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": 341404,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "89dd09616f35999757748487f57b661f",
            "title": "Take time out in nature for your headspace",
            "description": "NATURE is a healing force that the modern world, crammed with technology, has forgotten. Recent studies have shown that reconnection with nature has significant benefits to mental health, especially in young people who are most vulnerable in the social media and AI age.Research conducted by the Nature Scripts program, a partnership between the People & Parks Foundation, University of Melbourne and headspace Shepparton, has planted the seed for Nature Neighbours.",
            "content": "By Aaron Cordy\nNATURE is a healing force that the modern world, crammed with technology, has forgotten. Recent studies have shown that reconnection with nature has significant benefits to mental health, especially in young people who are most vulnera... [1962 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.sheppadviser.com.au/take-time-out-in-nature-for-your-headspace/",
            "image": "https://www.sheppadviser.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/027A96721_28650-1200x628.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-28T18:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "98b39038d08b2df90acf20f2aeca0c45",
                "name": "The Shepparton Adviser",
                "url": "https://www.sheppadviser.com.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "12080b45ac0f28a134598022cb9dad1a",
            "title": "Microbubble Breakthrough May Boost Cancer Drug Efficacy",
            "description": "The following is a summary of a story that originally appeared on Pratt School of Engineering .Cancer drugs often face a simple problem: They are too",
            "content": "The approach is especially promising for a class of therapies known as PROTACs, which are designed to facilitate the destruction of specific proteins - in this case, a protein that helps cancer cells quickly multiply and form tumors.\n\"PROTAC molecule... [1048 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.miragenews.com/microbubble-breakthrough-may-boost-cancer-drug-1663553/",
            "image": "https://today.duke.edu/sites/default/files/styles/story_body_full_width/public/2026-04/DT%20summary%20SonoPIN%20paper.png?itok=PS02hb0D",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-28T16:46:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0368281c39ba31f7435685e8b620f675",
                "name": "Mirage News",
                "url": "https://www.miragenews.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "8b9c8068af2db55d30baa86902b5587f",
            "title": "Study provides roadmap for safer pharmaceutical analysis methods",
            "description": "A new doctoral thesis at Karlstad University provides increased understanding of how medicines can be analysed more reliably and safely.",
            "content": "A new doctoral thesis at Karlstad University provides increased understanding of how medicines can be analysed more reliably and safely. The research focuses on fundamental investigations of liquid chromatography, one of the most important analytical... [2563 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.news-medical.net/news/20260428/Study-provides-roadmap-for-safer-pharmaceutical-analysis-methods.aspx",
            "image": "https://www.news-medical.net/image-handler/picture/2016/8/shutterstock_170923289_c9dedc501a83476cb0ec771db8452ce8-620x480.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-28T16:37:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f2ca7a45d20357cb42858868cb4a4946",
                "name": "News-Medical",
                "url": "https://www.news-medical.net"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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