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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": 251432,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "6507a4b2947c8488481d7274707b0f5d",
            "title": "The Gemind meteor shower peaks",
            "description": "The countdown to 2026 is underway, but before the year ends we have the most active meteor shower of the year.",
            "content": "When and where\nThe Geminid meteor shower peaks\nThe countdown to 2026 is underway, but before the year ends we have the most active meteor shower of the year.\nSometimes nicknamed the \"King of Meteor Showers,\" the Geminids peak late on the night of Dec... [1578 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.weatherandradar.com/weather-news/the-gemind-meteor-shower-peaks--75b3da44-0bf4-4b7a-bee4-12c975cbd465",
            "image": "https://purple-cdn.web-apps-prod.wo-cloud.com/purple/0f7a645f-e3c1-4a9c-a6dd-ccfa5dff68a7/ccaeda65-166e-49c6-bbcd-ece973f0339c/75b3da44-0bf4-4b7a-bee4-12c975cbd465/thumbnails/3ddbcd08-14ba-4a6d-859a-7eee3ad93718.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-13T20:05:22Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "6e318391568a122c60afe4198fd119d8",
                "name": "Weather & Radar USA",
                "url": "https://www.weatherandradar.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "8d8cd975bcb08a3e9ad54c598b450043",
            "title": "Gippsland teenager Ethan Monck celebrates first job after a lifetime battling cancer",
            "description": "Ethan Monck's health problems began the day he was born. Now aged 17, he's celebrating after starting his first job and the freedom it gives him to pursue his hobbies.",
            "content": "Ethan Monck's health struggles began the day he was born.\nUnable to turn inside his mother’s womb, with his umbilical cord precariously looped between his legs, Ethan was born jaundiced by Caesarean section in 2008, and spent his first days of life i... [4155 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-14/ethan-monck-gets-his-first-job-fast-food-chain-mcdonalds/106001356",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/a526168cabaf23274e9db332cea45488?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=856&cropW=1522&xPos=0&yPos=81&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-13T19:46:40Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "Australian Broadcasting Corporation",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "578ae613c2db9b6869f3e2c69b2972ab",
            "title": "year mystery ends with missing RAAF fighters found in PNG plane wreckage",
            "description": "After more than eight decades, James Burrowes had just about given up hope of ever knowing what truly happened to his uncle Tom, an Air Force fighter who disappeared in World War II.",
            "content": "When Robert Burrowes got a phone call asking if he was related to Australian Air Force fighter Thomas Burrowes, he had no idea an 82-year-old mystery had just been solved.\nHe assumed the genealogist from the Australian Defence Force was just ringing ... [5809 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-14/missing-raaf-ww2-fighters-found-plane-wreckage-png-rainforest/106126682",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/f51555f2bd5d7f7478b28bece2f80cec?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=450&cropW=800&xPos=0&yPos=75&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-13T19:27:18Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "Australian Broadcasting Corporation",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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