Latvia News API

Get the live top headlines from Latvia 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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Request and live response

This request returns the current top headlines from Latvia. 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=lv&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=general" \
  --data-urlencode "country=lv" \
  --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": "lv", "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: "lv",
    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"  => "lv",
    "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=lv&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": 127158,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "08db1e327f4beba573ff51b0bd59b7a8",
            "title": "Porziņģis skaidro veselības jautājumu un apklusina teorijas par saslimšanu ar AIDS",
            "description": "Sports | Basketbols | NBA. Par un ap Kristapa Porziņģa sniegumu basketbolā - ziņas, komentāri, pirmsspēļu apskati, video.",
            "content": "Goldensteitas \"Warriors\" šajā starpsezonā ar Porziņģi noslēdza divu gadu līgumu, bet latviešu basketbolistu uz treniņnometnes sākumu tā arī nesagaidīja, jo viņš komandai nevarēja pievienoties nenoteiktas slimības dēļ.\nKomandas galvenajam trenerim Stī... [944 chars]",
            "url": "https://sportacentrs.com/basketbols/nba/kristaps_porzingis/15102026-porzingis_versas_pie_faniem_un_apklusina_",
            "image": "https://i5.tiesraides.lv/1200x0s/pictures/2026-04-16/1003_kristaps_porzingis_warriors.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T21:01:00Z",
            "lang": "lv",
            "source": {
                "id": "e92c2ca0b9083d7bf2af340c3bd685d4",
                "name": "Sportacentrs.com",
                "url": "https://sportacentrs.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "bde85618d873f935bd6654dc785b7e5b",
            "title": "Engineered enzyme could improve detection of HIV and other viruses",
            "description": "Scientists have long used a powerful gene-editing tool called CRISPR to make precise changes to DNA. But a different version of the technology, known as Cas13a, targets RNA, the genetic material found in viruses such as HIV. Now, researchers at Rice University have developed an improved version of Cas13a that could make it easier to detect HIV and other RNA viruses in blood and environmental samples. The study was published in Cell Chemical Biology.",
            "content": "Scientists have long used a powerful gene-editing tool called CRISPR to make precise changes to DNA. But a different version of the technology, known as Cas13a, targets RNA, the genetic material found in viruses such as HIV. Now, researchers at Rice ... [3628 chars]",
            "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-enzyme-hiv-viruses.html",
            "image": "https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/hires/2026/rice-scientists-engine-1.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T21:00:11Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "6063be7565dcd637bb5d2946ed6c5329",
                "name": "Phys.org",
                "url": "https://phys.org"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "2231bdf4a9bac23f919347443319a0ac",
            "title": "Zīmē Gatis Šļūka",
            "description": "Līdz gada beigām Valsts kancelejai, ministrijām un citām centrālām valsts iestādēm uzdots ierobežot jaunu līgumu slēgšanu un atlikt izdevumus, kas nav kritiski nepieciešami valsts pamatfunkciju nodrošināšanai.",
            "content": "Līdz gada beigām Valsts kancelejai, ministrijām un citām centrālām valsts iestādēm uzdots ierobežot jaunu līgumu slēgšanu un atlikt izdevumus, kas nav kritiski nepieciešami valsts pamatfunkciju nodrošināšanai.\nReklāma\nTā otrdien nolēma valdība pēc Fi... [3519 chars]",
            "url": "https://lasi.lv/par-svarigo/karikatura/zime-gatis-sluka-atlikumu-vares-paturet.49473",
            "image": "https://media.lasi.lv/media/cache/lasi_article__text__image__full__jpeg/uploads/media/image/202610142106596acfc4c34ab03.jpg.jpeg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T21:00:00Z",
            "lang": "lv",
            "source": {
                "id": "b8a6df1af4ed3e206f7256b056b4fa19",
                "name": "Lasi.lv",
                "url": "https://lasi.lv"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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