Top Headlines Endpoint

This endpoint allows you to search for current trending articles, the articles that are selected to be returned by this endpoint are based on the Google News ranking. There are 9 categories available, the default category is "general".

HTTP Request

GET https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category=general&apikey=API_KEY

Query Parameters

Parameter Name	Default Value	Description
category	general	This parameter allows you to change the category for the request. The available categories are : general, world, nation, business, technology, entertainment, sports, science and health.
lang	Any	This parameter allows you to specify the language of the news articles returned by the API. You have to set as value the 2 letters code of the language you want to filter. See the list of supported languages.
country	Any	This parameter allows you to specify the country where the news articles returned by the API were published, the contents of the articles are not necessarily related to the specified country. You have to set as value the 2 letters code of the country you want to filter. See the list of supported countries.
max	10	This parameter allows you to specify the number of news articles returned by the API. The minimum value of this parameter is 1 and the maximum value is 100. The value you can set depends on your subscription. See the pricing for more information.
nullable	None	This parameter allows you to specify the attributes that you allow to return null values. The attributes that can be set are description, content and image. It is possible to combine several attributes by separating them with a comma. For example: description,content
from	None	This parameter allows you to filter the articles that have a publication date greater than or equal to the specified value. The date must comply with ISO 8601 format. For example: 2025-07-18T21:32:58.500Z
to	None	This parameter allows you to filter the articles that have a publication date smaller than or equal to the specified value. The date must comply with ISO 8601 format. For example: 2025-07-18T21:32:58.500Z
q	None	This parameter allows you to specify your search keywords to find the news articles you are looking for. The keywords will be used to return the most relevant articles. It is possible to use logical operators with keywords, see the section on query syntax.
page	1	This parameter allows you to control the pagination of the results returned by the API. The paging behavior is closely related to the value of the max parameter. The first page is page 1, then you have to increment by 1 to go to the next page. Let's say that the value of the max parameter is 10, then the first page will contain the first 10 articles returned by the API (articles 1 to 10), page 2 will return the next 10 articles (articles 11 to 20), etc. For performance reasons, it is not possible to paginate more than 1000 articles.
expand	None	This parameter will only work if you have a paid subscription activated on your account. This parameter allows you to return in addition to other data, the full content of the articles. To get the full content of the articles, the parameter must be set to content, as follows expand=content

Code Examples

JavaScript
Python
C#
PHP
Bash

// TODO: replace API_KEY with your API key.
apikey = 'API_KEY';
category = 'general';
url = 'https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category=' + category + '&lang=en&country=us&max=10&apikey=' + apikey;

fetch(url)
  .then(function (response) {
    return response.json();
  })
  .then(function (data) {
    articles = data.articles;

    for (i = 0; i < articles.length; i++) {
      // articles[i].title
      console.log("Title: " + articles[i]['title']);
      // articles[i].description
      console.log("Description: " + articles[i]['description']);
      // You can replace {property} below with any of the article properties returned by the API.
      // articles[i].{property}
      // console.log(articles[i]['{property}']);

      // Delete this line to display all the articles returned by the request. Currently only the first article is displayed.
      break;
    }
  });

# https://docs.python.org/3/library/json.html
# This library will be used to parse the JSON data returned by the API.
import json
# https://docs.python.org/3/library/urllib.request.html#module-urllib.request
# This library will be used to fetch the API.
import urllib.request

# TODO: replace API_KEY with your API key.
apikey = "API_KEY"
category = "general"
url = f"https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category={category}&lang=en&country=us&max=10&apikey={apikey}"

with urllib.request.urlopen(url) as response:
    data = json.loads(response.read().decode("utf-8"))
    articles = data["articles"]

    for i in range(len(articles)):
        # articles[i].title
        print(f"Title: {articles[i]['title']}")
        # articles[i].description
        print(f"Description: {articles[i]['description']}")
        # You can replace {property} below with any of the article properties returned by the API.
        # articles[i].{property}
        # print(f"{articles[i]['{property}']}")

        # Delete this line to display all the articles returned by the request. Currently only the first article is displayed.
        break

// https://www.newtonsoft.com/json
// dotnet add package Newtonsoft.Json
// This library will be used to parse the JSON data returned by the API.
using Newtonsoft.Json;

// TODO: replace API_KEY with your API key.
const string API_KEY = "API_KEY";
const string CATEGORY = "general";
const string URL = $"https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category={CATEGORY}&lang=en&country=us&max=10&apikey={API_KEY}";

HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
HttpResponseMessage response = await client.GetAsync(URL);
response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();
string responseBody = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
var data = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<ApiResponse>(responseBody);
List<Article> articles = data.Articles;

for (int i = 0; i < articles.Count; i++)
{
  // articles[i].title
  Console.WriteLine($"Title: {articles[i].Title}");
  // articles[i].description
  Console.WriteLine($"Description: {articles[i].Description}");
  // You can replace {property} below with any of the article properties returned by the API.
  // articles[i].{property}
  // Console.WriteLine($"{articles[i].{property}}");
  // Note that {property} must be compliant with the definition of class Article.

  // Delete this line to display all the articles returned by the request. Currently only the first article is displayed.
  break;
}

class ApiResponse
{
  public int TotalArticles { get; set; }
  public List<Article> Articles { get; set; } = new List<Article>();
}

class Article
{
  public string Id { get; set; } = "";
  public string Title { get; set; } = "";
  public string Description { get; set; } = "";
  public string Content { get; set; } = "";
  public string Url { get; set; } = "";
  public string Image { get; set; } = "";
  public Source Source { get; set; } = new Source();
}

class Source
{
  public string Id { get; set; } = "";
  public string Name { get; set; } = "";
  public string Url { get; set; } = "";
}

<?php
// TODO: replace API_KEY with your API key.
$apikey = 'API_KEY';
$category = 'general';
$url = "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category=$category&lang=en&country=us&max=10&apikey=$apikey";

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$data = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);
curl_close($ch);
$articles = $data['articles'];

for ($i = 0; $i < count($articles); $i++) {
    // articles[i].title
    echo "Title: " . $articles[$i]['title'] . "\n";
    // articles[i].description
    echo "Description: " . $articles[$i]['description'] . "\n";
    // You can replace {property} below with any of the article properties returned by the API.
    // articles[i].{property}
    // echo $articles[$i]['{property}'] . "\n";

    // Delete this line to display all the articles returned by the request. Currently only the first article is displayed.
    break;
}

# Please note that you must have the package jq: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
#!/bin/bash
# TODO: replace API_KEY with your API key.
apikey='API_KEY'
category='general'
url="https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category=$category&lang=en&country=us&max=10&apikey=$apikey"

data=$(curl -s $url)
articles=$(echo $data | jq '.articles')
articles_length=$(echo $articles | jq length)
echo $articles_length

for ((i = 0; i < $articles_length; i++)); do
  echo $i
  # articles[i].title
  title=$(echo $articles | jq ".[$i].title")
  echo "Title: $title"
  # articles[i].description
  description=$(echo $articles | jq ".[$i].description")
  echo "Description: $description"
  # You can replace {property} below with any of the article properties returned by the API.
  # articles[i].{property}
  # {property}=$(echo $articles | jq ".[$i].{property}")
  # echo "${property}"

  # Delete this line to display all the articles returned by the request. Currently only the first article is displayed.
  break
done

Alternatively, you can use our official libraries available at gnews.io/libraries.

Supported Languages

Name	Value
Arabic	ar
Chinese	zh
Dutch	nl
English	en
French	fr
German	de
Greek	el
Hindi	hi
Italian	it
Japanese	ja
Malayalam	ml
Marathi	mr
Norwegian	no
Portuguese	pt
Romanian	ro
Russian	ru
Spanish	es
Swedish	sv
Tamil	ta
Telugu	te
Ukrainian	uk

Supported Countries

Name	Value
Australia	au
Brazil	br
Canada	ca
China	cn
Egypt	eg
France	fr
Germany	de
Greece	gr
Hong Kong	hk
India	in
Ireland	ie
Italy	it
Japan	jp
Netherlands	nl
Norway	no
Pakistan	pk
Peru	pe
Philippines	ph
Portugal	pt
Romania	ro
Russian Federation	ru
Singapore	sg
Sweden	se
Switzerland	ch
Taiwan	tw
Ukraine	ua
United Kingdom	gb
United States	us

HTTP Request​

Query Parameters​

Code Examples​

Supported Languages​

Supported Countries​

HTTP Request

Query Parameters

Code Examples

Supported Languages

Supported Countries