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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": 206418,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "1fdccb6cfef4b1365a32086ba887a5b1",
            "title": "Manchester City: How club have turned exits of young players into big business",
            "description": "Manchester City have made more than £250m selling young players from their talent factory over the last five years.",
            "content": "\"I have a lot, a lot of incredible, good opinions about him,\" said Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola when asked about Oscar Bobb in November.\n\"His intuition is extraordinary. The moment he frees his mind he can do it.\"\nTwo months on and Bobb is clos... [5103 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/ceqzpj2vv7go",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_sport/1200/cpsprodpb/b845/live/5fa182f0-fb93-11f0-b385-5f48925de19a.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-28T08:15:09Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f331a5ed3965fb59761dfcecfc7e7a34",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "8f7d5bc89d0228e65898b5dda66bccba",
            "title": "AO’s ‘enormous scandal’ set to explode with banned device’s sneaky tactic reveal",
            "description": "AO’s ‘enormous scandal’ set to explode with banned device’s sneaky tactic reveal",
            "content": "The Australian Open’s battle with fitness tracking company WHOOP is set to blow up again.\nWorld No.1s Carlos Alcaraz and Aryna Sabalenka have been both told to remove their WHOOP devices from their wrists at various stages of the tournament.\nUFC 325:... [4162 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.foxsports.com.au/tennis/aos-enormous-scandal-set-to-explode-with-banned-devices-sneaky-tactic-reveal-in-social-media-taunt/news-story/50f45ebb6f6990c7ae07bc8477e67682",
            "image": "https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/83da38621f1ed373c1c78d5c5f747df2",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-28T05:15:23Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "4dff6eec49aed8ad858c020da892bcf1",
                "name": "Fox Sports",
                "url": "https://www.foxsports.com.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "57c08961e9a7a5d0ca4a4025d6b50270",
            "title": "The Secret Pro: Don’t follow me down the hill",
            "description": "Jonas Vingegaard's training crash is the sort of nonsense the internet is made for: lots of shouting, lots of people who are very sure their perspective is DEFINITELY RIGHT. Except they're not.",
            "content": "This column is going to be a bit different. It’s not a bunch of stuff I’ve heard or seen, it’s just my thoughts on something that happened today. Might get a bit ranty.\nYou’ve seen it by now, I’m sure. Jonas Vingegaard, Tour de France champ, crashed ... [1644 chars]",
            "url": "https://escapecollective.com/secret-pro-dont-follow-me-down-the-hill/",
            "image": "https://escapecollective.com/content/images/2026/01/tsprwanda--1-.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-28T04:23:02Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "1a3da5548314615e986a28b9f4ee36eb",
                "name": "Escape Collective",
                "url": "https://escapecollective.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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