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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": 319928,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "0107816ae4df1a7f44ecf188cd757b15",
            "title": "Fiber intake may reduce heart disease risk in night shift workers",
            "description": "Research shows higher fiber consumption may lower coronary heart disease risk in night shift workers, suggesting dietary adjustments for better health.",
            "content": "A large long-term study suggests that what shift workers eat, especially how much fiber they consume, could meaningfully influence their risk of coronary heart disease, offering a potential dietary strategy to counter the cardiovascular strain of wor... [6209 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.news-medical.net/news/20260226/Fiber-intake-may-reduce-heart-disease-risk-in-night-shift-workers.aspx",
            "image": "https://www.news-medical.net/images/news/ImageForNews_831368_17721012302589859.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-26T10:23:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f2ca7a45d20357cb42858868cb4a4946",
                "name": "News-Medical",
                "url": "https://www.news-medical.net"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "07257c4b1ab4ddf71e61081269119c10",
            "title": "AI Alliance to Predict Childhood OCD Onset",
            "description": "Researchers at Karolinska Institutet are joining an ambitious international collaboration aimed at transforming the early identification and",
            "content": "The project is led by Professor Philip Shaw at the King's Maudsley Partnership for Children & Young People and brings together experts from the UK, Sweden, and Brazil to develop an artificial intelligence-based tool capable of predicting which childr... [1498 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.miragenews.com/ai-alliance-to-predict-childhood-ocd-onset-1627225/",
            "image": "https://news.ki.se/sites/nyheter/files/styles/article_full_width/public/qbank/DavidMataix_fotoStefanZimmerman_custom20260225140615.webp",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-26T09:14:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0368281c39ba31f7435685e8b620f675",
                "name": "Mirage News",
                "url": "https://www.miragenews.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "f6438d20bcf61ca8135fd1d1efde3a23",
            "title": "Palaeontologists hope ancient whale fossil found on Victorian coast will be a window to evolution",
            "description": "A 21-million-year-old fossil found along Victoria's Bellarine Peninsula has been recovered in what has been described as one of the largest and most complicated excavations in the state's history.",
            "content": "An \"extremely rare\" 21-million-year-old whale fossil found along Victoria's Bellarine Peninsula could hold some answers about the evolutionary history of the species.\nSenior palaeontologist at Museums Victoria Research Institute Eric Fitzgerald said ... [3834 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-26/21-million-year-old-whale-fossil-extracted-from-ocean-grove/106392450",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/dde2db3488bc03f8ffb8245278ec33e2?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=2046&cropW=3637&xPos=303&yPos=679&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-26T08:33:31Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "Australian Broadcasting Corporation",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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