New Zealand Nation News API

Get the live top nation 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 nation 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=nation&country=nz&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=nation" \
  --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": "nation", "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: "nation",
    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" => "nation",
    "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=nation&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": 47174,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "8fd5846fb1a9d7cfe96f47dc76eedd65",
            "title": "Greens' Marama Davidson doubles down amid outrage over gang visit",
            "description": "Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson is doubling down on her candidates meeting with patched gang members and having photos taken with them in the middle of an election campaign.",
            "content": "Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson is doubling down on her candidates meeting with patched gang members and having photos taken with them in the middle of an election campaign.\nLabour leader Chris Hipkins has condemned the photos posted by Mongrel... [5788 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics_election-2026/1923070/greens-marama-davidson-doubles-down-amid-outrage-over-gang-visit",
            "image": "https://media.rnztools.nz/rnz/image/upload/s--GqLlWWLA--/t_tohu-badge-facebook/f_auto/q_auto/4JGRPBC_Mongrel_Mob_png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T23:58:03Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "79971a6b38016604095f88394b17172a",
                "name": "RNZ",
                "url": "https://www.rnz.co.nz"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "9fa32446d3969dee158b5d4232de8316",
            "title": "Greens vow to reverse National's $2.4b public service cuts at cost of $3.17b",
            "description": "The Green Party says it will reverse the National Party's $2.4 billion cuts to the public service if elected, at a cost of $3.17 billion over four years.",
            "content": "The Green Party says it will reverse the National Party's $2.4 billion cuts to the public service if elected, at a cost of $3.17 billion over four years.\nGreen Party co-leader Marama Davidson said on Thursday National's \"reckless\" cuts to public serv... [1346 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics_election-2026/1921798/greens-vow-to-reverse-national-s-2-point-4b-public-service-cuts-at-cost-of-3-point-17b",
            "image": "https://media.rnztools.nz/rnz/image/upload/s--VYgFVt2F--/t_tohu-badge-facebook/f_auto/q_auto/4JGQ2H5_Media_78_jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T23:28:01Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "79971a6b38016604095f88394b17172a",
                "name": "RNZ",
                "url": "https://www.rnz.co.nz"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "a8b75f346a9b81cf54c28ae25ade3a8a",
            "title": "Luckless job hunter Karina Atkins who applied for 300 jobs lands role after year",
            "description": "Jobhunter Karina Atkins, who has finally found work after applying for 331 roles in just over a year, says the process “wasn’t easy” but taught her...",
            "content": "She said that while it wasn’t easy, she had learned greater resilience.\n“It’s not easy but it builds resilience and I know there’s a learning in here for me ... I know there’s a reason I’ve gone through this journey.\n“People come up to me in the supe... [1126 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/luckless-job-hunter-karina-atkins-who-applied-for-300-jobs-lands-role-after-year/36ZJUA3HQZHW5CTVTJJS7TDS7E/",
            "image": "https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/XQ4ULYCBGFEI7NSEREZNFAGSWA.JPG?auth=bc67bb3b0b86c2f90eea7f0ea27e19158a5436b5c81dac6c860ffc0914280421&width=1200&height=675&quality=70&focal=1516%2C837&smart=false",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T23:07:49Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "a086bc2011f6ea09f34f87b9ef0a588b",
                "name": "NZ Herald",
                "url": "https://www.nzherald.co.nz"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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