The API takes the 200 most relevant clips that match your search and returns the terms for a "word cloud" of up to the top 200 most frequent words that appeared in those clips (common stop words are automatically removed). This is a powerful way of understanding the topics and words dominating the relevant coverage and suggesting additional contextual search terms to narrow or evolve your search. Note that if there are too few matching clips for your query, the word cloud may be blank.
word_cloud(query, start_date = NULL, end_date = NULL)
query string in GDELT format. See QUERY
in https://blog.gdeltproject.org/gdelt-2-0-television-api-debuts/
for details; use list_networks()
to obtain valid station/network identifiers
start/end dates. Leaving both NULL
searches all archive history.
Leaving just start_date
NULL
sets the start date to July 2009. Leaving just end_date
NULL
sets the end date to today.