Ghana News API

Get the live top headlines from Ghana 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 headlines from Ghana. 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=gh&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=general" \
  --data-urlencode "country=gh" \
  --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": "gh", "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: "gh",
    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" => "general",
    "country"  => "gh",
    "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=general&country=gh&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": 77640,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "83eddfb6721d908745fa8fd43934daea",
            "title": "The night-sky image so incredible the NZ man behind it has been accused of using AI",
            "description": "Brendan Larsen spent hours taking hundreds of photographs of the sky over a mountain in New Zealand",
            "content": "A photograph showing thousands of satellites cross-hatching the night sky over New Zealand appeared so extraordinary the astrophotographer who captured it is fighting accusations it was created by AI.\nTo create his spectacular image – now viewed mill... [3054 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/04/viral-image-nz-night-sky-satellites-accused-of-being-ai-brendan-larsen",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/bd715275e48ac6b5ba2cb5e4a4434d908b8ac664/0_691_2667_2133/master/2667.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=83dd8b1e16320b64a7e5c844a7528ae6",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-04T00:31:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "18c3f7521c9410adc6bb8c1d04f71a10",
            "title": "Tiny fossils show brittle stars gathered around a dead whale 9.5 million years ago",
            "description": "Tiny skeletal plates recovered beside fossil whale bones in southern Denmark offer a rare glimpse of life around a whale carcass approximately 9.5 million years ago. Researchers have identified a new species of brittle star, Ophiura huebnerjenseni, from the Gram Clay Pit and suggest it represents the first fossil record of brittle stars associated with a whale fall.",
            "content": "Tiny skeletal plates recovered beside fossil whale bones in southern Denmark offer a rare glimpse of life around a whale carcass approximately 9.5 million years ago. Researchers have identified a new species of brittle star, Ophiura huebnerjenseni, f... [3957 chars]",
            "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-11-tiny-fossils-brittle-stars-dead.html",
            "image": "https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/hires/2026/tiny-fossils-show-brit.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-04T00:00:06Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "6063be7565dcd637bb5d2946ed6c5329",
                "name": "Phys.org",
                "url": "https://phys.org"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "341cf1e119b5a8f5ba6f284cd6074955",
            "title": "Finding the fingerprints of noisy distributions in random quantum systems",
            "description": "Imagine shuffling a deck of cards where some of the cards are fading just because of the way they interact with the external environment as you shuffle them. Your job is to figure out the interplay between the shuffling, or \"imposed randomness,\" due to the way you shuffle your cards and how that relates to the fading as cards are exposed to the external environment.",
            "content": "Imagine shuffling a deck of cards where some of the cards are fading just because of the way they interact with the external environment as you shuffle them. Your job is to figure out the interplay between the shuffling, or \"imposed randomness,\" due ... [9166 chars]",
            "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-11-fingerprints-noisy-random-quantum.html",
            "image": "https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/hires/2026/finding-the-fingerprin.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T23:40:01Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "6063be7565dcd637bb5d2946ed6c5329",
                "name": "Phys.org",
                "url": "https://phys.org"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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