Australia World News API

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

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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": 171368,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "b35b21738b0efe56dd22c162ae638519",
            "title": "Israel's military crossed a tank over a major Lebanese river. We found where",
            "description": "Images of the first tanks to roll over Lebanon's Litani River were posted online this week. ABC NEWS Verify has found the spot where Israel's military crossed.",
            "content": "On May 31, the Israeli military posted a video showing what it claimed was its first tank to cross the Litani River in southern Lebanon.\nIt's significant because it shows a lone IDF tank crossing a line that, just weeks earlier, had marked the limit ... [3710 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-05/israeli-tanks-cross-the-lintani-river-geolocation-verify/106758296",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/71245188170d6cd7673d524ffdea770f?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=1080&cropW=1920&xPos=0&yPos=0&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-05T02:03:45Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "Australian Broadcasting Corporation",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "2817c6d6f33522a5377a9109be59e693",
            "title": "‘You can stop your war’: Zelenskyy’s open letter to Putin - in full",
            "description": "Russians are increasingly tired of the conflict and the time to end it is now, Ukraine’s president tells his Russian counterpart in an open letter",
            "content": "Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in an open letter to the Vladimir Putin, has called for a face-to-face meeting with the Russian president to end his war against Ukraine.\nThe letter sets out Zelenskyy’s view of the four-year-old conflict and says that while Ukra... [10783 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/05/volodymyr-zelenskyy-open-letter-to-putin-full-text-russia-ukraine-war",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f4235260648da6fa3412fe6723881348e9f8c9c8/0_0_2667_2134/master/2667.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=267c189b64b8ef666b49f7807a849165",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-05T01:55:25Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "0f722f13187588bcf50bf6ff504d6435",
            "title": "Trump attacks CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins amid Paramount-Warner Bros merger",
            "description": "A former aide to the US president said his “misogynistic” treatment of Kaitlan Collins in particular stemmed from fear. But there are also political factors at play amid a mega media merger.",
            "content": "June 5, 2026 — 11:42am\nYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.\nRemove items from your saved list to add more.\nWashington: When Donald Trump targeted CNN journalist Kaitlan Collins in the Oval Office this week, his words struck a familiar... [5280 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/young-beautiful-woman-never-smiles-trump-attacks-journalist-again-amid-battle-for-cnn-20260605-p6044z.html",
            "image": "https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_1%2C$multiply_0.7554%2C$ratio_1.777778%2C$width_1059%2C$x_906%2C$y_184/t_crop_custom/q_86%2Cf_auto/1cd46d0778e33a84c3fdad89f2f8b5ff6d9cd958",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-05T01:42:09Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8952aa953859e9190b836f04018f5efe",
                "name": "The Age",
                "url": "https://www.theage.com.au"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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