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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": 499438,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "d0fcc198b7b0b0f75ef1d66c6a80c9d8",
            "title": "Labour must cease taking progressive voters for granted, says Sadiq Khan",
            "description": "London mayor criticises PM for calling Greens ‘extreme’ after Gorton and Denton loss, saying it is a ‘flawed strategy’",
            "content": "The mayor of London has said the Gorton and Denton byelection has exposed a “far-reaching change and fracturing” in UK politics and Labour must ditch its “flawed strategy” of taking liberal progressives for granted.\nIn what appears to be an attack on... [4097 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/01/labour-must-cease-taking-progressive-voters-for-granted-says-sadiq-khan",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/57963fed73898779153892bd8b636b967f76c0b4/184_0_5931_4747/master/5931.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=94e36766789b549acb1bc9cb8dc3ebbe",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-01T06:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "d949c46b102122edbf123f0e96b1fcb1",
            "title": "Trump's bet on Iranian regime change could be his biggest gamble yet",
            "description": "The US president may be forced to wage a political battle at home while presiding over a new war in the Middle East.",
            "content": "In attacking Iran and killing the regime's supreme leader, US President Donald Trump has made an enormous bet: that he can succeed where past presidents have failed by using American military force to reshape the Middle East.\nTrump will claim a gener... [7753 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn48dwm818no",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/ceb5/live/3c75b060-150d-11f1-a98b-e37c58be6ae9.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-01T02:22:32Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "202ee699a52a9cf81e722f2db3eeeaf6",
            "title": "This year’s Brit awards found a flicker of chaos - but the winners were never in doubt",
            "description": "A Manchester move, Shaun Ryder’s bleeped-out anecdote and the odd leftfield flourish added some life to a slick ceremony – yet when it came to the prizes, commercial heavyweights tended to reign",
            "content": "The Brit awards have perhaps borrowed a trick from the Mercury prize, which last year unexpectedly applied the defibrillator to an event that’s been on the verge of extinction for years by the simple expedient of moving it to Newcastle and packing th... [3934 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/mar/01/this-years-brit-awards-found-a-flicker-of-chaos-but-the-winners-were-never-in-doubt",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/3badf7997f2bc928afae8f697406988fa2d7f14d/554_273_3737_2990/master/3737.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=503d59a0de47b6a8c1e14f8fb88698e1",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-01T01:49:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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