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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": 264546,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "1386303f4de0972e24cc5594c2097e71",
            "title": "Previously secret cabinet documents reveal Howard government tried to mitigate 'homegrown' terrorist threat",
            "description": "From expectations of a trade union backlash against controversial industrial relations reform, to concerns about \"homegrown\" extremism in Australia, here are what previously unseen cabinet documents tell us about Australian politics in 2005.",
            "content": "As the Albanese government grapples with the aftermath of the nation's worst act of terrorism at Bondi Beach, previously secret cabinet documents reveal the Howard government was working to mitigate concerns about a \"homegrown\" terrorist threat two d... [8101 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-01/revelations-from-previously-secret-2005-cabinet-documents/106150758",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/b6530756e95a314089de6af96a792c96?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=1386&cropW=2464&xPos=0&yPos=82&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-31T13:16:26Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "Australian Broadcasting Corporation",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "b3e666a746652cac1f3404505b73d1ad",
            "title": "Cafe boss clocks 10 per cent Ryzen 7 9800X3D deaths on Asus boards",
            "description": "15 dead chips out of 150, and the body count keeps climbing A Redditor, u/RealisticLoad3327, says they run an internet cafe and have lost 15 Ryzen 7 9...",
            "content": "The failure chatter is now giving Intel's 13th and 14th-gen high-end mess a run for its money, which is not the sort of competition AMD should want.\nMost reports previously pointed the finger at ASRock motherboards, but this batch is nastier because ... [1404 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.fudzilla.com/news/62293-cafe-boss-clocks-10-per-cent-ryzen-7-9800x3d-deaths-on-asus-boards",
            "image": "https://www.fudzilla.com/media/k2/items/cache/e38b9c22da8fa8c916c7b88b5d6d2b37_XS.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-31T11:57:14Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "95499b32c6e13b9cb5e32507221290b4",
                "name": "Fudzilla.com",
                "url": "https://www.fudzilla.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "c812f28d52cfe83997e8c82a1b02fb90",
            "title": "Thailand releases 18 soldiers held since July as part of border conflict ceasefire deal",
            "description": "The release is a key part of a ceasefire deal struck to bring peace to the border between the two countries.",
            "content": "Eighteen Cambodian soldiers have received a hero's welcome home after Thailand released them as part of a truce deal that ended weeks of deadly fighting along their contested frontier.\nA decades-old border dispute between the South-East Asian neighbo... [3893 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-31/thailand-releases-cambodian-soldiers-as-part-of-ceasefire-deal/106190984",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/3fc709757b46980e20f0794da1c2c3e2?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=2813&cropW=5000&xPos=0&yPos=463&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-31T11:39:28Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "Australian Broadcasting Corporation",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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