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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": 382114,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "170cb34adf0d8b58387a7a84990fed7e",
            "title": "Boy with rare condition amazes doctors after world-first gene therapy",
            "description": "A three-year-old boy has astounded doctors with his progress after becoming the first person in the world with his devastating disease to receive a ground-breaking gene therapy.",
            "content": "MANCHESTER — A three-year-old boy has astounded doctors with his progress after becoming the first person in the world with his devastating disease to receive a ground-breaking gene therapy.\nOliver Chu has a rare, inherited condition called Hunter sy... [11315 chars]",
            "url": "https://saudigazette.com.sa/article/656820/Life/Health/Boy-with-rare-condition-amazes-doctors-after-world-first-gene-therapy",
            "image": "https://saudigazette.com.sa/uploads/images/2025/11/24/2619688.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-24T08:36:25Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "861094d69eb66a56126a6df4c3b26498",
                "name": "Saudi Gazette",
                "url": "https://saudigazette.com.sa"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "313bcc8a339f2629a16ccd7f63adbf9c",
            "title": "Israel kills Hezbollah chief of staff in Beirut strike",
            "description": "Israel announced it killed Hezbollah's chief of staff Haytham Tabtabai in a strike on Beirut, marking the first Israeli strike in the city since June.",
            "content": "Israel announced on Sunday evening that it had killed Haytham Tabtabai, thought to be Hezbollah's chief of staff, in a strike on the Lebanese capital Beirut.\nThe attack in the southern suburbs killed five people and wounded 25 others, according to lo... [1406 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.euronews.com/2025/11/23/israel-says-to-have-killed-top-hezbollah-official-in-strike-on-beirut",
            "image": "https://images.euronews.com/articles/stories/09/55/84/99/1200x675_cmsv2_d8cfced8-fbac-5612-abd0-97b79f7cafa0-9558499.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-24T08:12:14Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "fe7887ab38dfaf6c0f8af3a124d38295",
                "name": "Euronews.com",
                "url": "https://www.euronews.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "40c2c1fe2e3efe6e5e3744bcb9b5babc",
            "title": "U of M over the moon about satellite’s lunar launch",
            "description": "Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, Canada",
            "content": "A milk-carton sized satellite built by Manitoba researchers will go where no Canadian spacecraft has gone before — the moon’s orbit.\nMagellan Aerospace’s Winnipeg division announced last week it had received a $6.9-million contract from the Canadian ... [2666 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2025/11/24/u-of-m-over-the-moon-about-satellites-lunar-launch",
            "image": "https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/3756680_web1_250325-Telesat-0089.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-24T08:00:11Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "ce16c38b3c43eee5cdb95476a1f8c587",
                "name": "Winnipeg Free Press",
                "url": "https://www.winnipegfreepress.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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