> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.gdeltcloud.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Read publication activity > Paginated observed evidence of successful serving/reference publication. Unchanged reloads and baseline inventories are excluded. Linked entities are mentions or participants according to the record; they are not newly created identities. Source dates retain their stated precision. Source capability and collection start are explicit; missing history is not zero. Reads are ordered by the selected time_basis, newest first. Only committed batches are visible; cursors pin committed source sequences across pages. recorded_at retains journal availability time independently from published_at and source_date. Exhausting next_cursor completes the observed journal at its publication cutoff, not all upstream source intake. Query Monitors may watch observed publication entries while retaining source/history qualifications; partial history cannot establish exhaustive all-source counts or quiet days. Failed, unavailable or capped journal reads cannot complete a Monitor checkpoint. ## OpenAPI ````yaml /api-reference/openapi-v2.json get /api/v2/activity openapi: 3.0.3 info: title: GDELT Cloud API v2 version: 2.0.0 description: >- Clean v2 REST API for generated GDELT Cloud structured Events, clustered Stories, linked Entities, summaries, admin1 discovery, significance ranking, and paginated article evidence. Event significance is a family-scoped weighted blend, renormalized so every event family spans a true 0-1: each event's raw total is divided by the maximum its own family can reach (Conflict 1.00, CAMEO+ POLITICAL 0.90, other CAMEO+ domains 0.65). All events: Goldstein severity 0.25, article evidence 0.05, confidence 0.05. Conflict only: fatalities 0.55 (log-scaled by body count) and civilian targeting 0.10. CAMEO+ only: magnitude 0.20, systemic importance 0.15, propagation potential 0.10, market sensitivity 0.10. When magnitude is unmeasured its term AND its 0.20 weight are both dropped. The four CAMEO+ metrics are rubric scores produced by published formulas - ordinal ranking signals, not measurements, probabilities, or predicted price moves. goldstein_scale is one canonical public metric, populated for Conflict Events and CAMEO+ POLITICAL Events where meaningful. Story linked_event_count is a Story-to-Event link aggregate, not a distinct Event total. servers: - url: https://gdeltcloud.com description: Production - url: http://localhost:3000 description: Local development security: - ApiKeyAuth: [] tags: - name: Events description: Coded CAMEO+ / conflict events — search, fetch, and summarize. - name: Stories description: Clustered narratives (stories) and their articles. - name: Situations description: >- One real-world occurrence as the Stories and coded Events that belong to it — stored, adjudicated membership (`meta.situation_source: curated`) or a walked neighbourhood around a Story. Discovery, detail, four independently paged member lists, and the only write on the core surface (5 QU with an Idempotency-Key). - name: Entities description: >- People & organizations — resolve a name to an entity, then fetch its profile and tone. Also the publication activity journal (/api/v2/activity): observed evidence of what was published about identities and records — committed batches only, cursor-paged, never source intake. - name: Unified Search description: >- One fuzzy lookup across every id-space — start here with a name, take the entity id, then reuse it on every other surface. This is the resolver the rest of the API assumes you called first. - name: Media Intelligence description: >- Press-coverage tone over time and share of voice against a peer set. Requires the `can_use_tone` / `can_use_share_of_voice` entitlement; social signal is an admin-only preview. - name: Facilities description: >- Unified physical-asset directory — GEM energy assets, World Port Index ports and Epoch AI data centers on one keyed surface, resolved to spine owners. Requires the `can_use_facilities` entitlement. - name: Monitors description: >- Organization-shared scheduled checks over the Core API, with email and signed-webhook delivery. Monitor execution does not consume query units. - name: Geography description: >- Country context and admin-1 geography: /api/v2/countries (publication activity, reporting counts, dated economic and resource fundamentals, facility and office inventories, directory mode over every registered country) and admin-1 lookups. - name: Government description: >- US federal awards (USAspending) and foreign-influence registrations (DOJ NSD FARA), resolved onto the entity spine. Requires the `can_use_gov` entitlement. - name: Political Offices description: >- Public political offices and who holds them — legislatures, cabinets, heads of state, courts and IGO posts, with the office start/end dates the publisher states (valid time), resolved onto the entity spine. Actor context for geopolitical analysis; NOT a PEP or sanctions-screening tool. Requires the `can_use_offices` entitlement. - name: Filings description: >- SEC EDGAR filings, XBRL financials, and relations extracted from filing text. Requires the `can_use_filings` entitlement. - name: Reference Data description: >- The GLEIF Global LEI Index — legal-entity reference data, consolidation relationships, and LEI↔ISIN mappings. Requires the `can_use_gleif` entitlement. - name: Energy description: Global Energy Monitor assets + ownership registry. - name: AI Compute description: >- Epoch AI datasets — models, hardware, data centers, companies and chip sales. Requires the `can_use_epoch_ai` entitlement. - name: Macro Finance description: >- FRED economic time series — catalog, point-in-time observations and releases. Requires the `can_use_macro` entitlement. - name: Screening and Reference description: >- Restricted-party lists, name screening and ownership-chain exposure. Requires the `can_use_screening` / `can_use_exposure` entitlement. Analytical coverage, not an audit-grade compliance control. - name: China description: >- China overseas development finance (AidData GCDF). Requires the `can_use_china` entitlement. - name: Maritime description: >- AIS-derived vessel flow — chokepoint transits, last-known vessel positions, carriers, dwell and AIS-dark gaps. Terrestrial AIS only, so coverage thins in open ocean. Requires the `can_use_maritime` entitlement. - name: Atlas Intelligence description: >- Geopolitical-risk and posture indices computed from GDELT Cloud’s own coded events, normalized to each place’s own frozen baseline. - name: Briefs description: Source-backed monitoring briefs. - name: Meta description: >- Machine-readable discovery: the value vocabularies, the endpoint contracts, and the query-unit cost model. Unmetered, so a client can check before it spends. paths: /api/v2/activity: get: tags: - Entities summary: Read publication activity description: >- Paginated observed evidence of successful serving/reference publication. Unchanged reloads and baseline inventories are excluded. Linked entities are mentions or participants according to the record; they are not newly created identities. Source dates retain their stated precision. Source capability and collection start are explicit; missing history is not zero. Reads are ordered by the selected time_basis, newest first. Only committed batches are visible; cursors pin committed source sequences across pages. recorded_at retains journal availability time independently from published_at and source_date. Exhausting next_cursor completes the observed journal at its publication cutoff, not all upstream source intake. Query Monitors may watch observed publication entries while retaining source/history qualifications; partial history cannot establish exhaustive all-source counts or quiet days. Failed, unavailable or capped journal reads cannot complete a Monitor checkpoint. operationId: list-activity-v2 parameters: - name: time_basis in: query required: false schema: type: string enum: - published - recorded default: published description: >- Clock for date/hour filters and ordering: published preserves the serving/reference publication time; recorded uses the durable journal commit time and includes late publications when they become available. Omission retains published compatibility. Choose recorded explicitly for ongoing activity Monitors; source dates remain unchanged. Full value list: https://docs.gdeltcloud.com/reference/enums#activity-time-basis example: recorded - name: date_start in: query required: false schema: type: string format: date description: >- First UTC date in the selected time_basis. Defaults to today; future dates are rejected. Neither clock is Event occurrence time. Note: validation is owned by the endpoint service because it depends on composed or cross-parameter state; the published error semantics above still apply. example: '2026-09-06' - name: date_end in: query required: false schema: type: string format: date description: >- Last UTC date in the selected time_basis, inclusive. Defaults to date_start and cannot be later than the current UTC day. Note: validation is owned by the endpoint service because it depends on composed or cross-parameter state; the published error semantics above still apply. example: '2026-09-06' - name: hour in: query required: false schema: type: integer minimum: 0 maximum: 23 description: >- Optional UTC hour, 0–23. Requires a single date and rejects hours that have not started. The current hour is allowed and describes publications so far; omit for the whole selected day. example: '14' - name: country in: query required: false schema: type: string description: >- Known country attribution. Evidence distinguishes location, actor origin, reporting and source association. Note: validation is owned by the endpoint service because it depends on composed or cross-parameter state; the published error semantics above still apply. Full value list: https://docs.gdeltcloud.com/reference/enums#country example: TWN - name: kind in: query required: false schema: type: string enum: - event - story - entity - facility - list_entry - office_holder description: >- Published record type to include in activity evidence. Full value list: https://docs.gdeltcloud.com/reference/enums#activity-kind example: event - name: change in: query required: false schema: type: string enum: - added - updated - removed description: >- Publication transition. Defaults to all substantive transitions. Full value list: https://docs.gdeltcloud.com/reference/enums#activity-change example: added - name: entity in: query required: false schema: type: string description: >- Selected entity ID from /api/v2/search; returns records linked to that identity. Note: validation is owned by the endpoint service because it depends on composed or cross-parameter state; the published error semantics above still apply. example: e_ba0a64d8155fd63b - name: limit in: query required: false schema: type: integer minimum: 1 maximum: 100 default: 25 description: >- Number of publication records per page, from 1 to 100. Note: validation is owned by the endpoint service because it depends on composed or cross-parameter state; the published error semantics above still apply. example: '25' - name: cursor in: query required: false schema: type: string description: >- Opaque next_cursor from the previous response. Keep the other filters unchanged. Note: validation is owned by the endpoint service because it depends on composed or cross-parameter state; the published error semantics above still apply. example: '' - name: recorded_start in: query required: false schema: type: string description: >- Inclusive start of journal availability time, as an ISO UTC timestamp. Supply both bounds. Includes late arrivals without changing their original reporting dates. Cannot combine with reporting-date filters. Note: validation is owned by the endpoint service because it depends on composed or cross-parameter state; the published error semantics above still apply. example: '2026-09-06T00:00:00Z' x-advanced: true - name: recorded_end in: query required: false schema: type: string description: >- Exclusive end of journal availability time, as an ISO UTC timestamp. Supply both bounds. Includes late arrivals without changing their original reporting dates. Cannot combine with reporting-date filters. Note: validation is owned by the endpoint service because it depends on composed or cross-parameter state; the published error semantics above still apply. example: '2026-09-07T00:00:00Z' x-advanced: true responses: '200': description: Success content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: success: type: boolean data: type: array items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/PublicationActivityCard' examples: default: summary: Today’s Taiwan publications value: success: true data: [] '400': description: Invalid or unsupported parameter (see `code` and `details`) '401': description: Missing or invalid API key '403': description: Plan does not include this surface '404': description: Not found '429': description: Quota or rate limit exceeded '500': description: Server error security: - ApiKeyAuth: [] components: schemas: PublicationActivityCard: type: object properties: change_id: type: string source: type: string source_dataset: type: string record_id: type: string kind: type: string enum: - event - story - entity - facility - list_entry - office_holder change: type: string enum: - added - updated - removed title: type: string published_at: type: string recorded_at: type: string source_date: type: string nullable: true source_date_precision: type: string enum: - day - instant - unknown entity_ids: type: array items: type: string country_iso3s: type: array items: type: string country_evidence: type: array items: type: object properties: iso3: type: string basis: type: string required: - iso3 - basis evidence_url: type: string required: - change_id - source - source_dataset - record_id - kind - change - title - published_at - recorded_at - source_date - source_date_precision - entity_ids - country_iso3s - country_evidence - evidence_url securitySchemes: ApiKeyAuth: type: http scheme: bearer bearerFormat: gdelt_sk_... description: 'GDELT Cloud API key. Send as `Authorization: Bearer gdelt_sk_...`.' ````