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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'
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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- 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 | 200 | 5 req/min |
| Hobby | $30/mo | 1,000 | 20 req/min |
| Developer | $100/mo | 5,000 | 100 req/min |
| Team | $300/mo | 20,000 | 300 req/min |
| Company | $1,000/mo | 100,000 | 500 req/min |
Each endpoint has a fixed posted price per successful call — most fall between 1 and 10 credits — shown on this API's page before you run it. Exceeding the rate limit returns a 429 response. Authenticate with the X-API-Key header.