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Canada Science News API

Get the live top science headlines from Canada 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 Canada.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=ca&category=science&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 130278,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "1aa8ce5417d07186ee7549a43495abed",
            "title": "How to watch one of the year's best meteor showers, the Geminids",
            "description": "NEW YORK (AP) — It's time for one of the strongest meteor showers of the year.",
            "content": "NEW YORK (AP) — It's time for one of the strongest meteor showers of the year.\nThe Geminids peak this weekend and are visible through mid-December, according to the American Meteor Society. The meteors tend to be yellow in color and can be seen acros... [2025 chars]",
            "url": "https://ca.news.yahoo.com/watch-one-years-best-meteor-140725238.html",
            "image": "https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/9ZSsvD4mTHW.M8C_7Kjspw--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyMDA7aD04MTE7Y2Y9d2VicA--/https://media.zenfs.com/en/cp_news_842/ae05a6185c5dcb7fbc3f8cc593745cf0",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-09T14:07:25Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "a2b63f17a2f88eb6115cf6b743dcd1e5",
                "name": "Yahoo News Canada",
                "url": "https://ca.news.yahoo.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "79a83ed46b61cc27a821f46acb997bfc",
            "title": "Lower-cost space missions like NASA’s ESCAPADE are starting to deliver exciting science - but at a price in risk and trade‑offs",
            "description": "What’s better – many small space missions, or a few large, sweeping ones? Space scientists are asking this question as they face budget uncertainties.",
            "content": "After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission has finally begun its roundabout journey to Mars.\nLaunched on Nov. 13, 2025, aboard Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket, ESCAPADE’s tw... [9464 chars]",
            "url": "https://ca.news.yahoo.com/lower-cost-space-missions-nasa-140421825.html",
            "image": "https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_conversation_us_articles_815/a4fdb9bb02c3e9172d92af29a0542488",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-09T14:04:21Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "a2b63f17a2f88eb6115cf6b743dcd1e5",
                "name": "Yahoo News Canada",
                "url": "https://ca.news.yahoo.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "1d5bc82ecceff89247c797724858cb88",
            "title": "Chance Encounter Prompts U of G Discovery About Reindeer",
            "description": "Part of a research team measuring the health of a woodland caribou herd on Fogo Island in Newfoundland, the University of Guelph PhD student…",
            "content": "It was a fleeting glimpse but what caught Allegra Love’s eye gave her pause. Could it be?\nPart of a research team measuring the health of a woodland caribou herd on Fogo Island in Newfoundland, the University of Guelph PhD student peered through bino... [4538 chars]",
            "url": "https://news.uoguelph.ca/2025/12/chance-encounter-leads-u-of-g-researchers-to-new-discovery-about-fogo-island-caribou/",
            "image": "https://news.uoguelph.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/cropped-UofG-Caribou-Research-Fogo-Island-Credit-Emily-Monk.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-09T13:55:46Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0374c2a0bf20c914d7d3ff2292ddda07",
                "name": "U of G News",
                "url": "https://news.uoguelph.ca"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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