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New Zealand Health News API

Get the live top health headlines from New Zealand 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 New Zealand.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=nz&category=health&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 3052,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "2c10a4997d4d5aac2e2ceab1e9971290",
            "title": "Alcohol and breast cancer link explained as survivor shares why she went sober",
            "description": "Five years ago, Kate Twigg wouldn’t have called herself “a big drinker”. But she wasn’t someone who could have just a couple of drinks without planning...",
            "content": "“Our parents drank like that and then we did too ... we used to drink to get drunk.”\nThe wake-up call came in the form of a triple negative breast cancer diagnosis in 2021. Twigg’s first thought, she told the Herald last year, was that she wasn’t goi... [4428 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/alcohol-and-breast-cancer-link-explained-as-survivor-shares-why-she-went-sober/N3G67MBNZRDP3CB7A36325I36E/",
            "image": "https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/CFWYIZF36VCO3NNGIISMVKTLUI.jpg?auth=e5b8866b0e2475a743329108caa4c14f566594f8b1335802f2a5f0812f1e37e3&width=1200&height=675&quality=70&focal=971%2C378&smart=false",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-06T20:14:19Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "a086bc2011f6ea09f34f87b9ef0a588b",
                "name": "NZ Herald",
                "url": "https://www.nzherald.co.nz"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "673db7cfecb0fd0ea940b3bd6cfa2a2d",
            "title": "Solitary Screen Time Can Increase Some Childhood Struggles, Study Shows",
            "description": "Here's why solo screen time can have a negative effect on kids who are experiencing language delays -- and how you can help them.",
            "content": "Parenting in the digital age means making a never-ending string of decisions about what screens and content to allow your child to access, and how much of it. We all know that too much screen time is harmful, that access to the wrong types of content... [5809 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/solitary-screen-time-increase-childhood-194413276.html",
            "image": "https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/btKGQ3X9U3_TctcNwx2IyQ--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyMDA7aD03OTc7Y2Y9d2VicA--/https://media.zenfs.com/en/parenting_patch_articles_990/0c4945267628fd8e7ea9a123ca35eada",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-06T19:44:13Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "99e8a2cb4638bb798cf9167e5af5b83b",
                "name": "Yahoo",
                "url": "https://www.yahoo.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "0429aebd13d7c703ae3db3ce19d94395",
            "title": "STIs less common than thought during gold rush",
            "description": "Popular fiction about the Otago gold rush era would have you believe sexually transmitted infections (STIs) were rife among the gold fields’...",
            "content": "Popular fiction about the Otago gold rush era would have you believe sexually transmitted infections (STIs) were rife among the gold fields’ populations.\nYet a first-of-its-kind study by the University of Otago has found STIs were less common than po... [2958 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/campus/stis-less-common-thought-during-gold-rush",
            "image": "https://www.odt.co.nz/sites/default/files/styles/odt_story_opengraph_1200w/public/story/2026/04/clyde_1870s.jpg?itok=VMGZN6PJ",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-06T17:30:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "9371f7f51fd8f7252ed1d882285f716a",
                "name": "Otago Daily Times",
                "url": "https://www.odt.co.nz"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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