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Access Sky Sports football news, transfer bulletins, match scores, and fixtures via 8 endpoints. Filter by team, competition, or date. Full article content included.
What is the Sky API?
The Sky Sports API exposes 8 endpoints covering football news, transfer window updates, and match fixtures from Sky Sports. Use get_football_news for paginated headlines across all football coverage, get_article_detail to retrieve full body text, author, and images for any article, or get_football_scores_fixtures to pull match results grouped by competition for any given date.
curl -X GET 'https://api.parse.bot/scraper/d0901a5d-d4d7-47dc-a554-de7c70618bff/get_football_news?page=1' \ -H 'X-API-Key: $PARSE_API_KEY'
Typed, relational, agent-ready
A generated client with real types, enums, and the links between objects — the structure a flat JSON response can't carry. Autocompletes in your editor and reads cleanly to coding agents.
- Fully typed · autocompletes
- Objects link to objects
- Typed errors & pagination
Typed Python client. Set up the SDK in your uv project, then pull this API’s typed client:
uv add parse-sdk uv run parse init uv run parse add --marketplace sky-com-api
uv run parse add --marketplace pulls a pinned snapshot of this canonical API — it won’t change underneath you. To customize it, subscribe and swap to your own copy.
"""Walkthrough: Sky Sports Football API — bounded, re-runnable; every call capped."""
from parse_apis.sky_sports_football_api import (
SkySports, TeamSlug, CompetitionSlug, InputNotFound
)
client = SkySports()
# Browse the latest football news headlines (capped at 6 items).
for article in client.feeds.list(limit=6):
print(article.headline, article.url)
# Drill into one article for full content.
article_summary = client.feeds.premier_league(limit=1).first()
if article_summary:
full_article = article_summary.details()
print(full_article.headline, full_article.author, full_article.date)
# Team-specific news via constructible resource + enum.
arsenal = client.team(TeamSlug.ARSENAL)
for news_item in arsenal.news(limit=3):
print(news_item.headline, news_item.image_url)
# Competition news using the CompetitionSlug enum.
ucl = client.competition(CompetitionSlug.CHAMPIONS_LEAGUE)
for news_item in ucl.news(limit=3):
print(news_item.headline, news_item.url)
# Transfer bulletins — cursor-paginated live feed.
for bulletin in client.transfers.bulletins(limit=3):
print(bulletin.title, bulletin.author, bulletin.created_at)
# Fixtures and scores for today.
for match in client.fixtures.list(limit=5):
print(match.competition, match.home_team, match.away_team, match.status)
# Typed error handling for a missing article.
try:
missing = client.articles.get(url="https://www.skysports.com/football/news/00000/deleted-article")
print(missing.headline)
except InputNotFound as exc:
print(f"Article not found: {exc}")
print("exercised: feeds.list / feeds.premier_league / article.details / team.news / competition.news / transfers.bulletins / fixtures.list / articles.get")
Get the latest football news articles from Sky Sports. Returns paginated article listings sorted by publish date. Each article summary includes a URL that can be passed to get_article_detail for full content.
| Param | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| page | integer | Page number for pagination. |
{
"type": "object",
"fields": {
"page": "string representing the current page number",
"articles": "array of ArticleSummary objects",
"has_more": "boolean indicating if more articles are available",
"category_id": "string category identifier"
},
"sample": {
"data": {
"page": "1",
"articles": [
{
"tag": null,
"url": "https://www.skysports.com/football/news/12016/13552812/world-cup-england-win-final-warm-up-against-costa-rica-so-are-they-ready-to-challenge-for-tournament-glory",
"date": null,
"summary": "",
"headline": "Are England now ready to go and win the World Cup?",
"image_url": "https://e0.365dm.com/26/06/768x432/skysports-ollie-watkins-england_7270420.jpg?20260611000809"
}
],
"has_more": true,
"category_id": "11095"
},
"status": "success"
}
}About the Sky API
News and Article Endpoints
Four endpoints handle article listings: get_football_news returns general football coverage, get_premier_league_news scopes to Premier League content, get_team_news accepts a team_slug parameter (e.g. arsenal, liverpool, manchester-city) for club-specific feeds, and get_competition_news accepts a competition_slug (e.g. premier-league, fa-cup, championship). All four return the same shape: a paginated array of article objects with headline, url, summary, image_url, date, and tag, plus a has_more boolean for walking subsequent pages. To retrieve full content, pass any article url to get_article_detail, which returns the complete body text, ISO 8601 date, author (or null), a headline, summary, and an images array with per-image url and caption.
Transfer Centre Endpoints
get_transfer_news pulls live bulletins from the Transfer Centre feed in reverse chronological order. Each bulletin carries an id, title, author, created_at timestamp, content_html, and summary. Pagination uses a cursor model — pass the next_cursor integer from one response as the cursor parameter in the next call to load older bulletins; a null next_cursor indicates the end of the feed. get_transfer_done_deals returns confirmed deals from the current transfer window, with each deal object containing a club and either a structured deal field or a raw content string, plus the source article's headline.
Scores and Fixtures
get_football_scores_fixtures accepts an optional date parameter in YYYY-MM-DD format (defaults to today UTC) and returns all matches for that day grouped by competition. Each match object includes id, competition, home_team, away_team, home_score, away_score, time, and status. This covers multiple competitions in a single response, making it straightforward to build daily fixture displays or scan results across leagues without multiple requests.
The Sky API is a managed, monitored endpoint for sky.com — not a raw scraper you maintain. Every endpoint is automatically health-checked on a schedule, and when sky.com changes and a check fails, the API is automatically queued for repair and re-verified. It is built to keep working as the site underneath it changes.
This isn't an official sky.com API — it's an independent, maintained REST wrapper over public data. Where the source has no official API (or only a limited one), Parse gives you a stable contract over a source that never promised one, and keeps it current. Need a new endpoint or field? You can revise it yourself in plain English and the agent rebuilds it against the live site in minutes — contributing the change back to the shared API is free.
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Can I fix or extend this API myself if I need a new endpoint or field?+
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- Aggregate daily football headlines by club using get_team_news with a team_slug parameter
- Build a transfer window tracker by polling get_transfer_news and storing bulletin IDs to detect new entries
- Display full Sky Sports articles in a mobile app by chaining get_football_news with get_article_detail
- Populate a multi-competition fixture widget using get_football_scores_fixtures with a specific date
- Monitor confirmed transfer deals during window periods via get_transfer_done_deals
- Filter Premier League news separately from general football content using get_premier_league_news
- Archive competition-specific coverage by paginating get_competition_news for slugs like fa-cup or championship
| Tier | Price | Credits/month | Rate limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 100 | 5 req/min |
| Hobby | $30/mo | 1,000 | 20 req/min |
| Developer | $100/mo | 5,000 | 100 req/min |
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