get_situation_timeline
Get a situation timeline
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Get the full chronological timeline of one situation. A situation is an ongoing storyline (story arc) that groups related news events over time; it carries a maintained summary plus every event in order, so you see not just what happened but how it developed. Each event is a cluster (one happening assembled from many outlets and deduplicated) with its date, a significance score (1 to 10, where 8 and above is exceptional), a source count, and a canonical clstr.news link. Use this to brief on a story's history or answer 'how did this develop'. Get a situation id from search_situations or get_top_situations, or from a clstr.news URL. An id that was retired when two situations merged resolves to the successor, flagged with merged_into_shown. Cite the returned URLs.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| situation_id | string | yes | Situation id or slug (from other tools or clstr.news URLs). |
| timeline_limit | integer | no | Timeline entries to return, newest first. Default 50, and 50 is also the maximum without an API key. A free key raises it to 500: https://clstr.news/developers |
| timeline_before | string | no | Cursor: cluster id (a UUID) from a previous page, to continue past it. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"situation_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Situation id or slug (from other tools or clstr.news URLs)."
},
"timeline_limit": {
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 50,
"description": "Timeline entries to return, newest first. Default 50, and 50 is also the maximum without an API key. A free key raises it to 500: https://clstr.news/developers"
},
"timeline_before": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Cursor: cluster id (a UUID) from a previous page, to continue past it."
}
},
"required": [
"situation_id"
]
}