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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": 219916,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "0f9c95dd18ba2e424e99c086d48b070e",
            "title": "Aussies’ Green call pays off as Poms back in ‘disarray’ after big Starc scare — LIVE",
            "description": "Aussies’ Green call pays off as Poms back in ‘disarray’ after big Starc scare — LIVE",
            "content": "Australian fast bowler Mitchell Starc has ripped through England’s top order in a phenomenal opening spell on day one of the Ashes opener at Perth Stadium.\nWith wounded quicks Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood out of action, the left-armed speedster ste... [2319 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket/the-ashes/ashes-cricket-2025-australia-vs-england-first-test-live-scores-updates-video-day-1-stream-start-time-perth-weather-piers-morgan-prediction/news-story/d336e276bd6adb6a78fef53f641f3e4b",
            "image": "https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/770f99e9e8b08c25638aaa562664b443",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-21T04:04:55Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "4dff6eec49aed8ad858c020da892bcf1",
                "name": "fox sports",
                "url": "https://www.foxsports.com.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "35802abb8b04355a1be583aa9d0ee17f",
            "title": "Australia v England cricket day 1 scores, results, wickets, teams, time, schedule, how to watch",
            "description": "The 2025-26 Ashes cricket series is finally here, with Australia facing England in the first test from Perth and airing live on Channel 7. Follow blog commentary, scores and results.",
            "content": "Mitchell Starc versus England and so far it isn’t a contest. Joe Root may briefly have thought his luck has turned in Australia when he narrowly avoided being run out at the non-striker’s end, but he was unable to cope with Starc’s superb line and th... [5230 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theage.com.au/sport/cricket/the-ashes-1st-test-2025-live-updates-steve-smith-leads-australia-against-england-on-day-one-of-the-series-in-perth-20251121-p5nhat.html",
            "image": "https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.3725099983246051%2C$multiply_0.7554%2C$ratio_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_743%2C$y_220/t_crop_custom/q_86%2Cf_auto/t_metro_live_no_age_social_wm/8b3a7cf29008346adbc110fba60cfc8fb416bdb0",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-21T03:35:44Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8952aa953859e9190b836f04018f5efe",
                "name": "The Age",
                "url": "https://www.theage.com.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "2b7660f4f2ef276174277fce118f78ee",
            "title": "Tasmania's education regulator apologises to year 11 and 12 students as fourth error reported in TCE exams",
            "description": "Tasmanian Assessment, Standards and Certification apologises to students after a fourth error in this year's Tasmanian Certificate of Education exams comes to light.",
            "content": "The head of the body that oversees the Tasmanian Certificate of Education (TCE) has apologised to year 11 and 12 students for errors on this year's exam papers, as a fourth issue has come to light.\nThe Tasmanian Assessment, Standards and Certificatio... [4634 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-21/tasmanian-2025-tce-tasc-exam-errors-apology/106036184",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/c73fab34f590d351b204d4c580784b7c?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=1688&cropW=3000&xPos=0&yPos=138&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-21T03:15:07Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "abc.net.au",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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