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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": 349544,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "da15b01b91f4005e1cae7279d587a8b8",
            "title": "With diagnosis rates steadily increasing, men need to talk about prostate cancer",
            "description": "Michael Platts panicked when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. Now he wants to help others break through the stigma and silence surrounding the condition.",
            "content": "Michael Platts remembers the feeling of panic that set in when he was first diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2020.\n\"When you get a diagnosis of cancer, you start spinning out,\" he said.\n\"I didn't know what to do, where to go.\"\nWhat helped the farmer... [3484 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-16/regional-prostate-cancer-support-groups/106510810",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/69a51df2b131ddd4342273978777596e?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=2813&cropW=5000&xPos=0&yPos=260&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-15T20:30:57Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "Australian Broadcasting Corporation",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "d2c6500c5df20179b04d769e772d8e18",
            "title": "Tracey O’Brien: Equity in Cancer Care Across Communities in NSW",
            "description": "Tracey O’Brien: Equity in Cancer Care Across Communities in NSW / cancer, cancer care, David Harris, NSW, OncoDaily, Oncology, Tracey O'Brien",
            "content": "Tracey O’Brien, Chief Cancer Officer and CEO of Cancer Institute NSW, shared a post on LinkedIn:\n“Equity is one of the three principles of the NSW Cancer Plan, and it needs to be visible in how we work.\nToday’s announcement by David Harris, Minister ... [942 chars]",
            "url": "https://oncodaily.com/voices/tracey-obrien-485304",
            "image": "https://oncodaily.com/pub/uploads/2024/11/IMG_7080-e1741340782349.jpeg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-15T17:01:30Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "654c15cf5fba9c885b59fdc406129149",
                "name": "Oncodaily",
                "url": "https://oncodaily.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "958cee142c28df4ac3024f8c372ea2ff",
            "title": "Strange mammal ancestor laid huge, leathery eggs -‬ and it was key to surviving the world's worst mass extinction",
            "description": "Using synchrotron X-ray CT scans of a fossilized, intact embryo, researchers found evidence that the plant-eating mammal Lystrosaurus laid eggs, which answers a key question about mammalian evolution.",
            "content": "Scientists have cracked a major mystery about mammal evolution after discovering a 250 million-year-old fossilized egg from before the time of the dinosaurs. Researchers say the specimen, which holds a curled-up embryo of the plant-eating animal Lyst... [4948 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.livescience.com/animals/extinct-species/strange-mammal-ancestor-laid-huge-leathery-eggs-and-it-was-key-to-surviving-the-worlds-worst-mass-extinction",
            "image": "https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/H5KqFSt7L4HRdcxnRor7Zm-1920-80.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-15T16:15:56Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "95993cee63c947c63f6bfe9192834ef8",
                "name": "Live Science",
                "url": "https://www.livescience.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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