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Australia News API

Get the live top headlines from Australia with our JSON API.

Get API key for the Australia News API

API 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=general&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 329902,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "f5a935379afe3a3cbb47b013b37173eb",
            "title": "Artemis II on track to break humanity's all",
            "description": "The Artemis II astronauts are on track to break humanity's all-time distance record from Earth before embarking on a six-hour flyby of the Moon. Follow live.",
            "content": "It's official — Artemis II has just taken humans farther from Earth than ever before.\nThe crew has now passed the 400,171-kilometre mark set by Apollo 13 in 1970, setting a new record for the most distant humans in history.\nIt's a milestone more than... [2237 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-07/artemis-ii-on-track-to-break-all-time-distance-record/106534158",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/99317f6f9275c00f9ffe5b4cb5c9d691?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=1080&cropW=1920&xPos=0&yPos=180&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-06T17:37:17Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "Australian Broadcasting Corporation",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "4723defe5071bad9162f87fbe2f4d96c",
            "title": "Artemis 2 Astronauts’ Epic iPhone Photos Are All… Selfies?",
            "description": "Turns out the incredible photos taken by the astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft are from the iPhone 17 Pro Max's front-facing camera and not its better rear shooters.",
            "content": "Over the weekend, the astronauts on NASA’s Artemis 2 mission snapped some of the most evocative images of Earth from space. And they were shot on an iPhone 17 Pro Max, though not with the lens you’re probably expecting.\nWhat is left for the “shot on ... [2267 chars]",
            "url": "https://gizmodo.com/artemis-2-astronauts-epic-iphone-photos-are-all-selfies-2000742965",
            "image": "https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/04/Artemis-II-Reid-Wiseman-Selfie-1-1200x675.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-06T17:30:54Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "b86966b1ce9f29cc65fd4b3bf0671e5c",
                "name": "Gizmodo",
                "url": "https://gizmodo.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "d48b9931c08dbb06a2fdfaa8aa4ae9e8",
            "title": "Mechanical Inputs Boost Quantum Sensor States",
            "description": "Most people think of diamonds as high-end adornments. Not Ania Bleszynski Jayich. The UC Santa Barbara physicist sees diamonds, which she grows in",
            "content": "Most people think of diamonds as high-end adornments. Not Ania Bleszynski Jayich. The UC Santa Barbara physicist sees diamonds, which she grows in the UC Quantum Foundry, as a potentially powerful foundation for quantum sensors.\nSensors are currently... [6346 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.miragenews.com/mechanical-inputs-boost-quantum-sensor-states-1650636/",
            "image": "https://cdn1.miragenews.com/tmp_cache?cdn=images.unsplash.com%2Fphoto-1587955415524-bb264e518428%3Fixlib%3Drb-4.0.3%26amp%3Bixid%3DMnwxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8%26amp%3Bauto%3Dformat%26amp%3Bfit%3Dcrop%26amp%3Bw%3D1170%26amp%3Bq%3D80",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-06T16:42:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0368281c39ba31f7435685e8b620f675",
                "name": "Mirage News",
                "url": "https://www.miragenews.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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