Australia Health News API

Get the live top health 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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Request and live response

This request returns the current top health 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=health&country=au&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=health" \
  --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": "health", "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: "health",
    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" => "health",
    "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=health&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": 206716,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "34f259b88686ded0de9a84802e8b1633",
            "title": "How to Maintain Muscle Mass as You Age With Diet and Exercise",
            "description": "Adequate protein intake and resistance exercise support muscle strength and function during aging, when muscles often respond less strongly to dietary protein. Evidence for supplements varies, with creatine showing benefits alongside resistance",
            "content": "Introduction\nWhy muscle is more than movement\nMuscle across the lifespan\nProtein: necessary, but not the whole story\nExercise and nutrition: a partnership\nBeyond protein: nutrients that support muscle function\nMuscle, metabolism, and chronic disease\n... [12100 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.news-medical.net/health/How-to-Maintain-Muscle-Mass-as-You-Age-With-Diet-and-Exercise.aspx",
            "image": "https://www.news-medical.net/images/Article_Images/ImageForArticle_27997_17903909238092073.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-04T02:38:46Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f2ca7a45d20357cb42858868cb4a4946",
                "name": "News-Medical",
                "url": "https://www.news-medical.net"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "74b03f5c7c05a8de565c4fc2389c815c",
            "title": "Australia’s native bees have an unusual power that can fight antibiotic resistance",
            "description": "Wet food usually spoils, yet much of stingless bee honey stays remarkably free from harmful microbes.",
            "content": "A grazed knee. A cut while gardening. A routine hip replacement. For most of the past century, these were minor worries. But in a world where antibiotics stop working, any of them could turn deadly.\nDrug-resistant infections are on the rise, and deve... [4672 chars]",
            "url": "https://theconversation.com/australias-native-bees-have-an-unusual-power-that-can-fight-antibiotic-resistance-295463",
            "image": "https://images.theconversation.com/files/769892/original/file-20261103-64-9k5n8b.jpeg?ixlib=rb-4.1.1&rect=0%2C484%2C4032%2C2016&q=45&auto=format&w=1356&h=668&fit=crop",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-04T00:21:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "344b3e5c4a3152c0cbebe5418ae064b7",
                "name": "The Conversation",
                "url": "https://theconversation.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "cff28f036fe0ae6cb1f2866d38058133",
            "title": "England Emergency Care Hospital Admissions Vary Widely",
            "description": "Neither local case mix, primary care provision, nor geography explain the large differences in hospital admission rates, ranging from less than 10% to",
            "content": "Neither local case mix, primary care provision, nor geography explain the large differences in hospital admission rates, ranging from less than 10% to more than 40%, from emergency departments across England, finds research published online in Emerge... [4131 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.miragenews.com/england-emergency-care-hospital-admissions-vary-1771475/",
            "image": "https://cdn1.miragenews.com/tmp_cache?cdn=images.unsplash.com%2Fphoto-1588600878108-578307a3cc9d%3Fixid%3DMnwxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8%26amp%3Bixlib%3Drb-1.2.1%26amp%3Bauto%3Dformat%26amp%3Bfit%3Dcrop%26amp%3Bw%3D755%26amp%3Bq%3D80",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T23:35:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0368281c39ba31f7435685e8b620f675",
                "name": "Mirage News",
                "url": "https://www.miragenews.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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