Philippines News API

Get the live top headlines from the Philippines 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 headlines from the Philippines. 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=ph&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=general" \
  --data-urlencode "country=ph" \
  --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": "ph", "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: "ph",
    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" => "general",
    "country"  => "ph",
    "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=general&country=ph&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": 287970,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "a7cc375785c03b7a44fd3b8133342352",
            "title": "China tells Philippines to stop politicians crossing 'red lines'",
            "description": "China's top diplomat Wang Yi urged the Philippines on Tuesday to rein in politicians who had repeatedly \"smeared\" Beijing and crossed its \"red lines\".",
            "content": "The two Asian nations have long been at loggerheads over competing claims in the South China Sea, but tensions have risen in recent weeks following several diplomatic incidents.\nBeijing accused Manila last week of \"erecting multiple obstacles\" to its... [1426 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2026/11/04/2567788/china-tells-philippines-stop-politicians-crossing-red-lines",
            "image": "https://media.philstar.com/photos/2026/11/04/wang-yi_2026-11-04_08-27-05.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-04T00:29:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "762005c2c9a526818f8b84d930946662",
                "name": "Philstar.com",
                "url": "https://www.philstar.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "575496e5b145a1a9c0d65843a7e3a994",
            "title": "Myanmar nationals ask Philippines' appeals court to act on stalled war crimes case",
            "description": "Chin war survivors want the DOJ compelled to act on their 2023 complaint.",
            "content": "MANILA, Philippines — Myanmar nationals who survived the civil war in Chin State have asked the Court of Appeals to compel Philippine authorities to act on their war crimes complaint against members of Myanmar's military junta.\nThe petitioners filed ... [2458 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2026/11/04/2567597/myanmar-nationals-ask-philippines-appeals-court-act-stalled-war-crimes-case",
            "image": "https://media.philstar.com/photos/2024/10/10/myanmar-coup_2024-10-10_17-36-27.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T23:30:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "762005c2c9a526818f8b84d930946662",
                "name": "Philstar.com",
                "url": "https://www.philstar.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "3ecc1add8fd1753627c92409ddab1656",
            "title": "Scarcer food may have pushed early humans to rework stone tools for longer use",
            "description": "About 300,000 years ago, the emergence of the first Homo sapiens in Africa was accompanied by major cultural and technological changes, marking the beginning of a new archaeological period, the Middle Stone Age. At that time, African landscapes were also undergoing profound transformations. To understand how the earliest members of our species lived and adapted, it is therefore essential to reconstruct the environments in which they lived.",
            "content": "About 300,000 years ago, the emergence of the first Homo sapiens in Africa was accompanied by major cultural and technological changes, marking the beginning of a new archaeological period, the Middle Stone Age. At that time, African landscapes were ... [3378 chars]",
            "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-11-scarcer-food-early-humans-rework.html",
            "image": "https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/hires/2026/studying-past-landscap.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T23:00:01Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "6063be7565dcd637bb5d2946ed6c5329",
                "name": "Phys.org",
                "url": "https://phys.org"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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