GDELT 1.0 Queries

import gdelt

Version 1 queries

gd1 = gdelt.gdelt(version=1)

pull single day, gkg table

results= gd1.Search('2016 Nov 01',table='gkg') print(len(results))

pull events table, range, output to json format

results = gd1.Search(['2016 Oct 31','2016 Nov 2'],coverage=True,table='events') print(len(results))

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~/ub16_prj % python demogdelt.py

187291 187291 Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/3.8.5/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/multiprocessing/spawn.py", line 116, in spawn_main exitcode = _main(fd, parent_sentinel) File "/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/3.8.5/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/multiprocessing/spawn.py", line 125, in _main prepare(preparation_data) File "/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/3.8.5/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/multiprocessing/spawn.py", line 236, in prepare _fixup_main_from_path(data['init_main_from_path']) File "/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/3.8.5/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/multiprocessing/spawn.py", line 287, in _fixup_main_from_path main_content = runpy.run_path(main_path, File "/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/3.8.5/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/runpy.py", line 265, in run_path return _run_module_code(code, init_globals, run_name, File "/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/3.8.5/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/runpy.py", line 97, in _run_module_code _run_code(code, mod_globals, init_globals, File "/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/3.8.5/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code exec(code, run_globals) File "/Users//ub16_prj/demogdelt.py", line 13, in results = gd1.Search(['2016 Oct 31','2016 Nov 2'],coverage=True,table='events') File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/gdelt/base.py", line 629, in Search pool = Pool(processes=cpu_count()) File "/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/3.8.5/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/multiprocessing/context.py", line 119, in Pool return Pool(processes, initializer, initargs, maxtasksperchild, File "/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/3.8.5/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/multiprocessing/pool.py", line 212, in init self._repopulate_pool() File "/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/3.8.5/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/multiprocessing/pool.py", line 303, in _repopulate_pool return self._repopulate_pool_static(self._ctx, self.Process, File "/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/3.8.5/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/multiprocessing/pool.py", line 326, in _repopulate_pool_static w.start() File "/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/3.8.5/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/multiprocessing/process.py", line 121, in start self._popen = self._Popen(self) File "/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/3.8.5/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/multiprocessing/context.py", line 284, in _Popen return Popen(process_obj) File "/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/3.8.5/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/multiprocessing/popen_spawn_posix.py", line 32, in init super().init(process_obj) File "/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/3.8.5/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/multiprocessing/popen_fork.py", line 19, in init self._launch(process_obj) File "/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/3.8.5/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/multiprocessing/popen_spawn_posix.py", line 42, in _launch prep_data = spawn.get_preparation_data(process_obj._name) File "/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/3.8.5/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/multiprocessing/spawn.py", line 154, in get_preparation_data _check_not_importing_main() File "/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/3.8.5/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/multiprocessing/spawn.py", line 134, in _check_not_importing_main raise RuntimeError(''' RuntimeError: An attempt has been made to start a new process before the current process has finished its bootstrapping phase.

    This probably means that you are not using fork to start your
    child processes and you have forgotten to use the proper idiom
    in the main module:

        if __name__ == '__main__':
            freeze_support()
            ...

    The "freeze_support()" line can be omitted if the program
    is not going to be frozen to produce an executable.

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I tested this just now and got it to work. Here is a Google Colab notebook that shows the code is working.