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": 329930,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "3122e3770aa421415e003c3e44eee502",
            "title": "The moment I knew: Our knees touched and we froze - it was cinematic",
            "description": "Tomas Telegramma had a platonic chemistry with his colleague Steph Vigilante. But one night as the heaven’s opened, so did his emotional floodgates",
            "content": "In 2019, I started a job as a junior editor for an online city guide in Melbourne. I was struck by the social media coordinator Steph, who worked quietly and diligently in a corner of the office, but had a surname that was at odds with her vibe. She ... [3732 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/apr/19/the-moment-i-knew-our-knees-touched-and-we-froze-it-was-cinematic",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/3a07c6e0ba62bca7c07d1dc9fe203b570e7b7745/442_1389_2350_1880/master/2350.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=6af553bbae2b209038ac076d61e3ad29",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-18T20:02:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "2bcae77c8638ad4d97702b55c603e5d4",
            "title": "Iran war live updates: Iran opens fire on ships travelling through Strait of Hormuz",
            "description": "The two Indian-flagged vessels reported being fired upon by gunboats from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, just a day after the strait was declared open by Iran's foreign minister. Follow live.",
            "content": "The UK Maritime Trade Operations centre (UKMTO), the Dubai-based office run by the British naval reserve which serves as the primary military point of contact for merchant ships in the Gulf, has released more information about the two Indian-flagged ... [2821 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-19/iran-war-live-updates-blockade-hormuz-us-middle-east/106580252",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/1a4bc8c9c0ea72a4642dcfd1f9009c03?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=2592&cropW=4608&xPos=0&yPos=0&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-18T19:50:56Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "Australian Broadcasting Corporation",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "1dc246e69239500b6dd26eaa36a9688e",
            "title": "NDIS unregistered provider crackdown coming, as Butler searches for more than $6b in savings",
            "description": "NDIS Minister Mark Butler will announce reforms to the disability scheme on Wednesday that will aim to save more than $6 billion a year by 2035 — and the largely unregulated market of NDIS providers is at the top of his reform list.",
            "content": "NDIS Minister Mark Butler's plan to save more than $6 billion a year in National Disability Insurance Scheme spending by 2036 is expected to include a crackdown on unregistered providers, in an effort to preserve the $50 billion scheme's \"social lice... [8645 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-19/ndis-unregistered-providers-6b-savings-price-reform/106571188",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/a0edb782f57ab83487403e465c732179?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=2813&cropW=5000&xPos=0&yPos=260&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-18T19:15:49Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "Australian Broadcasting Corporation",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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