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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": 143306,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "d2b3671bb5ec94fdfbcc7227363902e3",
            "title": "Ivan Milat was convicted of murdering seven people. Could he have killed scores more?",
            "description": "Retired UK detective believes family member was serial killer’s first unacknowledged victim, as NSW inquiry into unsolved murders calls for submissions",
            "content": "Hugh Hughes, a retired UK detective with the Metropolitan police, has spent three decades travelling back and forth between his home in Wales and Canberra, trying to solve the murder of Keren Rowland, a cousin of his Australian wife, Andrea.\nHughes i... [7869 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/01/ivan-milat-was-convicted-of-murdering-seven-people-could-he-have-killed-scores-more",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/186c54e171f1b9814547982ae3872f195cf8dd6e/247_630_1634_1308/master/1634.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=8e34b20a204e07c42a229ce081183f57",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-30T14:03:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "62c4485790b5345cb712acf5a8f1ad22",
            "title": "Dining across the divide: ‘I was nervous - was he going to attack me for being a snowflake?’",
            "description": "A Green-party globalist and a right-of-centre Tory clash over immigration. Would they see eye to eye over reparations?",
            "content": "Peter, 34, London\nOccupation Former civil servant, now a student, studying public health\nVoting record Green last time (and a member of the party); previously Labour. Describes himself as “left, and globalist rather than nationalist”\nAmuse bouche A d... [4056 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/nov/30/dining-across-the-divide-peter-akshat",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1af723db003c2ea4fe5613402935d9ee87007c1a/792_0_7920_6336/master/7920.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=cee1300a41869f0036ac0809e3c01234",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-30T12:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "b6bbacb34ca0ff60ca48fb1fb25c0c36",
            "title": "Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu formally asks to be pardoned from corruption charges",
            "description": "Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has formally asked for a pardon from President Isaac Herzog relating to corruption charges against him.",
            "content": "Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has formally asked for a pardon from President Isaac Herzog relating to corruption charges against him.\n\"In accordance with the guidelines and procedures, the request is currently being transferred to the Par... [1202 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-30/israeli-pm-benjamin-netanyahu-asks-for-pardon/106084498",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/bb0e88a3d829179fbbd908137d874c63?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=2811&cropW=4997&xPos=0&yPos=407&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-30T11:21:56Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "abc.net.au",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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