Latvia Sports News API

Get the live top sports headlines from Latvia 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 Latvia. 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=lv&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=sports" \
  --data-urlencode "country=lv" \
  --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": "lv", "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: "lv",
    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"  => "lv",
    "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=lv&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": 90882,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "862f5948e93456a5f63c47a075aa95e2",
            "title": "Pietuszewski becomes youngest Polish Champions League debutant",
            "description": "Oskar Pietuszewski became the youngest Polish debutant in Champions League history at 18 years, four months and 24 days old in Porto’s match against Real Betis.",
            "content": "Polish footballer Oskar Pietuszewski set a record on his Champions League debut. In the Real Betis vs. Porto match at La Cartuja Stadium, he became the youngest Polish debutant in the tournament’s history. At the time of his first match in the compet... [869 chars]",
            "url": "https://ua.news/en/sport/pietushevskii-stav-naimolodshim-pols-kim-debiutantom-ligi-chempioniv-interia-sport",
            "image": "https://cdn-cabinet.ua.news/uploads/images/pietuszewski_naimolodshyi_polskyi_debiut_1792018546433.webp",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T23:06:45Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "54b33233e9f0f396fe0c9e0f95f2a6f6",
                "name": "UA.NEWS",
                "url": "https://ua.news"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "e5c91ec66d2bbe59f857fd3f49e5b971",
            "title": "Haaland becomes Man City’s leading Champions League goalscorer",
            "description": "Erling Haaland continues to break records, becoming Manchester City’s all-time leading goalscorer in the Champions League on Wednesday.The Norwegian achieved the milestone with a brace in City’s 4...",
            "content": "Erling Haaland continues to break records, becoming Manchester City's all-time leading goalscorer in the Champions League on Wednesday.\nThe Norwegian achieved the milestone with a brace in City's 4-2 defeat to PSG, moving ahead of club legend Sergio ... [1482 chars]",
            "url": "https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/haaland-becomes-man-city-leading-221800076.html",
            "image": "https://s.yimg.com/lo/mysterio/api/acfbe5f2a184dcb8bd0b175d0799fa79f132c7cbc463795ad3bb9e35b0170add/lightyear_networkapi/resizefill_w1200_h675%3Bquality_80%3Bformat_webp/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fplaymakerstats_articles_264%2Fbc7b07302cf94d423d03b260b4bacbd1.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T22:18:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "1213ab3f5e360256b89d3b205e3e8e48",
                "name": "Yahoo Sports",
                "url": "https://sports.yahoo.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "5f0c1f9dafe3cbd4eae6ec36e55b2d06",
            "title": "Aston Villa 6-0 Fenerbahce: What Johan Mazambi and Nicolas Jackson said",
            "description": "Aston Villa 6-0 Fenerbahce: What Johan Mazambi and Nicolas Jackson said",
            "content": "Aston Villa midfielder Johan Manzambi spoke to TNT Sports after victory against Fenerbahce: \"Today was very good. We scored six goals and no goals conceded. That's very nice. For the fans it's amazing.\n\"Very happy. My first Champions League game and ... [704 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cmkgk4r785p3o",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_sport/1200/cpsprodpb/e86d/live/55fc4940-c81d-11f1-ba52-6f55b182b2fe.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T21:48:26Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f331a5ed3965fb59761dfcecfc7e7a34",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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