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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": 429704,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "364ba6482b3544087aa4f0948f3b0625",
            "title": "‘Renewed sense of hope’: Date set for Kelowna woman’s liver transplant surgery",
            "description": "Lyndsay Richholt is set for surgery on Apr. 10",
            "content": "A Kelowna mom finally has a date set for her liver transplant.\nAfter believing she was “forgotten about” while on the waitlist, then a delay due to an incident with her donor, and “entering end-stage liver failure,” Lyndsay Richholt is finally underg... [1467 chars]",
            "url": "https://crestonvalleyadvance.ca/2026/03/07/renewed-sense-of-hope-date-set-for-kelowna-womans-liver-transplant-surgery/",
            "image": "https://crestonvalleyadvance.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2026/03/41759113_web1_260205-KCN-richholt-update_1.jpg?w=1024",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-07T19:40:55Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "67d4062065d5a783eed681962c852279",
                "name": "Creston Valley Advance",
                "url": "https://crestonvalleyadvance.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "6ff02e4ec5d6c909308567961b17a49d",
            "title": "La santé des femmes; parent pauvre de la recherche scientifique?",
            "description": "Écoutez l’extrait de l’émission Culture et confiture : La santé des femmes; parent pauvre de la recherche scientifique?",
            "content": "Savez-vous ce qu’est le syndrome des ovaires polykystiques (SOPK), appelé PCOS en anglais? Sauriez-vous reconnaître les symptômes de l’endométriose? En quoi le désir de la femme est-il différent de celui de l’homme? Certaines de ces questions sont ab... [405 chars]",
            "url": "https://ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premiere/emissions/culture-et-confiture/segments/rattrapage/2317208/sante-femmes-parent-pauvre-recherche-scientifique",
            "image": "https://images.radio-canada.ca/v1/audio/generateur-images/16x9/cc-balado-vulvalution-mathilde-wilhelmy.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-07T18:14:05Z",
            "lang": "fr",
            "source": {
                "id": "197e8e0f338b074f642026d5a319d658",
                "name": "Radio-Canada",
                "url": "https://ici.radio-canada.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "6b637a354a33280a469fddaabefb612f",
            "title": "Para alpine skier Eriksson, guide Smith earn silver for Canada's 1st medal of Milano-Cortina Paralympics",
            "description": "Para alpine skier Kalle Eriksson and guide Sierra Smith took silver in the men's visually impaired downhill competition for Canada's first medal of the Milano-Cortina Paralympics on Saturday in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.",
            "content": "Para alpine skier Kalle Eriksson and guide Sierra Smith took silver in the men's visually impaired downhill competition for Canada's first medal of the Milano-Cortina Paralympics on Saturday in Cortina d'Ampezzo , Italy.\nThe duo clocked a time of one... [5369 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/sports/paralympics/kalle-eriksson-sierra-smith-downhill-milano-cortina-9.7118741",
            "image": "https://i.cbc.ca/ais/5b46f35b-7233-44da-a73a-95ea39401c61,1772888163726/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C38%2C4847%2C2726%29%3BResize%3D620",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-07T17:01:10Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "aa998c61041906c2082d63fdef6cc33a",
                "name": "CBC",
                "url": "https://www.cbc.ca"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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