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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": 318304,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "789b335cb317fd63817672d256fd521a",
            "title": "Huge fire engulfs Kuwait City tower as Trump accuses Starmer of seeking to 'join wars after we've already won'",
            "description": "Heavy Israeli airstrikes hit Iranian oil depots, with residents telling the BBC 'it was as if the night had turned into day'.",
            "content": "IDF says it carried out strike on Iranian forces in Beirut\nAs we had been reporting earlier, the IDF said in a post on Telegram that they carried out a \"precise strike\" which targeted \"key commanders in the IRGC's Quds Force's Lebanon Corps who opera... [2215 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cz0g2yg3579t",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/ace8/live/f50b4ac0-1aa5-11f1-801d-ed3cff6bf876.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-08T04:22:25Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f331a5ed3965fb59761dfcecfc7e7a34",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "e3071145138f14a3382f881612415af8",
            "title": "Middle East crisis live: China warns world cannot return to ‘law of the jungle’; Trump says Iran being ‘decimated’",
            "description": "Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi says US-Israel war on Iran ‘should never have happened’ as strikes continue to hit Tehran and Beirut",
            "content": "Israel is renewing its assault on southern Lebanon, including targeting commanders of the Lebanese branch of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force in Beirut.\nThe Israeli military said in a statement that it would “not allow Iranian terrorist elemen... [4398 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/mar/08/middle-east-crisis-live-china-warns-world-cannot-return-to-law-of-the-jungle-trump-says-iran-being-decimated",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c825c3fddd65ab3de07ae2542cb43a435e3ca8f0/500_0_5000_4000/master/5000.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctbGl2ZS5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=5a8720787db9ee30e42c0a94231e3b9d",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-08T04:13:23Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "bcf69b343c4ba38ac01ca7202f7b4b92",
            "title": "SA government's cancer patient email blunder was 'completely unacceptable', premier says",
            "description": "Peter Malinauskas says his government made an \"unacceptable\" error in releasing an email it claimed was from a terminal cancer patient who later died, but that turned out to be from a different man with the same name.",
            "content": "SA Premier Peter Malinauskas says his government made an \"unacceptable\" error in releasing an email it claimed was from a terminal cancer patient who later died, but that turned out to be from a different man with the same name.\nThe state opposition ... [3463 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-08/sa-premier-concedes-unacceptable-error-in-email-release-blunder/106429604",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/f17d3531903b58064a6c64b16879f911?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=720&cropW=1280&xPos=0&yPos=6&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-08T03:52:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "Australian Broadcasting Corporation",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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