Finland Sports News API

Get the live top sports headlines from Finland with one request to the Top Headlines endpoint of GNews API. Headlines are based on Google News rankings and returned as JSON.

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Request and live response

This request returns the current top sports headlines from Finland. 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=fi&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=sports" \
  --data-urlencode "country=fi" \
  --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": "fi", "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: "fi",
    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);
}

On the Free plan, browsers can only call the API from localhost: see Using the API in the FAQ.

<?php

$apiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

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

$response = file_get_contents("https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?" . $params);
if ($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=fi&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": 81766,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "375c3b456f4c524b2cbe8104495bd00f",
            "title": "Kanadan pääministeri: Venäjä ei pelaan nuorten MM-kisoissa Kanadassa",
            "description": "Kanada otti tiukan kannan Venäjän pelaamiseen nuorten MM-kisoissa.",
            "content": "Philadelphia\nKanadan pääministeri Mark Carney ilmoitti tiistaina, ettei Venäjä saa osallistua vuodenvaihteessa Edmontonissa ja Red Deerissä järjestettäviin alle 20-vuotiaiden MM-kisoihin.\n– Niin kauan kuin Venäjä ja Valko-Venäjä tukevat tätä laitonta... [2012 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.is.fi/nhl/art-2000012386826.html",
            "image": "https://images.sanoma-sndp.fi/9b83a5f36e32be1483861984866e0abf/some/is-default.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T23:57:00Z",
            "lang": "fi",
            "source": {
                "id": "dc6f5c9196f0edd195331bc5b2314e89",
                "name": "Ilta-Sanomat",
                "url": "https://www.is.fi"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "2f7da3c63c596c62acf60bca4fe1c809",
            "title": "Lamine Yamal teki historiaa Mestarien liigassa",
            "description": "Mestarien liigassa tehtailtiin melkoisesti maaleja tiistain kierroksella.",
            "content": "Barcelonan ja Espanjan maajoukkueen teinitähti Lamine Yamal teki jalkapallon Mestarien liigan historiaa tiistaina.\nYamal, 19, iski ottelun avausmaalin, kun Barcelona isännöi englantilaista Aston Villaa.\nMaalia edelsi Aston Villan karmea virhe maalipo... [2286 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.hs.fi/urheilu/art-2000012386822.html",
            "image": "https://images.sanoma-sndp.fi/7527d89b6411d19ae5ebde8d7784d636/some/hs-default.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T22:05:00Z",
            "lang": "fi",
            "source": {
                "id": "07b283984c8a8338fdd582adff1826f1",
                "name": "HS.fi",
                "url": "https://www.hs.fi"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "a2c40cf77591e2629cfd879972e1134b",
            "title": "Manchester United voitti pitkästä aikaa",
            "description": "Manchester United katkaisi pitkän voitottoman putkensa noustuaan AS Romaa vastaan 3–2-voittoon.",
            "content": "Manchester United nousi kuin nousikin – ja voitti lähes kahden kuukauden tauon jälkeen.\nManchester United oli edellisen kerran voittanut ottelun lähes kaksi kuukautta sitten. Se löi 10. syyskuuta jalkapallon Mestarien liiga -kauden avauksessaan azerb... [3245 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.mtvuutiset.fi/artikkeli/hammentavaa-manchester-united-mista-tama-tuli/9416016",
            "image": "https://api.mtvuutiset.fi/graphql/caas/v1/media/share/9416030/1d74617d993419eddc569af76816b6f2/matheus-cunha.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T21:56:24Z",
            "lang": "fi",
            "source": {
                "id": "d85246619c19c25ab6a96cb2ca4db649",
                "name": "mtvuutiset.fi",
                "url": "https://www.mtvuutiset.fi"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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