Fetch GDELT Public News (Encoded String)

Manual workflow that fetches public news from GDELT and returns toon-encoded articles.

manual http news gdelt toon-encode encoded-output

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What's Included

Field	Value
Name	Fetch GDELT Public News (Encoded String)
Type	Workflow
Trigger	manual
Steps	1
Inputs	2

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  "description": "Manual workflow that fetches public news from GDELT and returns toon-encoded articles.",
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    "name": "Fetch GDELT Public News (Encoded String)",
    "enabled": true,
    "log_level": "info",
    "trigger": {
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    },
    "workflowInput": [
      {
        "name": "query",
        "description": "Search terms for GDELT public news (e.g., climate change, elections, ai policy)",
        "schema": {
          "type": "string",
          "required": true
        }
      },
      {
        "name": "max_records",
        "description": "Optional max number of news articles (default: 50)",
        "schema": {
          "type": "string",
          "required": false
        }
      }
    ],
    "steps": [
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        "condition": {
          "expr": "true",
          "onFailure": "throw",
          "resultType": "any"
        },
        "action": {
          "actionType": "actions/network/http/request/send",
          "actions/network/http/request/send": {
            "method": "GET",
            "url": {
              "expr": "url_params(\"https://api.gdeltproject.org/api/v2/doc/doc\", {\"query\": query, \"mode\": \"ArtList\", \"maxrecords\": coalesce(max_records, \"50\"), \"format\": \"json\"})",
              "onFailure": "throw",
              "resultType": "any"
            },
            "headers": [],
            "returnBuffer": false,
            "cache": true
          }
        }
      }
    ],
    "returnExpression": {
      "expr": "toon_encode(step_data(0, \"articles\", []))",
      "onFailure": "throw",
      "resultType": "any",
      "strict": false,
      "useSimpleCel": false
    },
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}

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