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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": 251100,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "fb512b052b5bd4323c58df823db2fe3f",
            "title": "making by early humans occurred 400,000 years ago: study",
            "description": "Archaeologists have uncovered the earliest-known evidence of deliberately lit campfires at a site in the UK dated to be 400,000 years old.",
            "content": "Starting a fire is no easy feat, but new research suggests ancient humans were doing it hundreds of thousands of years ago.\nA new study, published in the journal Nature today, has uncovered the oldest-known evidence of fire-making in the world.\nThe d... [6230 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-12-11/oldest-fire-making-flint-ancient-humans/106118714",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/1fe75d1add631383a1ccfa1b9ea5edd0?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=2250&cropW=4000&xPos=0&yPos=355&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-10T18:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "Australian Broadcasting Corporation",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "ea9b9a1865bd6786d018a30bf51a73b8",
            "title": "Study provides new insights into brain signaling during sleep and wakefulness",
            "description": "An international team led by the University of Michigan has introduced new methods that reveal which regions of the brain were active throughout the day with single-cell resolution.",
            "content": "An international team led by the University of Michigan has introduced new methods that reveal which regions of the brain were active throughout the day with single-cell resolution.\nUsing mouse models, the researchers developed an experimental protoc... [5714 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.news-medical.net/news/20251210/Study-provides-new-insights-into-brain-signaling-during-sleep-and-wakefulness.aspx",
            "image": "https://www.news-medical.net/image-handler/picture/2016/3/Artificially_Colored_MRI_Scan_Of_Human_Brain-Daisy_Daisy_a8c5d8bbbf824bc8932308e30187510f-620x480.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-10T17:37:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f2ca7a45d20357cb42858868cb4a4946",
                "name": "News-Medical",
                "url": "https://www.news-medical.net"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "cbfb39934118be643009f9a7f59f780b",
            "title": "Amazon rainforest is transitioning to a 'hypertropical' climate - and trees won't survive that for long",
            "description": "The Amazon rainforest currently has a few days or weeks of hot drought conditions per year, but researchers say this could increase to 150 days per year by 2100.",
            "content": "The Amazon rainforest is inching toward a \"hypertropical\" climate regime that has not existed on Earth for at least 10 million years, new research suggests.\nScientists predict this regime will cause more frequent and extreme droughts, which could lea... [3730 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/plants/amazon-rainforest-is-transitioning-to-a-hypertropical-climate-and-trees-wont-survive-that-for-long",
            "image": "https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ao5NjQ8VWKScPTKHNwu7u3-2176-80.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-10T17:26:29Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "95993cee63c947c63f6bfe9192834ef8",
                "name": "Live Science",
                "url": "https://www.livescience.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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