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United Kingdom News API

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

Get API key for the United Kingdom 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=general&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 417476,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "5d7e2014ffa8b6a3e9ca0fdb6bc16dfa",
            "title": "Transfer news LIVE: Man Utd talks, Villa deal agreed, Spurs boss intervenes",
            "description": "Express Sport brings you all the latest transfer gossip and confirmed deals with the January window open for Premier League clubs.",
            "content": "Transfer news LIVE: Man Utd talks, Aston Villa deal agreed, Spurs boss intervenes\nExpress Sport brings you all the latest transfer gossip and confirmed deals with the January window open for Premier League clubs.\nUnited appointed Michael Carrick as t... [6334 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/2157432/Transfer-news-LIVE-Man-Utd-Liverpool",
            "image": "https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/67/1200x630/6671943.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-14T12:25:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5fee56bcfa73257762a23904b3dd8aeb",
                "name": "Daily Express",
                "url": "https://www.express.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "4a60a9c95424752275a84aa968242b98",
            "title": "Men died in head-on crash on Porthmadog bypass, inquest told",
            "description": "Mathew James Hardy and Daniel Atkinson were travelling in opposite directions when they crashed.",
            "content": "Two mechanics died in a head-on crash days before Christmas, an inquest has heard.\nMathew James Hardy, 34, from Abererch, Pwllheli, and Daniel Atkinson, 40, from Blaenau Ffestiniog, crashed into each other on the A487 Porthmadog bypass on 20 December... [288 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg7y53zm17do",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/2ebd/live/d57b0470-f142-11f0-b695-df518a988f82.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-14T12:22:46Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "daa97e27532337f8fd5c5239b4d70ecb",
            "title": "Images show aftermath of deadly crash on Thai railway line",
            "description": "Latest updates from the BBC's specialists in fact-checking, verifying video and tackling disinformation.",
            "content": "Four dead after postal depot struck in Kharkiv\nSherie Ryder and Fridon Kiria\nBBC Verify and BBC Monitoring\nWe’ve been looking into posts on social media showing the aftermath of a reported Russian strike on a postal depot in the Kharkiv region of Ukr... [4922 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz6yg15lpw9t",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/ba9e/live/ae6b0240-f133-11f0-b385-5f48925de19a.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-14T11:52:51Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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