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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": 218236,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "98124572aeda6f31ee48a64b3a247431",
            "title": "Champions League: Which clubs can still make the top eight and qualify for the knockouts?",
            "description": "With the league phase of Champions League almost at its conclusion, which teams can join Arsenal and Bayern Munich in the top eight?",
            "content": "The league phase of the Champions League is reaching its conclusion.\nWith one round of fixtures remaining, what each side needs to progress has finally become clear. Or a little bit clearer, at least.\nWhile Arsenal are safely through to the last 16, ... [2200 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c3ve1gnk26eo",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_sport/1200/cpsprodpb/c092/live/0ceba480-f71c-11f0-b5f7-49f0357294ff.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-21T23:30:28Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f331a5ed3965fb59761dfcecfc7e7a34",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "36204b724a65b3ac71736019b26fbe5f",
            "title": "Waiting for the Stars: Why Maxwell, Stoinis barely batted in brutal BBL loss",
            "description": "Could Glenn Maxwell and Marcus Stoinis played more of a role with the bat as the Stars desperately tried to keep their Big Bash season alive?",
            "content": "The Melbourne Stars have been slammed for leaving two of their most dangerous hitters waiting on the sidelines during their chase of Hobart’s total in a rain-marred Big Bash elimination final on Wednesday night.\nSpeaking on Fox Cricket in the latter ... [3782 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theage.com.au/sport/cricket/they-got-it-wrong-ex-australian-stars-slam-melbourne-for-shock-call-in-epic-bbl-final-20260121-p5nw08.html",
            "image": "https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.353%2C$multiply_0.7554%2C$ratio_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_custom/q_86%2Cf_auto/dc0ac3f0d486c6ee455556fc073603ff9c60c5d5",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-21T23:21:55Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8952aa953859e9190b836f04018f5efe",
                "name": "The Age",
                "url": "https://www.theage.com.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "5d2fd5070a868afb470d082ae2b20405",
            "title": "‘I was rattled’: Papenhuyzen opens up on Storm exit... and his future in the NRL",
            "description": "‘RETIRED’: Paps reveals shocking incident left him trying to hide tears in sheds from teammates",
            "content": "Ryan Papenhuyzen has opened up on his Storm exit — revealing the moment he knew he needed to step away from the game and quit rugby league.\nFollowing Melbourne’s grand final defeat at the hands of the Broncos it was announced Papenhuyzen had been gra... [3108 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-premiership/nrl-2025-ryan-papenhuyzen-breaks-silence-on-melbourne-storm-exit-rugby-league-retirement-news-videos-what-is-next-for-papenhuyzen-highlights-r360/news-story/ea895a46b6a4a5c4648cc8cc9d01eacb",
            "image": "https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/d44351297b3b7b2c3014900434c92aef",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-21T22:17:48Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "4dff6eec49aed8ad858c020da892bcf1",
                "name": "fox sports",
                "url": "https://www.foxsports.com.au"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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