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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": 303488,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "1dc20eb723013542c0826c577b163531",
            "title": "Magma Oceans May Protect Exoplanets From Radiation",
            "description": "New research suggests that molten rock deep inside so-called super-earths may generate powerful magnetic fields necessary for sustaining life.Deep",
            "content": "New research suggests that molten rock deep inside so-called super-earths may generate powerful magnetic fields necessary for sustaining life.\nDeep beneath the surface of distant exoplanets known as super-earths, oceans of molten rock may be doing so... [3809 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.miragenews.com/magma-oceans-may-protect-exoplanets-from-1602902/",
            "image": "https://cdn1.miragenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/newsdevelopments-image.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-15T19:36:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0368281c39ba31f7435685e8b620f675",
                "name": "Mirage News",
                "url": "https://www.miragenews.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "76b3c47481a011538809f28bdc8d6db5",
            "title": "Woman attacked while walking her dog in Melbourne",
            "description": "Police have released a computer-generated image of a man as they investigate the incident.",
            "content": "Police have appealed for public assistance in finding a man who assaulted a woman who was walking her dog in Melbourne late last year.\nThe woman, 35, was walking her dog along the footpath of Riversdale Road, Hawthorn, at about 10.30pm on November 20... [929 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.9news.com.au/national/woman-assaulted-while-walking-dog-melbourne/b8fa596e-cd98-4645-bec3-f6a4daff2c5b",
            "image": "https://imageresizer.static9.net.au/aKfZ_i7Qj94SMoGYxfniYruicq8=/0x815:1440x1625/1200x628/smart/https%3A%2F%2Fprod.static9.net.au%2Ffs%2Ff4fae8e9-4001-4e98-b29a-12bc4624263e",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-15T19:19:19Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0a61032700ac7fb846fa8c9c95b0e2d5",
                "name": "9News.com.au",
                "url": "https://www.9news.com.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "93905101bb64aca4064376c56df1e364",
            "title": "Former Whyalla steelworks owner's $18.5 million royalties debt revealed",
            "description": "The former owner of the Whyalla steelworks, Sanjeev Gupta's OneSteel Manufacturing, owed $18.5 million in royalties when it was forced into administration last year, the ABC can reveal.",
            "content": "The former owner of the Whyalla steelworks owed $18.5 million in royalties when the plant was forced into administration last year, the ABC can reveal.\nMining magnate Sanjeev Gupta's company OneSteel Manufacturing, which is a part of the broader GFG ... [5709 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-16/whyalla-steelworks-onesteel-owed-millions-in-royalties/106209554",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/9f998c697ae6facc6b5ddaea4ea7ed57?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=2762&cropW=4910&xPos=0&yPos=256&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-15T19:06:54Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "Australian Broadcasting Corporation",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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