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Australia World News API

Get the live top world headlines from Australia with our JSON API.

Get API key for the Australia World 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=world&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 155250,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "83eec2673f3c329c50e7714442880bbe",
            "title": "Seven dead, 82 missing in Indonesia landslide, agency says",
            "description": "The landslide was reported in the West Bandung region of Indonesia's West Java province, according to the nation's agency spokesperson Abdul Muhari.",
            "content": "Seven people have died and 82 people are missing after a landslide in Indonesia, the nation's disaster mitigation agency has said.\nIt happened in a village in the West Bandung region of Indonesia's West Java province, according to agency spokesperson... [645 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-24/indonesia-landslide-west-bandung-west-java-province/106265558",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/895fe9c43b38332c2dcbf4ca5b7f2260?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=2638&cropW=4690&xPos=0&yPos=244&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-24T05:08:57Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "Australian Broadcasting Corporation",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "5d387e5aadf9937650459c2501f125d4",
            "title": "What Europe Learned From the Greenland Crisis",
            "description": "Territorial integrity is a core tenet of Europe that is at risk from Russian and American imperialism. Brussels has fought back.",
            "content": "As if the Europeans needed another wake-up call about the contempt in which President Trump holds them, his mocking antipathy at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, was a good reminder.\nBut Davos presented another lesson to Europe. Standi... [1199 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/world/europe/sovereignty-european-union-nato.html",
            "image": "https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/01/24/multimedia/24int-europe-sovereignty-assess-01-jbpg/24int-europe-sovereignty-assess-01-jbpg-facebookJumbo.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-24T05:01:07Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "2f580dc49292a1caf59cd86dd3c9e60b",
                "name": "The New York Times",
                "url": "https://www.nytimes.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "307a53906a197b389a8a8cff25921d3c",
            "title": "‘Unfathomable’: Australian veterans disgusted by Trump’s claim allied troops ‘stayed a little back’ from frontline",
            "description": "In casting doubt on Nato’s reliability, US president references Afghanistan campaign – which involved 40,000 Australian troops and left 47 dead",
            "content": "The head of Australia’s largest veteran organisation has categorically rejected Donald Trump’s claim that allied soldiers “stayed a little back” from the frontlines when they supported the US campaign in Afghanistan, calling the comments “unfathomabl... [3725 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/24/unfathomable-australian-veterans-disgusted-by-trumps-claim-allied-troops-stayed-a-little-back-from-frontline",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9632ec86b23698f4fa3f92ec04f2b153fefb54ff/919_0_4593_3675/master/4593.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=c7e71b22fba2489f05dda13ac2ae0ed2",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-24T04:42:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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