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Australia News API

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

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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": 311624,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "6e13afe1e628304dc6a5b6e8f5748438",
            "title": "Breakthrough in Bacterial Cell Division Mechanism",
            "description": "A research team led by UAB researcher David Reverter has discovered the molecular mechanism that describes in detail the process regulating cell",
            "content": "Cell division is a central process in all living organisms and requires the coordinated action of many proteins and other regulatory elements. In most bacteria this process is encoded in a gene cluster called the dcw operon, which groups all the gene... [3277 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.miragenews.com/breakthrough-in-bacterial-cell-division-1620481/",
            "image": "https://www.uab.cat/Imatge/737/932/octamer_WEB,0.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-16T11:32:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0368281c39ba31f7435685e8b620f675",
                "name": "Mirage News",
                "url": "https://www.miragenews.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "37c2a46a73ccabb2901d4d37ada253c8",
            "title": "Precision Limits For Estimating Multiple Parameters Are Now Better Understood",
            "description": "Researchers have clarified the conditions required for achieving the ultimate precision limits in estimating multiple parameters, demonstrating that simple mathematical relationships previously thought sufficient are, in fact, inadequate when accounting for realistic noise in sensing technologies.",
            "content": "Scientists are continually refining the limits of precision in quantum metrology, and a new study by Satoya Imai from the Institute of Systems and Information Engineering and the Center for Artificial Intelligence Research at the University of Tsukub... [8244 chars]",
            "url": "https://quantumzeitgeist.com/precision-limits-estimating-multiple-parameters/",
            "image": "https://quantumzeitgeist.com/wp-content/uploads/Image_fx-4-43.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-16T11:26:25Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "57e0972312d283bae70e31e5b557783c",
                "name": "Quantum Zeitgeist",
                "url": "https://quantumzeitgeist.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "bf8182e6e319c7077f311fe79a4bf0e1",
            "title": "'Dream Engineering' Can Boost Your Puzzle-Solving, Study Suggests",
            "description": "We've seen dream engineering in blockbuster movies like Christopher Nolan's Inception, and a new study shows that the science-fiction-style idea may be much closer to science fact than we realized.",
            "content": "We've seen dream engineering in blockbuster movies like Christopher Nolan's Inception, and a new study shows that the science-fiction-style idea may be much closer to science fact than we realized.\nA team led by researchers from Northwestern Universi... [3933 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.sciencealert.com/dream-engineering-can-boost-your-puzzle-solving-study-suggests",
            "image": "https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/02/SleepingWoman.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-16T11:02:36Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "76a2943c768c5c3be7d790e609b40403",
                "name": "ScienceAlert",
                "url": "https://www.sciencealert.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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