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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": 448676,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "36b66f9877091b6e3c9ad71e0b06f5ab",
            "title": "UK snow maps show blizzards hitting as far south as Devon in hours - 7 counties hit",
            "description": "Parts of the country could be painted white as a snowy front descends in a matter of hours, with Scotland and the tip of southern England in the firing line.",
            "content": "Parts of the UK could be set for a snowy first week of December, with a patch of western Scotland and southern England set for flurries of up to 2 inches later this week. Forecasts from WXCharts suggest three counties in Scotland and a handful in sou... [1518 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.express.co.uk/news/weather/2141980/uk-weather-maps-show-snow-south-devon-counties",
            "image": "https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/153/1200x630/6591798.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-03T21:53:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5fee56bcfa73257762a23904b3dd8aeb",
                "name": "Daily Express",
                "url": "https://www.express.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "0a9ab188b537fcea5df668ea328618e2",
            "title": "Starmer risks row over plans to delay mayoral elections until 2028",
            "description": "A number of combined authorities will have their polls pushed back by two years.",
            "content": "Labour will postpone four of next year’s mayoral elections until 2028, it has been suggested. Four new combined authorities – Essex, Hampshire and the Solent, Sussex and Brighton, and Norfolk and Suffolk – will have their polls pushed back two years.... [1870 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2142008/keir-starmer-risks-row-labour",
            "image": "https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/139/1200x630/6591801.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-03T21:41:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5fee56bcfa73257762a23904b3dd8aeb",
                "name": "Daily Express",
                "url": "https://www.express.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "f3aa293a0b9d3f7f845394aa1d38b07e",
            "title": "Reform UK investigates social media activity of council leader",
            "description": "Staffordshire County Council leader Ian Cooper is alleged to have made racist comments online.",
            "content": "An investigation has been launched by Reform UK into the social media activity of Staffordshire County Council's leader after it was alleged he made racist comments online.\nActivist group Hope Not Hate claimed to have found racist posts on an account... [910 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crk726m7j73o",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/12ae/live/2cf601c0-d07b-11f0-92b0-9b1b6ce7fb6f.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-03T21:20:11Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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