Hong Kong Health News API

Get the live top health headlines from Hong Kong 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 health headlines from Hong Kong. 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=hk&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=health" \
  --data-urlencode "country=hk" \
  --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": "hk", "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: "hk",
    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"  => "hk",
    "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=hk&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": 20144,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "a3b38c724c794a2d1b239ea6ef5559d4",
            "title": "血糖控不好竟會牙周病？國際研究：每3位糖尿病友，就有1位有牙周病",
            "description": "在台灣，糖尿病是國人常見的慢性病之一，其中又以第二型糖尿病為主要類型。許多糖尿病病友都知道，良好的血糖控制是維持健康的重要一環，但您是否曾留意到，糖尿病也可能讓身體更容易受到各種感染的侵襲呢？《優活健康網》特摘此篇分享糖尿病的感染風險。",
            "content": "在台灣，糖尿病是國人常見的慢性病之一，其中又以第二型糖尿病為主要類型。許多糖尿病病友都知道，良好的血糖控制是維持健康的重要一環，但您是否曾留意到，糖尿病也可能讓身體更容易受到各種感染的侵襲呢？《優活健康網》特摘此篇分享糖尿病的感染風險。\n糖尿病有哪些感染風險？\n一項最新的系統性文獻回顧與統合分析研究，針對全球數十篇相關論文進行了深入探討，旨在釐清第二型糖尿病患者面臨的感染風險現況與發生趨勢。\n這項研究的成果，為我們揭示了糖尿病友在面對感染時，哪些種類的感染較為常見，以及哪些感染的發生率較高，這些... [2208 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.uho.com.tw/article-70510.html",
            "image": "https://www.uho.com.tw/userfiles/sm/sm1200_images_A1/2026101651209997.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-02T03:00:00Z",
            "lang": "zh",
            "source": {
                "id": "073bf65759d505626a12848c94588d67",
                "name": "優活健康網",
                "url": "https://www.uho.com.tw"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "21064afb7bbaeeddda3f5c93479e38f6",
            "title": "靈異｜少女昏迷4個月「活在另一個現實」：如鬼壓床但嚴重100萬倍",
            "description": "一名14歲少女因為發燒而從學校被送回家，想不到之後病情惡化昏迷了數月，期間能夠感受到身邊的一切，卻無法動彈，並在期間產生了「另一個現實」，",
            "content": "一名14歲少女因為發燒而從學校被送回家，想不到之後病情惡化昏迷了數月，期間能夠感受到身邊的一切，卻無法動彈，並在期間產生了「另一個現實」，並看到巨樹和光球等靈性體驗。\n根據《Mirror》報導，這名少女Trinity Shores當時是得到了流感，之後還患上肺炎、敗血症、之後還感染上「超級金黃色葡萄球菌」（MRSA）：\n全部狀況都在攻擊我的肺部，我不應該還能活下來。\n這些病症也導致她陷入昏迷，她事後形容當時的處境就像是被「鬼壓床」（被鬼壓），但嚴重程度要乘上100萬倍。\n你可以聽到一切，感受到一... [1145 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.hk01.com/%E7%86%B1%E7%88%86%E8%A9%B1%E9%A1%8C/60316117/%E9%9D%88%E7%95%B0-%E5%B0%91%E5%A5%B3%E6%98%8F%E8%BF%B74%E5%80%8B%E6%9C%88-%E6%B4%BB%E5%9C%A8%E5%8F%A6%E4%B8%80%E5%80%8B%E7%8F%BE%E5%AF%A6-%E5%A6%82%E9%AC%BC%E5%A3%93%E5%BA%8A%E4%BD%86%E5%9A%B4%E9%87%8D100%E8%90%AC%E5%80%8D",
            "image": "https://cdn.hk01.com/di/media/images/dw/20260915/1176588302355009536106245.jpeg/9lJJqhx8E90gY_3uQMTIru1KqHaa2FXshmwVhoZsFYY?v=w1280r16_9",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-31T15:30:44Z",
            "lang": "zh",
            "source": {
                "id": "ba8e9ada85358e891813f90db4cb47b8",
                "name": "香港01",
                "url": "https://www.hk01.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "e31f9cdab547b1929320a00348799278",
            "title": "吃素真的能變年輕？史丹佛研究發現：純素飲食能降低生理年齡，8週就有變化",
            "description": "最新研究顯示，只要遵循純素飲食八週，就可能降低你的生理年齡。專家為你解析純素飲食與長壽之間的關聯。",
            "content": null,
            "url": "https://www.womenshealthmag.com/tw/beauty/skin/a74236565/vegan-diet-may-reduce-biological-age/",
            "image": "https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/1920b6b2-8e79-48a3-8d78-dfb81a9b459d.jpeg?crop=1xw:0.74965xh;center,top&resize=1200:*",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-24T07:00:00Z",
            "lang": "zh",
            "source": {
                "id": "821424c4e5310ff2bae7ebc5077bed3e",
                "name": "Women's Health",
                "url": "https://www.womenshealthmag.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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