Australia Entertainment News API

Get the live top entertainment headlines from Australia with one request to the Top Headlines endpoint of GNews API. Headlines are based on Google News rankings and returned as JSON.

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This request returns the current top entertainment headlines from Australia. The response below is live: it was fetched when this page loaded. Every parameter is described in the Top Headlines endpoint documentation.

GET https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category=entertainment&country=au&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=entertainment" \
  --data-urlencode "country=au" \
  --data-urlencode "apikey=YOUR_API_KEY"

import requests

API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY"

response = requests.get(
    "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines",
    params={"category": "entertainment", "country": "au", "apikey": API_KEY},
    timeout=10,
)
response.raise_for_status()

for article in response.json()["articles"]:
    print(article["title"])

const API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY";

const params = new URLSearchParams({
    category: "entertainment",
    country: "au",
    apikey: API_KEY,
});

const response = await fetch(`https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?${params}`);
if (!response.ok) {
    throw new Error(`Request failed: ${response.status}`);
}

const { articles } = await response.json();
for (const article of articles) {
    console.log(article.title);
}

On the Free plan, browsers can only call the API from localhost: see Using the API in the FAQ.

<?php

$apiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

$params = http_build_query([
    "category" => "entertainment",
    "country"  => "au",
    "apikey"   => $apiKey,
]);

$response = file_get_contents("https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?" . $params);
if ($response === false) {
    throw new RuntimeException("Request failed");
}

$data = json_decode($response, true);
foreach ($data["articles"] as $article) {
    echo $article["title"] . PHP_EOL;
}

using System.Net.Http.Json;

const string ApiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

using var client = new HttpClient();

var url = $"https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category=entertainment&country=au&apikey={ApiKey}";
var data = await client.GetFromJsonAsync<ApiResponse>(url)
           ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("Empty response");

foreach (var article in data.Articles)
{
    Console.WriteLine(article.Title);
}

record ApiResponse(List<Article> Articles);
record Article(string Title);

200 OK · Live JSON response

{
    "totalArticles": 244506,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "0131b62ace505d6714562575eb885eba",
            "title": "Paris Jackson demands $US600 million from Michael Jackson’s estate",
            "description": "Paris Jackson is demanding $US600 million ($860 million) from her late father Michael Jackson’s estate, accusing its longtime executor of keeping the children from receiving their inheritance.",
            "content": "Paris Jackson is demanding $US600 million ($860 million) from her late father Michael Jackson’s estate, accusing its longtime executor of keeping the children from receiving their inheritance.\nIn a bombshell court filing, obtained exclusively by Page... [5241 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/celebrity-kids/paris-jackson-demands-860-million-from-dad-michaels-estate/news-story/0d59d5c6410dc7eec6557a1e232ad94b",
            "image": "https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/b25106e7df97f2cf707bee44cabc8541",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T22:33:17Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "fb80671fb5d2de16a7e1a267ced6d12a",
                "name": "News.com.au",
                "url": "https://www.news.com.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "50da8b66589297f54d839b520cfa7f2c",
            "title": "Diana Ross announces first Australian show in more than 20 years",
            "description": "More than 20 years after her last Australian visit, Diana Ross is returning for a one-off performance celebrating a career that helped shape modern music.",
            "content": "For the first time in more than two decades, music icon Diana Ross will return to Australia.\nThe 82-year-old singer will perform a one-off Sydney show on Mardi Gras weekend, as part of the Sydney Summertime concert series in Centennial Park.\nIt will ... [1794 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-11-04/diana-ross-sydney-2027-groove-armada-centennial-park-mardi-gras/107342834",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/7218894fe9f305a141cb781379cc5ab5?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=2813&cropW=5000&xPos=0&yPos=115&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T22:21:10Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "ABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting Corporation",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "8eaed81717232d921319231646e0dde0",
            "title": "Samantha Armytage reveals secret battle with IVF and infertility",
            "description": "Samantha Armytage has opened up about her “deeply personal” experience with IVF and infertility for the first time.",
            "content": "Samantha Armytage has opened up about her “deeply personal” experience with IVF and infertility for the first time.\nThe TV host, 50, shared that she and her ex-husband “secretly, quietly and privately gave IVF a real heartfelt go” in an episode of he... [1635 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nine.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/samantha-armytage-ivf-journey-act-two-20261104-p61b6j.html",
            "image": "https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_1.579%2C$multiply_1%2C$ratio_1.777778%2C$width_1059%2C$x_146%2C$y_106/t_crop_custom/c_scale%2Cw_1200%2Cq_88%2Cf_auto/9a6a384bbc06cacad34c4a2ac53b8260e9f1fc2705158f411e65fb9bd3cb701c",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T22:11:32Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f24775d826544c821fc5b672e89feda5",
                "name": "Nine.com.au",
                "url": "https://www.nine.com.au"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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