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": 559206,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "c0ea4e24adce4e68809a2591dc582e1b",
            "title": "Scottish Tories win first Westminster by-election in more than 50 years",
            "description": "The Tories take Aberdeen South, while the SNP wins in Arbroath and Broughty Ferry.",
            "content": "The Scottish Conservatives have won a Westminster by-election for the first time in more than 50 years, taking Aberdeen South from the SNP.\nThe seat, vacated by the SNP's Stephen Flynn, was won by Tory MSP Douglas Lumsden.\nShortly afterwards SNP clai... [1541 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpv3kk3nlj1o",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/d58f/live/bce6ffb0-6b7f-11f1-8546-8f19e4fe30f4.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-19T01:28:46Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "2597dd28dff7fa4182c588d7d7c2d87e",
            "title": "Scottish Conservatives win Aberdeen South, ousting SNP",
            "description": "Byelection loss suggests voters rebelled against SNP over Peter Murrell’s theft of £400,000 in party funds",
            "content": "The Scottish National party (SNP) has lost the formerly safe seat of Aberdeen South in a shock loss to the Scottish Conservatives.\nThe Scottish Conservatives’ Douglas Lumsden beat the SNP’s Richard Thomson by 6,050 votes, with a 14.69% swing away fro... [1408 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/19/snp-concedes-aberdeen-south-with-scottish-conservatives-set-to-win",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/fd799b715dc2493ba9f71c1edf5960c195eae292/456_464_3120_2496/master/3120.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=19fec072e5bc1c5ad252b5e9aa18e64a",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-19T00:23:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "fd6490d35b7453acdc7255918ba0c593",
            "title": "The pressure on the Church of England to ditch its slavery reparations plan",
            "description": "Will the Church's commitments still be delivered, or do shifting political winds mean there is no longer the will to do so?",
            "content": "The soaring, light-filled quire in Rochester Cathedral has witnessed centuries of worship. But beneath where the cathedral's singers sit, its timeworn paving stones lies a dark financial legacy.\nHidden in an archive until just a few years ago, were s... [11606 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yz43n9513o",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/7243/live/ae74c6e0-6af0-11f1-8e1d-bbbb1017d210.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-18T23:35:54Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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