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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": 218264,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "19d9e0f55a62ae7b3bcbf4e92cbaad02",
            "title": "Travis Head’s devastating knock gives Australia’s selectors a dilemma",
            "description": "Test-winning century and Usman Khawaja’s bad back make strong case for Travis Head to open Australia’s innings again",
            "content": "Accidents do not come much happier. Usman Khawaja’s mid-game back problem was annoying for the player and potentially damaging for his team, until it wasn’t. Clearing out the regular dry-powder opener created space in the final stanza of the Perth Te... [3674 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/nov/24/travis-head-usman-khawaja-opener-australia-ashes-cricket",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8f7f0bc3a65bc268b7dea6898d41596e4f5e2646/269_0_2693_2155/master/2693.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=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=9a264cdc38096b51ebfd6d661fa09f2e",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-24T19:21:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "9786dc10c863b9ab591e02d90089864e",
            "title": "Bears miss mountain of talent... but could still sign these guns, including outcast No.7",
            "description": "Bears miss mountain of talent... but could still sign these guns, including outcast No.7",
            "content": "The Perth Bears are yet to make an official NRL signing.\nBut Mal Meninga isn’t worried, even without having a player on his books 24 days into the free agency period.\n“There is no pressure on us to sign anyone before Christmas, or even into the New Y... [15751 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-premiership/nrl-2025-perth-bears-signings-state-of-play-transfers-contracts-mal-meninga-news-videos-who-could-they-sign-transfer-targets/news-story/581e6125d94482831c800b95ebd02ec4",
            "image": "https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/e9bfa49e5d8ef7fdb7c59fbfe4fba7fe",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-24T19:10:33Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "4dff6eec49aed8ad858c020da892bcf1",
                "name": "fox sports",
                "url": "https://www.foxsports.com.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "f73bf99dc18fcc1c266eab398b497b49",
            "title": "SSP state of play: The AFL clubs set to make list calls and the train-on prospects in the mix",
            "description": "Although the trade and draft periods have come to an end, clubs still have the opportunity to add to their lists via the pre-season supplemental period (SSP).",
            "content": "Although the trade and draft periods have come to an end, clubs still have the opportunity to add to their lists via the pre-season supplemental period (SSP).\nThe mechanism was introduced ahead of the 2019 AFL season, giving overlooked footballers a ... [2240 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.zerohanger.com/ssp-state-of-play-the-afl-clubs-set-to-make-list-calls-and-the-train-on-prospects-in-the-mix-2-171160/",
            "image": "https://www.zerohanger.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/GettyImages-2210055931.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-24T18:19:15Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "542284a9a0f348ab2b555599ec40ffaf",
                "name": "Zero Hanger",
                "url": "https://www.zerohanger.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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