United Kingdom Nation News API

Get the live top nation headlines from United Kingdom with our JSON API.

Get API key for the United Kingdom Nation 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 United Kingdom.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=gb&category=nation&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 498572,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "136575a5cf36e25e35f487d200c94a44",
            "title": "Tax-break trees: how woodland became a store of wealth for the rich",
            "description": "Attempt to turn a stretch of the English-Scottish border into a commercial forest exposes threat to habitats from wealthy investors",
            "content": "On the English-Scottish border a small species of butterfly, the northern brown argus, has fended off one of the biggest investors in the UK.\nTodrig, with its heath moorlands and hundreds of species of flora and fauna, represents an investment that c... [10201 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jun/07/butterfly-blocking-tax-break-tree-scheme-wealthy-investors",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0cd73d0c3554bdc625edc6d8aa4b1a1e6ba5cb6d/26_23_4464_3574/master/4464.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=cbff1b27f71a8178e19e4a3e24035eac",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-07T11:13:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "4e796bf02ad3625e7a8122027e7ca675",
            "title": "Brexit ‘sabotage’ has cost Britain up to £30bn every year, says David Miliband",
            "description": "Exclusive: ‘We are suffering a punishing Brexit tax every day,’ says former foreign secretary in withering assessment of decision to leave the bloc",
            "content": "Brexit was an act of “sabotage” that has made Britain up to £30bn a year worse off, former foreign secretary David Miliband claims.\nHe says the loss of income caused by leaving the EU is equivalent to imposing “a punishing tax every day” on the UK.\nW... [4321 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-cost-eu-uk-david-miliband-b2979506.html",
            "image": "https://static.independent.co.uk/2026/06/04/18/20/4tsehrdygmfds.jpeg?trim=0,0,0,0&width=1200&height=800&crop=1200:800",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-07T10:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0d5c0adfb0e84da759fe48296b9f6e55",
                "name": "The Independent",
                "url": "https://www.independent.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "ebf8ff500a735e3b7eb3c4767df3c599",
            "title": "David Lammy says he told JD Vance his Henry Nowak comments were 'wrong'",
            "description": "Vance had blamed Henry Nowak's death on the \"mass invasion of migrants\" - but Lammy says it \"has got nothing to do with mass migration\".",
            "content": "Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy has said he called US Vice-President JD Vance to tell him he was \"wrong\" in the comments he made about the murder of teenager Henry Nowak.\nVance blamed the death of the 18-year-old British student, who was fatally st... [3728 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjwg387040wo",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/47da/live/dd7a6570-625e-11f1-8b8c-6d33e1d5abb6.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-07T09:51:40Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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