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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": 312738,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "02c3f6dadbf3c0e4d6e04086da6425c6",
            "title": "250-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals Origins of Our Unique Hearing",
            "description": "Modern mammals have unique hearing abilities, able to sense a broad range of volumes and frequencies using middle-ear features, including our eardrums and a few small bones.",
            "content": "Modern mammals have unique hearing abilities, able to sense a broad range of volumes and frequencies using middle-ear features, including our eardrums and a few small bones.\nA new study from paleontologists at the University of Chicago in the US has ... [4038 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.sciencealert.com/250-million-year-old-fossil-reveals-origins-of-our-unique-hearing",
            "image": "https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/01/thrinaxodon-illustration.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-01T18:04:33Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "76a2943c768c5c3be7d790e609b40403",
                "name": "ScienceAlert",
                "url": "https://www.sciencealert.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "9fe6e544305d8d7c4e992c37255e40c5",
            "title": "Your sense of self is deeply tied to your memory-here's how",
            "description": "You might say you have a \"bad memory\" because you don't remember what cake you had at your last birthday party or the plot of a movie you watched last month. On the other hand, you might precisely recall the surface temperature of the sun any time when asked.",
            "content": "You might say you have a \"bad memory\" because you don't remember what cake you had at your last birthday party or the plot of a movie you watched last month. On the other hand, you might precisely recall the surface temperature of the sun any time wh... [5357 chars]",
            "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01-deeply-memory.html",
            "image": "https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/hires/2026/your-sense-of-self-is.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-01T17:40:24Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "fc12437cc984742bf9a97820262ab48a",
                "name": "Medical Xpress",
                "url": "https://medicalxpress.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "959c18bc9659b99a285f6c7960f3ddd8",
            "title": "Reading was the key to breaking through the fog of my parents’ dementia",
            "description": "It was hard to communicate with my mother or father, until reading a book out loud led to a discovery, says journalist and radio producer Jo Glanville",
            "content": "The novelist Ian McEwan has advocated for the extension of assisted dying to people with dementia, commenting on the deeply distressing experience of his own mother: “By the time my mother was well advanced and could not recognise anyone, she was dea... [3957 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/01/reading-key-breaking-through-fog-parents-dementia",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ae4a0e6db5f7d1c9b2eb4ae838c2b5582aac4247/0_85_2129_1702/master/2129.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=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctb3BpbmlvbnMucG5n&enable=upscale&s=b98facbcb969b8a10d54366801be47e0",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-01T14:18:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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