Singapore News API

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

Get API key for the Singapore 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 Singapore.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=sg&category=general&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 161144,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "38f5d41ee1233cc5911573518831e08f",
            "title": "Singapore kitefoiler Max Maeder reclaims world championships title",
            "description": "This is Max Maeder’s third world title.",
            "content": "SINGAPORE: Singapore star kitefoiler Maximilian Maeder clinched his third world title on Saturday (May 16) after winning the Formula Kite World Championships in Viana do Castelo in Portugal.\nThe world's top-ranked kitefoiler finished ahead of Switzer... [942 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.channelnewsasia.com/sport/formula-kite-world-championship-max-maeder-team-singapore-6125836",
            "image": "https://dam.mediacorp.sg/image/upload/s--3cU1r4PB--/c_crop,h_899,w_1599,x_1,y_167/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200/f_auto,q_auto/v1/mediacorp/cna/image/2025/12/16/max_maeder_1.jpeg?itok=n59zcJLl",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-16T14:59:41Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "08538e21f9ef4fd994fa94c90374f079",
                "name": "CNA",
                "url": "https://www.channelnewsasia.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "2060babacb401206e286d3a3865fa448",
            "title": "Police obtain footage of fake Zoom meeting in scam impersonating PM Wong",
            "description": "One victim lost at least S$4.9 million (US$3.8 million) in what was purportedly funding assistance related to the Strait of Hormuz.",
            "content": "SINGAPORE: The Singapore Police Force has obtained footage of the AI-generated Zoom video conference that was part of a scam involving the impersonation of senior government officials, including Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, it said on Saturday (May ... [3045 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/impersonation-scam-fake-zoom-meeting-footage-lawrence-wong-tharman-indranee-police-6125691",
            "image": "https://dam.mediacorp.sg/image/upload/s--8f1O7-0o--/c_crop,h_628,w_1118,x_41,y_-1/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200/f_auto,q_auto/v1/mediacorp/cna/image/2026/05/16/screenshot_2026-05-16_210515.png?itok=rgP5alL1",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-16T14:52:09Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "08538e21f9ef4fd994fa94c90374f079",
                "name": "CNA",
                "url": "https://www.channelnewsasia.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "266fff8496ed64804b7f6adc218e3092",
            "title": "Chemistry of Universe's First Stars",
            "description": "A tiny galaxy observed just 800 million years after the Big Bang has yielded the strongest observational evidence yet that the universe’s first generation of stars — long theorised but never directly",
            "content": "A tiny galaxy observed just 800 million years after the Big Bang has yielded the strongest observational evidence yet that the universe's first generation of stars — long theorised but never directly detected — existed, burned briefly, and left their... [9737 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.techtimes.com/articles/316725/20260516/jwst-identifies-lap1-b-most-chemically-primitive-galaxy-record-chemistry-universes-first-stars.htm",
            "image": "https://d.techtimes.com/en/full/464937/near-infrared-spectrograph-nirspec-was-able-detect-chemical-signatures.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-16T14:15:42Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "9c3a8a9615df42e1f5d4d0bccc731a46",
                "name": "Tech Times",
                "url": "https://www.techtimes.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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