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": 341712,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "cd083dd4146713587e96db8b3f289452",
            "title": "New Zealand declares state of emergency in Wellington as floods hit",
            "description": "Footage online show vehicles submerged, trees uprooted and houses hit by landslides.",
            "content": "New Zealand has declared a state of emergency in its capital city Wellington as torrential rain and flash flooding drenched the country's North Island.\nFootage online shows vehicles submerged, trees uprooted and houses hit by landslides. Wellington r... [1931 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly75d9zvj3o",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/e26e/live/5282c970-3c71-11f1-b8ff-2fae92a33548.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-20T05:15:50Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f331a5ed3965fb59761dfcecfc7e7a34",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "95a10e5bb44aba0e37c43fbd23144617",
            "title": "Arsenic Trisulfide: Laser Shapes Nano-optics Clay",
            "description": "Scientists from the XPANCEO Emerging Technologies Research Center, in collaboration with Nobel Laureate Prof. Konstantin Novoselov (University of",
            "content": "Scientists from the XPANCEO Emerging Technologies Research Center, in collaboration with Nobel Laureate Prof. Konstantin Novoselov (University of Manchester and the National University of Singapore), have discovered novel optical properties in arseni... [3981 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.miragenews.com/arsenic-trisulfide-laser-shapes-nano-optics-clay-1658137/",
            "image": "https://cdn1.miragenews.com/tmp_cache?cdn=images.unsplash.com%2Fphoto-1583912372325-0c5be28e3590%3Fixid%3DMnwxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8%26amp%3Bixlib%3Drb-1.2.1%26amp%3Bauto%3Dformat%26amp%3Bfit%3Dcrop%26amp%3Bw%3D753%26amp%3Bq%3D80",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-20T05:02:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0368281c39ba31f7435685e8b620f675",
                "name": "Mirage News",
                "url": "https://www.miragenews.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "63db486d5b9bdd6577f1cec675367a9b",
            "title": "WA prospector discovers rare cosmic debris in 'the middle of nowhere'",
            "description": "The object formed when a meteorite slammed into Earth more than 800,000 years ago.",
            "content": "A prospector in WA's Goldfields has found a rare piece of cosmic debris known as an australite, which formed hundreds of thousands of years ago.\nJim Miles was prospecting for gold in \"the middle of nowhere\", about 150 kilometres north-east of Kalgoor... [2077 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-20/prospector-finds-rare-australite-wa-goldfields/106576110",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/b6295fe459af8a1bcca4715c201ed041?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=726&cropW=1290&xPos=0&yPos=531&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-20T04:47:24Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "Australian Broadcasting Corporation",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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