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Australia Sports News API

Get the live top sports headlines from Australia with our JSON API.

Get API key for the Australia Sports News API

API Demonstration

This example demonstrates the HTTP request to make and the JSON response you will receive when you use the news api to get the top headlines from Australia.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=au&category=sports&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 228748,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "c9abd285b13b0ab369417cc91f6e3526",
            "title": "Mollie O'Callaghan, Kyle Chalmers hail depth, Sam Short shows class on night one of Australian Open swimming",
            "description": "Mollie O'Callaghan and Kyle Chalmers claimed Australian Open gold medals in the 100m freestyle events, while Sam Short showed his 400m rivals a clean pair of heels on night one at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre.",
            "content": "For Australia's best and brightest swimmers, the Australian Open competition on the Gold Coast this week is a time to experiment.\nAustralian swimmers don't come much brighter or better than Mollie O'Callaghan, who flew down the Gold Coast Aquatic Cen... [6676 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-06/australian-open-swimming-mollie-ocallaghan-kyle-chalmers/106535948",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/fd758335ec49209aaf3774bdcf53842b?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=2064&cropW=3669&xPos=0&yPos=169&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-06T12:19:28Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "Australian Broadcasting Corporation",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "eb010de4f16ff25721b07ce570c2d859",
            "title": "Molly O'Callaghan, Kyle Chalmers hail depth, Sam Short shows class on night one of Australian Open swimming",
            "description": "Molly O'Callaghan and Kyle Chalmers claimed Australian Open gold medals in the 100m freestyle events, while Sam Short showed his 400m rivals a clean pair of heels on night one at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre.",
            "content": "For Australia's best and brightest swimmers, the Australian Open competition on the Gold Coast this week is a time to experiment.\nAustralian swimmers don't come much brighter or better than Molly O'Callaghan, who flew down the Gold Coast Aquatic Cent... [6675 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-06/australian-open-swimming-molly-ocallaghan-sam-short-kyle-chalmer/106535948",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/fd758335ec49209aaf3774bdcf53842b?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=2064&cropW=3669&xPos=0&yPos=169&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-06T12:19:28Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "Australian Broadcasting Corporation",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "c6776303f54c1aff9aa17c36f78c68ed",
            "title": "‘Stop it already!’ Carlton ‘can’t sack Voss’... but the club keeps making things even worse for him",
            "description": "‘Stop it already!’ Carlton ‘can’t sack Voss’... but the club keeps making things even worse for him",
            "content": "Carlton are staring down the “bleak” reality of just one win in their opening four games, but Gerard Whateley has implored the Blues to avoid marching coach Michael Voss “to the gallows” in April.\nVoss’ tenure is in the spotlight after the club’s fad... [3149 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-2026-carlton-blues-horror-start-to-season-michael-voss-future-as-coach-second-half-fade-out-afl360-gerard-whateley-emotional-plea/news-story/dbb36dd2fdb7d8f9abcdc2fe0052236c",
            "image": "https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/ca4555cb3b6c1ba8a9076071297c60b1",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-06T11:27:50Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "4dff6eec49aed8ad858c020da892bcf1",
                "name": "Fox Sports",
                "url": "https://www.foxsports.com.au"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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