Botswana News API

Get the live top headlines from Botswana with one request to the Top Headlines endpoint of GNews API. Stories are selected by Google News rankings and returned as clean JSON.

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This request returns the current top headlines from Botswana. 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=general&country=bw&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=general" \
  --data-urlencode "country=bw" \
  --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": "general", "country": "bw", "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: "general",
    country: "bw",
    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);
}

<?php

$apiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

$query = http_build_query([
    "category" => "general",
    "country"  => "bw",
    "apikey"   => $apiKey,
]);

$response = file_get_contents("https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?" . $query);
if ($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=general&country=bw&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": 63244,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "cdd0aba484465074cde935b1841a1b98",
            "title": "NBA Fantasy: Preseason standouts with High Score upside",
            "description": "Five players have stood out in NBA preseason thus far, and could make a major impact in your High Score lineup heading into fantasy basketball season.",
            "content": "Play Yahoo Fantasy High Score Today!\nThe NBA preseason has provided some breakout players making a final push to land a roster spot or prominent place in a team’s rotation. As fans gear up for fantasy basketball season, some of these names could end ... [2872 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nba.com/news/nba-fantasy-preseason-standouts-with-high-score-upside",
            "image": "https://cdn.nba.com/manage/2026/10/GettyImages-2299388392-scaled-e1792003853525.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T23:20:52Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "51615c5a3110b6568c3cd6f1dae8903b",
                "name": "NBA.com",
                "url": "https://www.nba.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "c65b0b0d8ae6916ccf82b5ffb5df823f",
            "title": "New Species of Predatory Dinosaur Identified in UK",
            "description": "A fossilized braincase that sat in in the collection of the Natural History Museum in London for a century has been identified as Europe’s first megaraptoran dinosaur, a lineage once thought to have flourished mainly in the southern hemisphere.",
            "content": "A fossilized braincase that sat in in the collection of the Natural History Museum in London for a century has been identified as Europe’s first megaraptoran dinosaur, a lineage once thought to have flourished mainly in the southern hemisphere.\nNamed... [2909 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.sci.news/paleontology/invictibellatrix-amberina-15131.html",
            "image": "https://cdn.sci.news/images/2026/10/image_15131f-Invictibellatrix-amberina.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T23:16:33Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "c74358087a9ef7a865a623801c9a631c",
                "name": "Sci.News",
                "url": "https://www.sci.news"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "9b0a569b87373b9b9dae4e199f19deaf",
            "title": "Anthropic's Q3 revenue surges 45% to nearly $17 billion",
            "description": "Targeting a valuation of over $2 trillion, Anthropic is seeking to convince investors that its breakneck revenue growth can eventually outrun the enormous costs of building and running AI ‌systems.",
            "content": "NEW YORK, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Anthropic's third-quarter ‌revenue rose 45% to $16.8 billion from the previous quarter, according to an investor who attended a pre-IPO meeting with Anthropic leadership in San Francisco on Wednesday.\nRevenue in the first... [2602 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/anthropics-q3-revenue-surges-45-nearly-17-billion-2026-10-14/",
            "image": "https://www.reuters.com/resizer/v2/K7EKFMTSMZIQNANIBK2WMEAULQ.jpg?auth=b824f6bfce8bcda0576b47022b63bb522e9e28a5657228fefa3e315d25db8a47&height=1005&width=1920&quality=80&smart=true",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T22:48:23Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "880922db02816158732477822da6d07f",
                "name": "Reuters",
                "url": "https://www.reuters.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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