New Zealand Entertainment News API

Get the live top entertainment headlines from New Zealand 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 entertainment headlines from New Zealand. 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=entertainment&country=nz&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=entertainment" \
  --data-urlencode "country=nz" \
  --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": "entertainment", "country": "nz", "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: "entertainment",
    country: "nz",
    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" => "entertainment",
    "country"  => "nz",
    "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=entertainment&country=nz&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": 15114,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "8edf6994a034ea865bab814d2b0a17ad",
            "title": "Kelly Clarkson and toy store clash on social media over mechanical bird",
            "description": "Clarkson claimed she “was looked at as if I couldn’t afford\" the bird and went on to say the store had “just lost a huge sale”, prompting angry fans to barrage the store.",
            "content": "It was something most people have likely done at one time or another: complain to others about feeling judged or dismissed during an interaction, maybe even take to social media to post about it.\nBut just because we might all have the same impulse, w... [4903 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.1news.co.nz/2026/10/15/kelly-clarkson-and-toy-store-clash-on-social-media-over-mechanical-bird/",
            "image": "https://tvnz-1-news-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/kelly-clarkson-2WFICH6Z7VDM7F2GRR5YZI46GA.jpg?auth=38c13cfba60b7ebf614d30b9af4948515ea5fe6d3be9195080459450738925d5&quality=70&width=600&height=315&focal=1285%2C402",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-15T00:15:27Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "9b3921fcecffb9abd8da549eacb0a84a",
                "name": "1News",
                "url": "https://www.1news.co.nz"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "99e223e9c52618595270413bac038d0c",
            "title": "Justin Bieber at Tara Iti? The celebrity golf sighting we missed while hunting for houses",
            "description": "The scoop that got away at NZ’s most star-studded enclave., All things property, under OneRoof",
            "content": "Advice for editors: do not send a property reporter to cover New Zealand’s international celebrity mecca.\nYesterday, while the OneRoof team was at Te Arai Links visiting the course and clubrooms and scouting the discreet winding streets lined with ne... [2690 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.oneroof.co.nz/news/justin-bieber-at-tara-iti-the-celebrity-golf-sighting-we-missed-while-hunting-for-houses-50366",
            "image": "https://s.oneroof.co.nz/image/f7/32/f7325c6d68021a7de7de4d86e553caa0.jpg?x-oss-process=image/quality,q_80",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T22:15:35Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "79f3f603fdd6def86c72f659b1c729b0",
                "name": "OneRoof",
                "url": "https://www.oneroof.co.nz"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "076d1f0662cf2be772ae6f5a29c5c74d",
            "title": "Wildlife Photographer 2026 winners capture powerful images of the natural world",
            "description": "The overall winner this year is Federico Veronesi of Italy for his powerful image of an elephant carrying a dead calf. The annual competition is run by the Natural History Museum.",
            "content": "The overall winner this year is Federico Veronesi of Italy for his powerful image of an elephant carrying a dead calf. The annual competition is run by the Natural History Museum.\nRNZ Online\n15 October 2026\nOverall winner 2026: The Aftermath by Feder... [4427 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/culture/wildlife-photographer-2026-winners-capture-powerful-images-of-the-natural-world",
            "image": "https://media.rnztools.nz/rnz/image/upload/s--XT96dYTb--/t_tohu-badge-facebook/f_auto/q_auto/4K0NZUV__Tony_Wu_jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T21:59:42Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "79971a6b38016604095f88394b17172a",
                "name": "RNZ",
                "url": "https://www.rnz.co.nz"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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