United Kingdom Entertainment News API

Get the live top entertainment headlines from the United Kingdom 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 the United Kingdom. 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=gb&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=entertainment" \
  --data-urlencode "country=gb" \
  --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": "gb", "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: "gb",
    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"  => "gb",
    "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=gb&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": 636008,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "3889c1e8b93e22e769e19f78d1e58560",
            "title": "Brooklyn novelty shop reeling from 'surreal' row with Kelly Clarkson over mechanical bird",
            "description": "Art of Play says its staff have been threatened after the singer complained online about how she was treated.",
            "content": "On a rainy Wednesday afternoon, a novelty toy and games store in the quiet Brooklyn neighbourhood of Cobble Hill was seeing much busier foot traffic than usual.\nInside, the shop was packed with cameramen and customers, while passersby looked inside, ... [2434 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cxvgdneplgzeo",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/c048/live/3343c710-c81e-11f1-8533-a5e253c1e7c0.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T22:19:13Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "ce08ea32966f4208fdad6494b43d68da",
            "title": "Actress Hilary Swank, 52, is pregnant with her third baby just 3 years after her and husband welcomed twins",
            "description": "ACTRESS Hilary Swank is pregnant with her third child more than three years after welcoming her twins.\nSwank, 52, announced her pregnancy on...",
            "content": "ACTRESS Hilary Swank is pregnant with her third child more than three years after welcoming her twins.\nSwank, 52, announced her pregnancy on social media on Wednesday, sharing a creative video of glowing stick figures with a tiny baby attached to the... [2566 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/40692142/hilary-swank-pregnant-third-baby/",
            "image": "https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/ES_SWANK_OFFPLAT.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1920&h=1080&crop=1",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T21:14:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8312b3960d99553247ab475ee7eeed9a",
                "name": "The Sun",
                "url": "https://www.thesun.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "4c2430c4d52b9198129529236340027f",
            "title": "Russell Brand a ruthless sexual predator, court told",
            "description": "Comedian clutches crucifix as rape trial hears he had child-like expectation that his every desire should be met",
            "content": "Russell Brand was a “ruthless sexual predator” who bragged about wanting to bed 5,000 women, a court has heard.\nThe 51-year-old actor and comedian, who is said to have made advances towards girls within minutes of meeting them, is accused of raping a... [11194 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10/14/russell-brand-a-ruthless-sexual-predator-court-told/",
            "image": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2026/10/14/TELEMMGLPICT000507304255_17919772915030_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqeDlwwsx08AYS0ewNPcMp1LFOdRPIcC1qTwkpchveG0c.jpeg?impolicy=OG-Standard",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T21:05:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0fc579b3cc7a823fd67a74b9ed6f0796",
                "name": "The Telegraph",
                "url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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