Hong Kong Science News API

Get the live top science 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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Request and live response

This request returns the current top science 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=science&country=hk&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=science" \
  --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": "science", "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: "science",
    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" => "science",
    "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=science&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": 13952,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "f582caa16958b74895514f644d3d7d15",
            "title": "Hinton發嚴重警告：人工智能已具意識 人類不友善共處就徹底玩完",
            "description": "2024 年諾貝爾物理學獎得主、被公認為「AI 教父」的 78 歲電腦科學家傑佛瑞・辛頓（Geoffrey Hinton），日前接受英國《每日電訊報》（The Telegrap",
            "content": null,
            "url": "https://www.hk01.com/%E6%95%B8%E7%A2%BC%E7%94%9F%E6%B4%BB/60404092/hinton%E7%99%BC%E5%9A%B4%E9%87%8D%E8%AD%A6%E5%91%8A-%E4%BA%BA%E5%B7%A5%E6%99%BA%E8%83%BD%E5%B7%B2%E5%85%B7%E6%84%8F%E8%AD%98-%E4%BA%BA%E9%A1%9E%E4%B8%8D%E5%8F%8B%E5%96%84%E5%85%B1%E8%99%95%E5%B0%B1%E5%BE%B9%E5%BA%95%E7%8E%A9%E5%AE%8C",
            "image": "https://cdn.hk01.com/di/media/images/dw/20261027/1191784098285228032658140.jpeg/4D17sqW1sjoXv1mGq7qfWyyW4P-OdK9veAjjmngI45o",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-27T08:10:40Z",
            "lang": "zh",
            "source": {
                "id": "ba8e9ada85358e891813f90db4cb47b8",
                "name": "香港01",
                "url": "https://www.hk01.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "c58f619f235b159a070d441c8524cf05",
            "title": "星期專論》贏得兩場太空競賽",
            "description": "民主國家必須贏得兩場太空競賽：一場是嚇阻近地軌道的軍事行動，另一場則是在月球及更遠的深空確保「佔位嚇阻」（positional deterrence）優勢。",
            "content": null,
            "url": "https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/politics/paper/1775818",
            "image": "https://img.ltn.com.tw/Upload/news/600/2026/10/25/43.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-24T21:30:00Z",
            "lang": "zh",
            "source": {
                "id": "7d59262a61bd6d48d1dd71f70d1efdc7",
                "name": "自由時報",
                "url": "https://news.ltn.com.tw"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "1a4b22adeb3d53378ff4bc0f8214edc9",
            "title": "魂斷加國火災三年後 中國旅美神經科學家論文終在著名國際學術期刊發表",
            "description": "旅美中國女學者、神經科學家吳岸，於當地時間10月14日在國際著名學術期刊《自然》（Nature）上發表了神經科學論文，當中註明了8位作者，其中吳岸的名字排第二位，而共同第一作者Qiyu Chen，則在",
            "content": null,
            "url": "https://www.bastillepost.com/hongkong/article/17004171-%E9%AD%82%E6%96%B7%E5%8A%A0%E5%9C%8B%E7%81%AB%E7%81%BD%E4%B8%89%E5%B9%B4%E5%BE%8C-%E4%B8%AD%E5%9C%8B%E6%97%85%E7%BE%8E%E7%A5%9E%E7%B6%93%E7%A7%91%E5%AD%B8%E5%AE%B6%E8%AB%96%E6%96%87%E7%B5%82%E5%9C%A8",
            "image": "https://image.bastillepost.com/640x/wp-content/uploads/hongkong/2026/10/E6AF9BE68B8DE6898B_FB-12.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-19T09:03:27Z",
            "lang": "zh",
            "source": {
                "id": "14ab6f8a91e53fac8ba3832be44971f6",
                "name": "巴士的報",
                "url": "https://www.bastillepost.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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