search_situations
Search news situations
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Search the news by topic to find matching situations and events. A situation is an ongoing storyline (story arc) that groups related events over time; an event, called a cluster, is one happening assembled from many outlets and deduplicated into a single item, so you get one event rather than 20 near-duplicate headlines. Results come back grouped under their situations, each with a one-line summary, a significance score (1 to 10, where 8 and above is exceptional), a source count (how many outlets are covering it), and a canonical clstr.news link. Use this to answer 'what is happening around X' for a topic, company, country, or event. Then open a result with get_situation_timeline for the full history, or get_cluster for one event's detail. Results are relevance ordered and bounded to the top matches: when there are more, the result ends with a cursor to pass back, and each page counts as one search against your cap. Pass summary: "full" to read each match's summary untruncated instead of one line. Cite the returned URLs. (Requires sign-in, or a free API key: https://clstr.news/developers)
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| query | string | yes | Topic, entity, company, country, or event to search for. |
| days | integer | no | How far back to search, in days. Default 7, maximum 30. |
| limit | integer | no | Max events to return. Default 15. They are grouped under their situations in the result, so you may see fewer situation headings than this number. |
| summary | string | no | How much summary text each row carries. 'preview' (the default) is a one-line preview; 'full' returns the maintained summary in full, so you do not need a follow-up call per result. On get_top_situations, 'full' is not enabled for every account: read `summary_mode` in the result to see which mode was actually served, and get_situation_timeline always returns one situation's summary in full. |
| cursor | string | no | From a previous result, to page further. Each page counts as one search against your cap. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"query": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Topic, entity, company, country, or event to search for.",
"maxLength": 200
},
"days": {
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 30,
"description": "How far back to search, in days. Default 7, maximum 30."
},
"limit": {
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 25,
"description": "Max events to return. Default 15. They are grouped under their situations in the result, so you may see fewer situation headings than this number."
},
"summary": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"preview",
"full"
],
"description": "How much summary text each row carries. 'preview' (the default) is a one-line preview; 'full' returns the maintained summary in full, so you do not need a follow-up call per result. On get_top_situations, 'full' is not enabled for every account: read `summary_mode` in the result to see which mode was actually served, and get_situation_timeline always returns one situation's summary in full."
},
"cursor": {
"type": "string",
"description": "From a previous result, to page further. Each page counts as one search against your cap."
}
},
"required": [
"query"
]
}