Slovakia Sports News API

Get the live top sports headlines from Slovakia 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 Slovakia. 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=sk&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=sports" \
  --data-urlencode "country=sk" \
  --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": "sk", "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: "sk",
    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"  => "sk",
    "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=sk&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": 63048,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "1d8520807a6945c24124c16ac7856612",
            "title": "ONLINE : Washington - Montreal / Fehérváry , Slafkovský / NHL LIVE",
            "description": "NHL - Sledujte ONLINE prenos zo zápasu Washington Capitals - Montreal Canadiens aj s Martinom Fehérvárym a Jurajom Slafkovským na ŠPORT.sk!",
            "content": "ŠPORT.sk • ŠPORT.sk, onlajny.eu • 14. okt 2026 o 23:01\nWashington Capitals s Martinom Fehérvárym sa dnes v noci predstaví na domácom ľade Capital One Areny proti Montrealu Canadiens s Jurajom Slafkovským. Podarí sa slovenským hokejistom zapísať sa do... [9744 chars]",
            "url": "https://sport.aktuality.sk/hokej/clanok/online-washington-montreal-fehervary-slafkovsky-nhl-live-2026101421013960415",
            "image": "https://sportal365images.com/process/smp-images-production/ringier.sk/26042023/00ded555-1ffe-44f7-bc93-2fd40c14cbfb?operations=crop(0:70:1200:745),fit(1200:)",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-15T00:25:01Z",
            "lang": "sk",
            "source": {
                "id": "ef085c05b2f92c5a29fe4e0e6861efbc",
                "name": "Šport.sk",
                "url": "https://sport.aktuality.sk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "4408661b2f89a70a3155e6f74c7e1450",
            "title": "VIDEO: Góly zápasu Slovan Bratislava - Stuttgart (Liga majstrov)",
            "description": "Nemecký tím bol favoritom zápasu.",
            "content": "Futbalisti Slovana Bratislava dnes hrali druhý zápas ligovej fázy Ligy majstrov. Na Tehelnom poli prehrali s VfB Stuttgart 0:3.\nLiga majstrov: Program, tabuľka, výsledky 2026/2027 (prehľad)\nNemecký tím bol favoritom zápasu a na ihrisku slovenského ma... [593 chars]",
            "url": "https://sportnet.sme.sk/spravy/futbal-slovan-bratislava-stuttgart-goly-video-2-kolo-liga-majstrov-2026-2027/",
            "image": "https://mediamanager.ws/images/0x117x2000x1125-1200x0xresize/pages/s/sportnet.sme.sk/2026/10/2s0a5230.JPG",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T21:11:15Z",
            "lang": "sk",
            "source": {
                "id": "25b17c48798f50593bc302e84b7e25ae",
                "name": "Sportnet",
                "url": "https://sportnet.sme.sk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "e53b1301fd29a6f0476e9a25e3ba009f",
            "title": "Hokejisti Nitry nepostúpili do osemfinále Ligy majstrov",
            "description": "O osude slovenského zástupcu v súťaži rozhodol český tím.",
            "content": "Hokejisti Nitry nepostúpili do osemfinále hokejovej Ligy majstrov. Po svojom poslednom zápase ešte figurovali na poslednom postupovom mieste a čakali na výsledky duelov Storhamar - Graz a Davos - Liberec.\nStorhamar prehral vysoko 3:6 a Nitru nepredbe... [1097 chars]",
            "url": "https://sportnet.sme.sk/spravy/hokej-vysledky-dnes-streda-14-oktober-6-kolo-liga-majstrov-2026-2027/",
            "image": "https://mediamanager.ws/images/0x175x2000x1125-1200x0xresize/pages/s/sportnet.sme.sk/2026/10/hckjlmnrrgle131026nr12psldn250175.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T20:38:03Z",
            "lang": "sk",
            "source": {
                "id": "25b17c48798f50593bc302e84b7e25ae",
                "name": "Sportnet",
                "url": "https://sportnet.sme.sk"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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