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": 559164,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "8fd9188ab6f97d8f6bfe806baa9f8f23",
            "title": "Farage breaks cover at last but finds the £5m question hasn’t gone away",
            "description": "A testy Reform UK leader tried to bat off questions about why a gigantic gift to him had anything to do with the public",
            "content": "Happy days. Ten glorious years. Maybe it was the chance to bask in the unmitigated triumphs of the UK’s decision to leave the EU. Maybe he wanted to take advantage of a rare lacuna. The vacuum between the last rites of the Keir Starmer government and... [5856 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/23/farage-breaks-cover-5m-pound-question-gift-reform-uk",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/275d15b3b64a824517c9bfb309fd7ee7435b76a9/382_0_3928_3143/master/3928.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=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctb3BpbmlvbnMucG5n&enable=upscale&s=e4fd11f556f244c88ae9e3446f22b1ea",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-23T19:48:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "53e7bd1fe3b35a0e674c297cbeebc8ec",
            "title": "Burnham: I’ll boost spending on defence",
            "description": "Prime minister-in-waiting says he will find more money for the Armed Forces than Starmer",
            "content": "Andy Burnham has told allies he plans to spend more on defence than Sir Keir Starmer.\nThe former mayor of Manchester has met Labour MPs and reassured them he wants to give the Ministry of Defence (MoD) more than the £13.5bn offered in the defence inv... [5082 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/06/23/andy-burnham-to-boost-spending-on-defence/",
            "image": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/politics/2026/06/23/TELEMMGLPICT000490831684_17822416377050_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqsX7lDi76tD85-fiYF7F898RpMj0_IJhv0hwqeAF0G_A.jpeg?impolicy=OG-Standard",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-23T19:28:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0fc579b3cc7a823fd67a74b9ed6f0796",
                "name": "The Telegraph",
                "url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "36600afaa9b290f08974df5bb8d69380",
            "title": "Burnham and Starmer hold ‘frosty’ meeting to thrash out transition of power",
            "description": "With Burnham and his team potentially having only weeks before he becomes PM, Starmer has agreed to give him access to civil service",
            "content": "Keir Starmer has met Andy Burnham for the first time since the Makerfield byelection in what sources said was a “frosty” meeting to thrash out a transition of power.\nThe prime minister has agreed for his likely successor to have talks with the civil ... [4629 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/23/burnham-and-starmer-hold-frosty-meeting-to-thrash-out-transition-of-power",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/237144a6371cf04ab8cb9aaf8aa63d17ee3328cb/0_0_5000_4000/master/5000.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=28cdec0aa6409a1a8ae9eb93ef27b40a",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-23T18:41:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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