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Canada News API

Get the live top headlines from Canada with our JSON API.

Get API key for the Canada 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 Canada.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=ca&category=general&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 358112,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "5931ca7d0c7532153403d5eaae693a0d",
            "title": "Taylor Swift Plays Aunt to Travis Kelce's Nieces While Chiefs Are Eliminated From Playoffs",
            "description": "Taylor Swift's already practicing her aunt skills -- playing with Jason and Kylie Kelce's kids at Travis' game on Sunday -- while her man dealt with heartbreak on the field.",
            "content": "Taylor Swift's already practicing her aunt skills -- playing with Jason and Kylie Kelce's kids at Travis' game on Sunday -- while her man dealt with heartbreak on the field.\nThe singer-songwriter was spotted in her usual spot while Kansas City took o... [1056 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.tmz.com/2025/12/14/taylor-swift-with-travis-kelce-nieces-while-chiefs-get-eliminated/",
            "image": "https://imagez.tmz.com/image/33/16by9/2025/12/14/33cecd371a314f1eabb8107d58220bc1_xl.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-14T22:11:08Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "3539b82bbf6242ee8b4c1fbed4ea5ec7",
                "name": "TMZ",
                "url": "https://www.tmz.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "1b4a622b47e3a9fc32277c4784b5c32b",
            "title": "Canucks' Zeev Buium says he wasn't misled by Wild prior to trade",
            "description": "Zeev Buium said he doesn't feel he was misled about his status with the Wild before being traded to the Canucks as part of a package for Quinn Hughes.",
            "content": "NEWARK, N.J. -- Zeev Buium was the Minnesota Wild's defenseman of the future until they made him the centerpiece of the Quinn Hughes trade last Friday, shipping the 20-year-old in a package to the Vancouver Canucks for their star captain.\nBuium said ... [1940 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/47306688/canucks-zeev-buium-says-misled-wild-prior-trade",
            "image": "https://a2.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1214%2Fr1589331_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-14T21:36:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0207e330d5d787ce8251900411dd488d",
                "name": "ESPN",
                "url": "https://www.espn.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "494e45a89ee1ca12df9cc9eee8c8ad7f",
            "title": "Les Chiefs perdent Mahomes et leurs espoirs de faire les éliminatoires",
            "description": "Pour une première fois en plus de 10 ans, KC ne participera pas aux éliminatoires.",
            "content": "Quatre situations distinctes devant se produire, dimanche, afin que les Chiefs de Kansas City soient éliminés de la course aux éliminatoires.\nLes Bills de Buffalo ont remporté leur match, tout comme les Jaguars de Jacksonville et les Texans de Housto... [3749 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.rds.ca/football/nfl/article/les-chiefs-perdent-mahomes-et-leurs-espoirs-de-faire-les-eliminatoires/",
            "image": "https://www.rds.ca/resizer/v2/AKKUL427XRDK3JUJXXGISJSGCA.jpg?smart=true&auth=563c19d62a61df0956357f3ddaf6e41c6362376eb25cdd77a2416fbef1ef3cf8&width=1200&height=630",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-14T21:21:38Z",
            "lang": "fr",
            "source": {
                "id": "f8f4e5e8c91e665de255923c777c6158",
                "name": "RDS",
                "url": "https://www.rds.ca"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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