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": 345956,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "fc84aa17ffb526c6c55f84677419f585",
            "title": "650 NASA Volunteers Have Co-Authored Scientific Papers",
            "description": "After a recent count, NASA Citizen Science is proud to report that more than 650 people who have volunteered to participate in NASA citizen science",
            "content": "After a recent count, NASA Citizen Science is proud to report that more than 650 people who have volunteered to participate in NASA citizen science projects have co-authored peer-reviewed research papers with scientists on those project teams. These ... [6498 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.miragenews.com/650-nasa-volunteers-have-co-authored-scientific-1667918/",
            "image": "https://assets.science.nasa.gov/dynamicimage/assets/science/cds/citizen-science/highlights/2026/NASA_citizen_scientists_collage.jpg?w=2048&h=1152&fit=clip&crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-05T19:22:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0368281c39ba31f7435685e8b620f675",
                "name": "Mirage News",
                "url": "https://www.miragenews.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "066d9657510c682361d5c5011171827d",
            "title": "Interest rate rises push employed people and young families into mortgage stress",
            "description": "Almost 14,000 Australians rang the National Debt Helpline last month, with most callers saying they are struggling to pay their home loans and are facing mortgage stress, according to new data.",
            "content": "More than 65,000 Australians have contacted the National Debt Helpline in financial distress since the start of the year, with most callers saying they are struggling to pay their home loans.\nYesterday, the Reserve Bank lifted interest rates for a th... [6929 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-06/may-interest-rate-hike-tips-people-into-mortgage-stress-debt/106642232",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/47d9363baeecd558e9f6d5e96549bc49?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=2812&cropW=5000&xPos=0&yPos=0&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-05T18:43:31Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "Australian Broadcasting Corporation",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "02158b460a5b0725ba187f2f6118ff92",
            "title": "JEDEC pushes DDR5 server memory to 12,800 MT/s with new MRDIMM Gen2 standard for AI and data center workloads",
            "description": "These modules are meant for registered server memory ecosystems like cloud servers and AI training clusters, not AM5 or LGA1851 desktop builds.",
            "content": "JEDEC's JC-40 and JC-45 committees have announced a major new step for the DDR5 MRDIMM ecosystem, a memory standard introduced a few years ago to support bandwidth-intensive data workloads. The MRDIMM Gen2 module standard is nearing completion and ta... [2183 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.tweaktown.com/news/111452/jedec-pushes-ddr5-server-memory-to-12800-mt-s-with-new-mrdimm-gen2-standard-for-ai-and-data-center-workloads/index.html",
            "image": "https://static.tweaktown.com/news/1/1/111452_1_jedec-pushes-ddr5-server-memory-to-12-800-mt-with-new-mrdimm-gen2-standard-for-ai-and-data-center-workloads_full.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-05T18:33:05Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "88d2c803bf7465094b81545571a67996",
                "name": "TweakTown",
                "url": "https://www.tweaktown.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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