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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": 86081,
    "articles": [
        {
            "title": "Australian Open 2025 LIVE updates: Jones apologises on air after Djokovic boycotts interviews with Nine",
            "description": "Defending champion Jannik Sinner takes on Holger Rune as world No.2 Iga Swiatek faces lucky loser Eva Lys and Alex Michelsen takes up the fight to Alex de Minaur.",
            "content": "Big bounce-back from Holger Rune who was bullied in the first set by world number one Jannik Sinner, but the Dane bounced back to claim the second set 6-3.\nSinner began to struggle and didn’t look physically right, favouring his left side and looking... [462 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theage.com.au/sport/tennis/australian-open-2025-live-updates-de-minaur-keeps-aussie-hopes-alive-as-sinner-swiatek-chase-title-20250119-p5l5lt.html",
            "image": "https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.5519%2C$multiply_0.7554%2C$ratio_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_10/t_crop_custom/q_86%2Cf_auto/t_theage_live_no_age_social_wm/cee9b4ee0c3ffc433709b070e7c6d4d00ab02baa",
            "publishedAt": "2025-01-20T03:49:27Z",
            "source": {
                "name": "The Age",
                "url": "https://www.theage.com.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "title": "Tony Jones mockery of Djokovic fans 'embarrassing'",
            "description": "Despite Australian Open crowds, Nine's start to 2025 hasn't exactly gone to plan, with Seven pulling strong viewer numbers with the cricket.",
            "content": "After Nine’s hellish 2024, senior executives would have hoped its Australian Open broadcast rights meant some early ratings wins, especially compared to rival network Seven and its coverage of cricket’s Big Bash League. They would have had every righ... [4969 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/01/20/nine-australian-open-viewer-numbers-tony-jones-djokovic/",
            "image": "https://www.crikey.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/20250120148744538268-original.jpg?quality=70",
            "publishedAt": "2025-01-20T01:55:45Z",
            "source": {
                "name": "Crikey",
                "url": "https://www.crikey.com.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "title": "Order of play; Novak Djokovic, Alex de Minaur v Alex Michelsen, schedule, matches, Jannik Sinner",
            "description": "Welcome to our live coverage of day nine from Melbourne Park, where Alex de Minaur headlines the start of round four.",
            "content": "It's time for the eighth installment of the riveting, intergenerational rivalry between Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz. This one, though, will be the first at the Australian Open — and the first in the quarter finals of a tournament; each of the o... [2228 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nine.com.au/sport/tennis/australian-open-2025-live-results-day-9-novak-djokovic-alex-de-minaur-v-alex-michelsen-jannik-sinner-schedule-20250120-p5l5ok.html",
            "image": "https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_1%2C$multiply_1%2C$ratio_1.777778%2C$width_960%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_custom/c_scale%2Cw_1200%2Cq_88%2Cf_auto/5342c708febeca0917191069a43ebbd8e98dff5b",
            "publishedAt": "2025-01-20T00:38:12Z",
            "source": {
                "name": "Nine",
                "url": "https://www.nine.com.au"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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