
Australia Nation News API
Get the live top nation headlines from Australia with our JSON API.
Get API key for the Australia Nation News APIAPI Demonstration
This example demonstrates the HTTP request to make and the JSON response you will receive when you use the news api to get the top headlines from Australia.
GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=au&category=nation&apikey=API_KEY
{ "totalArticles": 4108070, "articles": [ { "title": "Helicopter scrambles to site of air crash on K’gari", "description": "The aircraft, reported to be a helicopter or gyrocopter, came down on an isolated part of the island, with the nearest camping area only accessible to visitors by boat.", "content": "An aircraft reported to be a helicopter or gyrocopter has crashed near a camping area on K’gari, formerly known as Fraser Island.\nQueensland Ambulance says the light aircraft came down in an isolated area near Moon Point camping ground just after noo... [318 chars]", "url": "https://www.smh.com.au/national/queensland/helicopter-scrambles-to-site-of-air-crash-on-k-gari-20250418-p5lssd.html", "image": "https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.176%2C$multiply_0.7554%2C$ratio_1.777778%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_94/t_crop_custom/q_86%2Cf_auto/t_smh_no_label_no_age_social_wm/a2824387a78a2b4d86bef9556170a1eaa6bf31237a65d076fedeac421aad341c", "publishedAt": "2025-04-18T04:27:14Z", "source": { "name": "The Sydney Morning Herald", "url": "https://www.smh.com.au" } }, { "title": "Woman dead and man missing after being swept from rocks near popular coastal walk in Victoria", "description": "One woman managed to get back to shore after three washed into water near George Bass coastal walk south of Melbourne", "content": "A woman has died and a man is missing after they were swept from rocks near a popular coastal walk.\nEmergency workers were called to a beach off Punch Bowl Road near San Remo, 125km south-east of Melbourne, on Friday morning after reports three peopl... [923 chars]", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/18/woman-dead-and-man-missing-after-being-swept-from-rocks-near-popular-coastal-walk-in-victoria", "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/41f07c9a72f54a4f47459d8dbf0d402bd7d57a60/0_239_7217_4332/master/7217.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=8504ab6ecdad231090fb2515b403f87c", "publishedAt": "2025-04-18T03:47:51Z", "source": { "name": "The Guardian", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com" } }, { "title": "Indonesia has friendly ties with Russia. Experts say that's not necessarily cause for alarm", "description": "While 70 per cent of Australians surveyed hold a \"very unfavourable\" view of Russia, that's only the case for 6 per cent of Indonesians.", "content": "Signs of Russia's long relationship with Indonesia are hidden in plain sight.\nAcross the road from the ABC's Jakarta bureau, surrounded by glittering malls, five-star hotels and skyscrapers, stands the city's welcome monument: a Soviet-inspired statu... [4705 chars]", "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-18/russia-has-a-long-history-of-friendship-with-indonesia/105191070", "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/e9a4fec12e0c34f5f870da7073b6af28?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=2791&cropW=4962&xPos=0&yPos=111&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic", "publishedAt": "2025-04-18T02:45:29Z", "source": { "name": "Australian Broadcasting Corporation", "url": "https://www.abc.net.au" } } ] }