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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": 472802,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "495bb3af875ddaa1aeff35367b6a123b",
            "title": "Plymouth Argyle 5-2 Cardiff City: Pilgrims beat leaders in thriller",
            "description": "Plymouth Argyle earn a third straight win as they inflict a first defeat of 2026 on League One leaders Cardiff City in a pulsating contest.",
            "content": "Plymouth Argyle continued their resurgence with a third successive win as they inflicted a first defeat of 2026 on League One leaders Cardiff City in a pulsating contest at Home Park.\nArgyle scored three of the four goals in an astonishing six-minute... [2976 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/live/cm28n4kmgwrt",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_sport/1200/cpsprodpb/eff5/live/26ac6d70-0f2f-11f1-b048-c9424b2cf5fd.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-21T14:33:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "5c4ed17558419698c09efa9b5783fae8",
            "title": "West Bromwich Albion 0-2 Coventry City: Sky Blues stretch lead at top",
            "description": "Championship leaders Coventry City ease to victory at West Bromwich Albion as Baggies boss Eric Ramsay still searches for first win.",
            "content": "Coventry City made it back-to-back wins to strengthen their promotion hopes and push West Bromwich Albion deeper into relegation trouble.\nFrank Lampard's Championship leaders picked up where they left off in Monday's 3-1 win over second-placed Middle... [1513 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/live/c9wnp8grvn4t",
            "image": "https://static.files.bbci.co.uk/core/website/assets/static/sport/images/metadata/poster-1024x576.146fae5646.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-21T14:29:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "e729a0e66477dd6ea074541d0d7a94a7",
            "title": "League One & Two LIVE: Plymouth Argyle v Cardiff City, Fleetwood Town v Barrow and more",
            "description": "Follow for live scores and updates from Plymouth Argyle v Cardiff City, Fleetwood Town v Barrow and other games League One & Two.",
            "content": "Post\nBolton 0-0 Blackpool\nBlackpool goalkeeper Bailey Peacock-Farrell is tested now.\nHe does well to keep out a Chris Forino header from close range.\nBolton are knocking quite hard on the door.\nPost\nHarrogate 0-0 Bromley\nHarrogate are unbeaten in the... [4086 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/live/cz7yvv0d707t",
            "image": "https://static.files.bbci.co.uk/core/website/assets/static/sport/images/metadata/poster-1024x576.146fae5646.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-21T14:21:14Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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