South Africa Technology News API

Get the live top technology headlines from South Africa 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 technology 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=technology&country=za&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=technology" \
  --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": "technology", "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: "technology",
    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);
}

<?php

$apiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

$query = http_build_query([
    "category" => "technology",
    "country"  => "za",
    "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=technology&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": 22110,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "d20918c5a5fdd4af1f1f97a841df9e4f",
            "title": "Battery anxiety could soon be a thing of the past - here's what changed",
            "description": "OPPO Reno16 F 5G has been built around giving users more battery power without increasing bulk",
            "content": "A phone running low on battery has a way of changing your plans. You start dimming the screen, closing apps, switching off mobile data and calculating whether the remaining percentage will last until you get home. The problem is familiar because smar... [4386 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.citizen.co.za/lifestyle/technology/battery-anxiety-could-soon-be-a-thing-of-the-past-heres-what-changed/",
            "image": "https://media.citizen.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/OPPO-Reno16-F-5G-battery.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T18:14:27Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "70fef475a9ba64f00a42970d13afd011",
                "name": "The Citizen",
                "url": "https://www.citizen.co.za"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "34cc22b7232e2723835b21f6587a1092",
            "title": "Blizzard started restricting players' access to WoW: Forever economy for real-money trading",
            "description": "Developers have turned their attention to shadow entrepreneurs.",
            "content": "Developers have turned their attention to shadow entrepreneurs.\nThe main World of Warcraft and Classic have long become a huge platform for various entrepreneurs who provide services or engage in real-money trading. Such people have also managed to j... [547 chars]",
            "url": "https://ixbt.games/en/news/2026/10/14/blizzard-nacala-lisat-igrokov-dostupa-k-ekonomike-wow-forever-za-torgovliu-s-realnymi-dengami.html",
            "image": "https://media.ixbt.games/1600x900/smart/jpeg/ixbt-data/1726066/media-dc40230426680ef14d7279a5e3edfaeafee89a010f771a4d34ab081a6b705ed0.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T17:56:12Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "d21676b4c4041ff2fd84d4b41641d922",
                "name": "iXBT.games",
                "url": "https://ixbt.games"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "61e096c22a6aa56796c3f41b4f6985df",
            "title": "Deezer adds toggle to hide AI music in search results",
            "description": "Deezer plans to launch a toggle allowing users to filter out AI-generated music, responding to user demand for a more human-centric listening experience.",
            "content": "Deezer is working on a new toggle that lets you hide AI-generated music from your search results, so you can stick to tracks made by real people if that's your thing.\nIn July, more than half of Deezer's daily uploads came from AI; this update gives l... [444 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/science/deezer-adds-toggle-to-hide-ai-music-in-search-results/tldr",
            "image": "https://cf-cdn.newsbytesapp.com/assets/icons/2/favicon-16x16.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T16:10:01Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "a4480be93823b85928b6dac15328ffcc",
                "name": "NewsBytes",
                "url": "https://www.newsbytesapp.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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