Ethiopia Sports News API

Get the live top sports headlines from Ethiopia with one request to the Top Headlines endpoint of GNews API. Stories are selected by Google News rankings and returned as clean JSON.

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This request returns the current top sports headlines from Ethiopia. The response below is live: it was fetched when this page loaded. Every parameter is described in the Top Headlines endpoint documentation.

GET https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category=sports&country=et&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=sports" \
  --data-urlencode "country=et" \
  --data-urlencode "apikey=YOUR_API_KEY"

import requests

API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY"

response = requests.get(
    "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines",
    params={"category": "sports", "country": "et", "apikey": API_KEY},
    timeout=10,
)
response.raise_for_status()

for article in response.json()["articles"]:
    print(article["title"])

const API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY";

const params = new URLSearchParams({
    category: "sports",
    country: "et",
    apikey: API_KEY,
});

const response = await fetch(`https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?${params}`);
if (!response.ok) {
    throw new Error(`Request failed: ${response.status}`);
}

const { articles } = await response.json();
for (const article of articles) {
    console.log(article.title);
}

<?php

$apiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

$query = http_build_query([
    "category" => "sports",
    "country"  => "et",
    "apikey"   => $apiKey,
]);

$response = file_get_contents("https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?" . $query);
if ($response === false) {
    throw new RuntimeException("Request failed");
}

$data = json_decode($response, true);
foreach ($data["articles"] as $article) {
    echo $article["title"] . PHP_EOL;
}

using System.Net.Http.Json;

const string ApiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

using var client = new HttpClient();

var url = $"https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category=sports&country=et&apikey={ApiKey}";
var data = await client.GetFromJsonAsync<ApiResponse>(url)
           ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("Empty response");

foreach (var article in data.Articles)
{
    Console.WriteLine(article.Title);
}

record ApiResponse(List<Article> Articles);
record Article(string Title);

200 OK · Live JSON response

{
    "totalArticles": 31192,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "cdd0aba484465074cde935b1841a1b98",
            "title": "NBA Fantasy: Preseason standouts with High Score upside",
            "description": "Five players have stood out in NBA preseason thus far, and could make a major impact in your High Score lineup heading into fantasy basketball season.",
            "content": "Play Yahoo Fantasy High Score Today!\nThe NBA preseason has provided some breakout players making a final push to land a roster spot or prominent place in a team’s rotation. As fans gear up for fantasy basketball season, some of these names could end ... [2872 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nba.com/news/nba-fantasy-preseason-standouts-with-high-score-upside",
            "image": "https://cdn.nba.com/manage/2026/10/GettyImages-2299388392-scaled-e1792003853525.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T23:20:52Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "51615c5a3110b6568c3cd6f1dae8903b",
                "name": "NBA.com",
                "url": "https://www.nba.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "1745cc0621a5e4cccb6999e8bb5f901b",
            "title": "Mourinho blasts 'shameless' timing of Vinicius ban decision",
            "description": "Jose Mourinho hit out at the \"shameless\" decision by Spanish football authorities to announce that Real Madrid winger Vinicius Junior had been slapped with a four-match ban just hours before their Champions…",
            "content": "The Brazil international was handed the punishment on Wednesday after being sent off during Saturday's 1-0 La Liga win over Villarreal for pulling the hair of an opponent.\nIt is a costly ban, depriving Mourinho of one of his star attackers for an imp... [2977 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20261014-mourinho-blasts-shameless-timing-of-vinicius-ban-decision",
            "image": "https://s.france24.com/media/display/7f27d95c-c821-11f1-a6e2-2d1c143cdef3/w:1280/p:16x9/33385933a00b757121c985dcc3f47bc86e706b69.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T22:49:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f501fcfec9884d330bc84a73998805a5",
                "name": "France 24",
                "url": "https://www.france24.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "d635373fda340760a79826283b276b8d",
            "title": "‘Ridiculous’ - José Mourinho critical of Real Madrid stars despite win over Roma",
            "description": "Real Madrid head coach José Mourinho made clear that he was far from satisfied, despite his side’s comeback victory over AS Roma on Wednesday.Specifically, the Portuguese was left angered by Los Bl...",
            "content": "Real Madrid head coach José Mourinho made clear that he was far from satisfied, despite his side's comeback victory over AS Roma on Wednesday.\nSpecifically, the Portuguese was left angered by Los Blancos' collective defensive efforts.\nAdvertisement\nR... [851 chars]",
            "url": "https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/ridiculous-jos-mourinho-critical-real-220000202.html",
            "image": "https://s.yimg.com/lo/mysterio/api/b9ece0eb98d5ca6bef135a9af17718722e03df70994be3cc863bff37f6e10341/lightyear_networkapi/resizefill_w1200_h675%3Bquality_80%3Bformat_webp/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fget_spanish_football_news_articles_403%2Fb5063e75fc17ffb3cf4c1d43537003b4.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T22:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "1213ab3f5e360256b89d3b205e3e8e48",
                "name": "Yahoo Sports",
                "url": "https://sports.yahoo.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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