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": 233946,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "5f6907d7dee4eb8b9062389d6838937e",
            "title": "Broncos reveal 1.30am phone call, stunning details behind Deine Mariner’s limb-saving surgery’",
            "description": "Broncos reveal stunning details of star’s emergency surgery... and the 1.30am call that saved his leg",
            "content": "The Brisbane Broncos have revealed that outside back Deine Mariner underwent “limb-saving” surgery in the early hours of Sunday morning after picking up an injury the previous night against the Roosters.\nPlaying in the opening 34 minutes of the match... [2545 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-premiership/nrl-2026-brisbane-broncos-outside-back-deine-mariner-undergoes-surgery-timelines-revealed-midnight-visit-nrl-news/news-story/3772a42c0b8bd49fdd053fcc3020f0a6",
            "image": "https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/7dd3c8ace58b440d8e2a6a863f9af8e6",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-04T04:23:43Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "4dff6eec49aed8ad858c020da892bcf1",
                "name": "Fox Sports",
                "url": "https://www.foxsports.com.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "9b751c1d3fd5196102244b4006b2efa6",
            "title": "Investigation reveals series of bungles in Hobart Cup race 'debacle'",
            "description": "Tasmania's top horse race was run 37 metres shorter than advertised. Officials knew the track distance was likely incorrect but proceeded anyway. This is what happened.",
            "content": "Tasmania's premier horse race went ahead despite officials being aware the starting barriers had been placed in the wrong position, an investigation has found.\nThe Hobart Cup, which has been running since 1875, was held at the Elwick Racecourse on Fe... [6392 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-04/tasracing-hobart-cup-short-course-blunder/106638240",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/4c404782bd3380b3f9cd73c4bab6b287?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=1152&cropW=2048&xPos=0&yPos=107&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-04T04:14:48Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "Australian Broadcasting Corporation",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "de9eecee47e9403fd4f03322bd1cd355",
            "title": "AFL Rd 8 Report Card: Alarming sole fail as Blues ‘trauma’ laid bare; fresh Tigers hope",
            "description": "Alarming fail as ‘trauma’ laid bare; big sign of life in AFL sleeping giant — Report Card",
            "content": "There was just one fail assessed from the weekend of footy - but a couple of clubs narrowly avoided the dreaded fate - while there were no perfect grades handed out.\nEvery team’s performance analysed and graded in foxfooty.com.au’s Round 8 edition of... [25126 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-2026-round-8-report-card-highlights-every-club-reviewed-and-graded-best-and-worst-players-stats-latest-news/news-story/791442d4d53c80dd53223ab9b1af262e",
            "image": "https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/92424d3414bb80d6bcc684bef39d4176",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-04T03:01:15Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "4dff6eec49aed8ad858c020da892bcf1",
                "name": "Fox Sports",
                "url": "https://www.foxsports.com.au"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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