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United Kingdom Sports News API

Get the live top sports headlines from United Kingdom with our JSON API.

Get API key for the United Kingdom 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 United Kingdom.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=gb&category=sports&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 584000,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "9105b75fe4bad9c2339cfcbc0e2a1005",
            "title": "Hearts vs Falkirk: Scottish Cup radio & text updates, match report",
            "description": "Listen to Sportsound and follow live text commentary, score updates and match report from Hearts vs Falkirk in the Scottish Cup.",
            "content": "✅\nThis has been a flawless display from both teams so far.\nLiam Henderson fires his spot-kick into the top corner and we're level again.\nPost\nJust a nod to the fact that Sportscene has just started on BBC One Scotland.\nThere's a link at the top of th... [963 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/live/czr48zprke1t",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_sport/1200/cpsprodpb/84cf/live/d16302c0-f214-11f0-b5f7-49f0357294ff.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-17T22:52:30Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "52c1d6d1543339c5e334dbeb1e0a7d25",
            "title": "Only a thrilling final can save a predictable Africa Cup of Nations from being forgotten",
            "description": "Despite high-quality matches, Senegal’s meeting with hosts Morocco may pale with the World Cup looming",
            "content": "Sometimes a tournament’s greatest strength can be its greatest weakness. In part because of the excellent playing conditions, this has been an Africa Cup of Nations devoid of shocks. The better teams keep winning. There has been a lot of good footbal... [6003 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jan/17/only-a-thrilling-final-can-save-a-predictable-africa-cup-of-nations-from-being-forgotten",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/afe4a7661dacd643b43bcb8f3c59fc56787e4a89/0_0_5000_4000/master/5000.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=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctb3BpbmlvbnMucG5n&enable=upscale&s=69bae4b2b41399337596c8981e6e51a4",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-17T22:31:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "dd05cb28c944e0c1f8e6d8d544bfab3c",
            "title": "Madueke: “We take a point and we move on\"",
            "description": "Winger takes positive as we extend unbeaten run with draw at Forest",
            "content": "Noni Madueke was clearly disappointed we weren’t able to take all three points away from Nottingham Forest, but looked for the positives after another draw that extends our lead at the top of the Premier League table.\nWe are now 11 games unbeaten in ... [1116 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.arsenal.com/news/madueke-we-take-point-and-we-move",
            "image": "https://www.arsenal.com/sites/default/files/styles/desktop_16x9/public/images/NM_te2cqn5r.png?h=6dff888f&auto=webp&itok=lU86w9xN",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-17T20:29:49Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "3d0ee770a2bb74d1a1b50028a30ddadd",
                "name": "Arsenal.com",
                "url": "https://www.arsenal.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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