South Africa Science News API

Get the live top science headlines from South Africa 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 South Africa. 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=za&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=science" \
  --data-urlencode "country=za" \
  --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": "za", "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: "za",
    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"  => "za",
    "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=za&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": 6994,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "bb28683e8e7953791774a64454fd16a4",
            "title": "Using vibrations to reveal what lies beneath other planets' surfaces",
            "description": "Modern space exploration hasn't quite reached \"Star Trek\" levels of boldly going where no one has gone before. But if, like the denizens of the USS Enterprise, astronauts one day want to land on an uncharted planet, they'd first want to know what's on—and under—the surface.",
            "content": "Modern space exploration hasn't quite reached \"Star Trek\" levels of boldly going where no one has gone before. But if, like the denizens of the USS Enterprise, astronauts one day want to land on an uncharted planet, they'd first want to know what's o... [3219 chars]",
            "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-11-vibrations-reveal-beneath-planets-surfaces.html",
            "image": "https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/2026/using-vibrations-to-re-1.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-04T00:10:01Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "6063be7565dcd637bb5d2946ed6c5329",
                "name": "Phys.org",
                "url": "https://phys.org"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "7f9e42d0e04a41c47c008c81afe34204",
            "title": "Moths Have Repeatedly Evolved a Bizarre Way to Scream at Bats: Using Their Genitals",
            "description": "Some evolutionary innovations are so useful that nature keeps on making them.",
            "content": "Some evolutionary innovations are so useful that nature keeps on making them.\nThere's the crab; everyone knows nature keeps making crabs. There's the ability to fly, whether by feathers, membranes, or chitin. And, of course, there's the indispensable... [5853 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.sciencealert.com/moths-have-repeatedly-evolved-a-bizarre-way-to-scream-at-bats-using-their-genitals",
            "image": "https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/11/hawkmoth-1200x675.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-04T00:02:36Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "76a2943c768c5c3be7d790e609b40403",
                "name": "ScienceAlert",
                "url": "https://www.sciencealert.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "18c3f7521c9410adc6bb8c1d04f71a10",
            "title": "Tiny fossils show brittle stars gathered around a dead whale 9.5 million years ago",
            "description": "Tiny skeletal plates recovered beside fossil whale bones in southern Denmark offer a rare glimpse of life around a whale carcass approximately 9.5 million years ago. Researchers have identified a new species of brittle star, Ophiura huebnerjenseni, from the Gram Clay Pit and suggest it represents the first fossil record of brittle stars associated with a whale fall.",
            "content": "Tiny skeletal plates recovered beside fossil whale bones in southern Denmark offer a rare glimpse of life around a whale carcass approximately 9.5 million years ago. Researchers have identified a new species of brittle star, Ophiura huebnerjenseni, f... [3957 chars]",
            "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-11-tiny-fossils-brittle-stars-dead.html",
            "image": "https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/hires/2026/tiny-fossils-show-brit.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-04T00:00:06Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "6063be7565dcd637bb5d2946ed6c5329",
                "name": "Phys.org",
                "url": "https://phys.org"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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