United Kingdom Nation News API

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

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=nation" \
  --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": "nation", "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: "nation",
    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" => "nation",
    "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=nation&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": 545676,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "c0ff23e83d30329da48d9d1da3fe520a",
            "title": "Dog that hunts invasive sea creature named animal of the year",
            "description": "A working dog is named animal of the year for hunting out an invasive marine creature, the carpet sea squirt.",
            "content": "Dog that hunts invasive 'sea vomit' honoured as animal of the year\nA working dog from the Scottish Highlands has been named animal of the year by a charity for hunting down an invasive marine creature called the carpet sea squirt.\nThis organism, also... [3701 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvwy761zyx7eo",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/9680/live/9db34b10-c720-11f1-b881-4391ac746e04.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T23:35:40Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f331a5ed3965fb59761dfcecfc7e7a34",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "24c3b6152cbcbd855b026dbb2d2e6ebf",
            "title": "Reform faces criticism after councillors filmed making racist comments",
            "description": "Reform says all of those people filmed by ITV are under investigation having resigned or been suspended.",
            "content": "Warning: This report contains racist and offensive language.\nReform UK has said \"there is no room for racism\" in its party after ITV News broadcast undercover filming, gathered over a year, of some of its councillors and candidates using racist, viol... [2727 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw3dj458re1vo",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/6efd/live/a7d8ab70-c811-11f1-925d-65836471714f.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T22:34:47Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "087ddf758bb924e8b8f064506be09086",
            "title": "UK hospitality sector to offer up to 100,000 jobs to young people out of work",
            "description": "Restaurants and pubs such as Nando’s and Fuller’s will create placements for 18- to 24-year-olds under DWP-backed scheme",
            "content": "Bars, clubs and restaurants will offer up to 100,000 jobs to young people not in employment, education or training (Neet) over the next three years in an effort to give them a first step on the ladder into work.\nThe move comes before the publication ... [3143 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/oct/14/uk-hospitality-sector-100000-jobs-young-people-neets",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/03535cccea0a9663dfcbda2588ef4a86c6aa1456/508_0_5840_4672/master/5840.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=5a57d97072c7a57aeefc64e8c58bbc8d",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T21:30:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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