New Zealand Sports News API

Get the live top sports headlines from New Zealand 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 New Zealand. 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=nz&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=sports" \
  --data-urlencode "country=nz" \
  --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": "nz", "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: "nz",
    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"  => "nz",
    "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=nz&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": 42602,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "1109d1caee1f9ad865d5b0e3ecd0a47e",
            "title": "All Blacks team naming: Dave Rennie selects side to face Wallabies in Sydney",
            "description": "Live updates as Dave Rennie names his All Blacks squad to face the Wallabies in Sydney on Saturday. Beauden Barrett accepted the challenge. Running out on to...",
            "content": "Live updates as Dave Rennie names his All Blacks squad to face the Wallabies in Sydney on Saturday.\nThe mental challenge faced by All Black Beauden Barrett\nBeauden Barrett accepted the challenge.\nRunning out on to the turf against the Wallabies at Ed... [4129 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/rugby/all-blacks/all-blacks-team-naming-dave-rennie-selects-side-to-face-wallabies-in-sydney/X4QB7CPFT5GPBGARPW2AQGNSGM/",
            "image": "https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/L5XMWCS3EJB3RB3KBYJ6B5YHPQ.jpg?auth=444c8717ce246363e2c4589bdcb0bbb94b2c9776c62845f8363c0ce2821ba80a&width=1200&height=675&quality=70&focal=998%2C555&smart=false",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-15T00:04:55Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "a086bc2011f6ea09f34f87b9ef0a588b",
                "name": "NZ Herald",
                "url": "https://www.nzherald.co.nz"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "09180f023b548b6be983b357e3d98be1",
            "title": "Skaife shreds Team 18’s ‘unforgivable’ Bathurst fuel bungle",
            "description": "Mark Skaife says Team 18 should not have relied on its software alone to determine how much fuel Anton De Pasquale’s Chevrolet Camaro needed to make it to the chequered flag. - Speedcafe.com",
            "content": "De Pasquale and co-driver Lee Holdsworth were cruelly denied victory in Sunday’s Great Race by an under-filled tank.\nWith less than a lap to go the car slowed approaching Griffins Bend and allowed Brodie Kostecki to snatch victory with Dick Johnson R... [2925 chars]",
            "url": "https://speedcafe.com/supercars-news-2026-bathurst-1000-mark-skaife-analysis-team-18-fuel-blunder-explained-comments-reaction/",
            "image": "https://imagedelivery.net/ZGhUbEWLMVE6yP9n9tDpng/fe0639e5-5aca-489c-4f8e-ffe0edf15b00/public",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T23:40:27Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "dfb01b7ae62a6f60563388cd18710b92",
                "name": "Speedcafe.com",
                "url": "https://speedcafe.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "a8b75f346a9b81cf54c28ae25ade3a8a",
            "title": "Luckless job hunter Karina Atkins who applied for 300 jobs lands role after year",
            "description": "Jobhunter Karina Atkins, who has finally found work after applying for 331 roles in just over a year, says the process “wasn’t easy” but taught her...",
            "content": "She said that while it wasn’t easy, she had learned greater resilience.\n“It’s not easy but it builds resilience and I know there’s a learning in here for me ... I know there’s a reason I’ve gone through this journey.\n“People come up to me in the supe... [1126 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/luckless-job-hunter-karina-atkins-who-applied-for-300-jobs-lands-role-after-year/36ZJUA3HQZHW5CTVTJJS7TDS7E/",
            "image": "https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/XQ4ULYCBGFEI7NSEREZNFAGSWA.JPG?auth=bc67bb3b0b86c2f90eea7f0ea27e19158a5436b5c81dac6c860ffc0914280421&width=1200&height=675&quality=70&focal=1516%2C837&smart=false",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T22:52:30Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "a086bc2011f6ea09f34f87b9ef0a588b",
                "name": "NZ Herald",
                "url": "https://www.nzherald.co.nz"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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