptions do clarify the differences.
All tool names use snake_case and follow a predictable verb_noun pattern: get_* for retrieval tools and search_topics for search. The convention is consistent throughout.
Nine tools is well-scoped for a global news signals server. Each tool covers a distinct analytical surface (briefing, country, topic, relation, outbreak, wire, trending, chain, search) and earns its place.
The surface covers the main monitoring workflows: global briefing, country/topic stats, relations, outbreaks, story chains, wire stories, trending signals, and topic search. Minor gaps exist, such as no direct discovery tool for available countries or monitored relation pairs, but agents can work around this from examples and known ISO codes.
Geotone's daily global risk briefing for a date (YYYY-MM-DD): an analytical summary of coverage surges, tone shifts, and notable movers, with the statistics behind each claim.
Inputs: date (required). Returns: date, meta, page, headline, +1 more
Live media-coverage statistics for one country by ISO-3166 alpha-2 code (e.g. 'ua', 'cn'): daily series (latest 30 days by default; response_format='detailed' for 90) of coverage volume (share of world news coverage that is about that country) and tone, plus armed-conflict fatalities (UCDP, trailing 12 months), displacement stocks (UNHCR: IDPs, refugees, asylum seekers), and coverage origin (what share of coverage about the country is produced by its own outlets vs abroad).
Inputs: iso2 (required), response_format. Returns: iso2, meta, name, page, +6 more
Disease outbreak events indexed from the WHO Disease Outbreak News (facts and links; WHO's assessments live at the linked pages), each with Geotone's measured news attention: articles carrying the disease in GDELT's thematic tagging across all languages, trailing 14 days vs the prior 14. status 'active' means a WHO update within 90 days; outbreaks are never marked ended by feed disappearance. DON covers internationally significant events and is not exhaustive — absence here is not absence of disease.
Inputs: limit, status. Returns: meta, page, outbreaks
Bilateral co-coverage signal for a monitored country pair (e.g. a='cn', b='us'): how much the world's press mentions the two countries together, and in what tone. ~50 strategic pairs are monitored.
Inputs: a (required), b (required), response_format. Returns: meta, pair, snapshots
A story timeline: the threaded developments of one multi-day event chain, oldest first (e.g. attack → casualties confirmed → international reaction). Use the chain_id values returned by get_wire. Each development is a headline + link + outlet count + tone.
Inputs: chain_id (required). Returns: id, meta, page, country, +3 more
Live media-coverage statistics for one geopolitical topic (e.g. 'ukraine-war', 'taiwan-strait', 'sanctions'): daily volume and tone series, z-score, week-over-week change, and a sample of recent articles (headline+link only). Returns the latest 30 days by default; pass response_format='detailed' for the full 90. Use search_topics to find slugs.
Inputs: slug (required), response_format. Returns: meta, name, page, slug, +3 more
What's surging in global news right now: topics whose coverage is ≥2 standard deviations above their trailing average (z-score), the biggest week-over-week movers, and surging countries. Derived every 3 hours from GDELT across 65+ languages.
Inputs: no named parameters. Returns: meta, movers, surging, surgingCountries
The live wire: the world's most significant stories right now, ranked by a published formula (authority-weighted outlet breadth, boosted by consequence themes, coded events, and casualty figures, decayed by recency over 72h). Each story carries one representative link, outlet count, tone, countries, non-English source languages that also reported the event, and a chain_id when it belongs to a multi-day story timeline (fetch with get_story_chain). Reclustered every 3 hours.
Inputs: limit. Returns: meta, page, stories
Search Geotone's tracked geopolitical topics by keyword (matches name, slug, and description). Returns slugs usable with get_topic, plus each topic's current coverage stats.
Inputs: query (required). Returns: meta, query, results
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