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": 563608,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "f055dc462029e6356ef2f8b4984a3f58",
            "title": "Chilling moment brazen balaclava-clad gunman aims handgun at bystander",
            "description": "The video has come to light following an investigation into a number of escalating incidents in the Toxteth area",
            "content": "The video has come to light following an investigation into a number of escalating incidents in the Toxteth area\nThe chilling moment an electric bike-riding gunman clad in a balaclava aims a handgun at a bystander can be revealed. The footage, shared... [5611 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/chilling-moment-brazen-balaclava-clad-34183891",
            "image": "https://i2-prod.liverpoolecho.co.uk/article34184523.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200d/0_BHR_LEC_250626_GUNMAN.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-28T03:03:54Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "1aa6f0dbd00b7d9acf000f0ae47eaa40",
                "name": "Liverpool Echo",
                "url": "https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "2a00d0feabbe5555cb79065e4768ecb8",
            "title": "Newspaper headlines: 'Devolution revolution' and 'The cost of cool'",
            "description": "Andy Burnham's economic policy speech next week and the record heatwave dominate Sunday's papers.",
            "content": "Andy Burnham - and what he might do as prime minister - features heavily in most of Sunday's papers. According to the Observer, external, he is \"actively considering\" a return to frontline politics for David Miliband, who was foreign secretary under ... [1806 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7vymj03drno",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/fc66/live/5133ec90-727a-11f1-8546-8f19e4fe30f4.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-28T01:07:34Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "0954e7faba2b310699cf1aa39933975d",
            "title": "How Andy Burnham's school teacher inspired him to believe in himself",
            "description": "Steve Harrington says he had to convince the front-runner for Labour leader into going to Cambridge University.",
            "content": "\"He needed a lot of persuading to apply because he felt that as a working-class boy, going off to Cambridge wasn't for him. He didn't believe in himself, but he did it, and the rest is history.\"\nThese are the words of former English teacher Stephen H... [6319 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2eymr3xrewo",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/cea2/live/15478950-723c-11f1-930d-75324f3b4c6e.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-28T01:00:45Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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