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Australia Sports News API

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

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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": 229008,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "c2fe62344ea9711e7b99fb0657b7ab0c",
            "title": "‘We just give it away’ West Indies skipper dishes out reality check after horror nine-wicket thumping",
            "description": "‘We just give it away’ West Indies skipper dishes out reality check after horror nine-wicket thumping",
            "content": "Jacob Duffy took 5-38 as New Zealand cruised to a nine-wicket victory over the West Indies in the second Test in Wellington on Friday for a 1-0 series lead.\nSeamer Duffy bagged his second five-wicket haul in only his third Test to help roll the West ... [2981 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket/cricket-2025-new-zealand-beat-west-indies-test-series-wellington-roston-chase-delivers-reality-check-news-videos-highlights/news-story/5d9b61e366e1fd335a9878fbaccdbb7c",
            "image": "https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/345001dbe140775c3559697f3c9a01da",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-12T12:02:18Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "4dff6eec49aed8ad858c020da892bcf1",
                "name": "fox sports",
                "url": "https://www.foxsports.com.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "dbb9a430024ee376f5435f0a54e5e071",
            "title": "Even Bazball’s implosion can’t shake Barmy Army’s crew of Ashes veterans",
            "description": "If anyone knows how to weather a whitewash, it’s the merry band of England fans marking their 30th anniversary at their spiritual home",
            "content": "Courage, soldier. Ben Stokes’s England team may be heading into the third Ashes Test already 2-0 down, but not everyone in English cricket is fazed. There is one group tailor-made for this scenario, a crack(pot) unit who can lay claim to be the ultim... [6016 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/dec/12/ashes-cricket-england-australia-barmy-army-fans-bazball",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9af2de76b4bb2a97052a53c2157d5d54c4ebbe71/378_0_2328_1863/master/2328.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctb3BpbmlvbnMucG5n&enable=upscale&s=ff4bceb87f1da5154e52c325c4da545d",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-12T08:54:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "a3cf9587cebdc64fc89d2d9b24637009",
            "title": "Struggling England quick Jofra Archer slammed by Australia greats Ryan Harris and Ricky Ponting",
            "description": "Australian greats Ryan Harris and Ricky Ponting have criticised England’s spearhead after the visitors were destroyed in Brisbane to go down 0-2 ahead of the third Ashes Test.",
            "content": "Former Australian Ashes hero Ryan Harris has taken aim at Jofra Archer, declaring the struggling England quick should remove his extravagant gold chain because it could help him bowl better for longer.\n“If he takes it off, he might be able to bowl qu... [4378 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/take-it-off-will-ya-australian-great-slams-struggling-archer-tells-him-to-remove-his-gold-chain-20251212-p5nn6t.html",
            "image": "https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.5085%2C$multiply_0.7554%2C$ratio_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_174%2C$y_47/t_crop_custom/q_86%2Cf_auto/fa5f2bd05f3c54dd8d867595b384f0d6bd3ddfd4",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-12T07:35:19Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "65045958568caf3ea94d17e4238416e8",
                "name": "The Sydney Morning Herald",
                "url": "https://www.smh.com.au"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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