GET Post-Match News

This endpoint returns all the available post-match news articles within your subscription. Our Post-Match News is available immediately after the fixture has finished.

Base URL

https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/football/news/post-match

Example Response

{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": 2796,
      "fixture_id": 18841626,
      "league_id": 8,
      "title": "Aston Villa took command from the start against Everton",
      "type": "postmatch"
    },
    {
      "id": 2848,
      "fixture_id": 18841665,
      "league_id": 8,
      "title": "Liverpool keep on winning and now have four straight wins",
      "type": "postmatch"
    },
    {
      "id": 2864,
      "fixture_id": 18841664,
      "league_id": 8,
      "title": "In-form Manchester City win again in game against West Ham",
      "type": "postmatch"
    },
    {
      "id": 2865,
      "fixture_id": 18841661,
      "league_id": 8,
      "title": "Wilson scores as Newcastle sink Brentford",
      "type": "postmatch"
    },

Field Description

Field	Description	Type
id	Refers to the unique id of the news article.	integer
fixture_id	Refers to the fixture related to the news article	integer
league_id	Refers to the league related to the news article	integer
title	The title of the news article	string
type	The type of the news, either post-match or pre-match.	string

Query Parameters

Name	Required?	Description
api_token	YES Another option is to provide the API token in the header.	Your unique API token. Ex. ?api_token=YOUR_TOKEN
include	NO	Enrich the API response with more data by using includes. Ex. &include=participants;events
select	NO	Select specific fields on the base entity. Read how to select fields in our tutorial.
filters	NO	Filter the API response on multiple related entities. There are static filters and dynamic filters.​ Please find the possibilities in the Static and Dynamic Filter tab.
locale	NO	Translate name fields of the API Response in your selected language. Find more information and which languages are available on our translations page.

Static Filters

Static filters are always the same and filter in one specific way without any custom options. Each static filter is listed below and has a description of how it filters. For more information, please look at our Filters page.

Static Filters	Available on Entity	Description	Example
IdAfter	News	Filter all news starting from a certain news ID. Handy if you're doing an import for all news and want to continue from a certain ID.	&filters=IdAfter:newsitemID &filters=IdAfter:1980

Dynamic Filters

The dynamic filters are based on entities and includes. Each dynamic filter uses an entity to filter on and one entity to apply the filter on. Below are examples with explanations of how filters are set up. For more information, please look at our Filters page.

Using an include? Check their respective filters on their entity page. For example if you use &include=fixtures, you can apply fixture-related filters.

Dynamic Filters	Available on Entity	Description	Examples
newsitemLeagues	Leagues Check this endpoint for all possibilities.	Filter the news items on a selection of leagues separated by a comma.	&include=league&filters=newsitemLeagues:leagueIDS &include=league&filters=newsitemLeagues:8

Filters

More information on how to use filters can be found on our tutorials on how to filter. If you want more information on which filters to use you can check out the following endpoint:

https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/my/filters/entity?api_token=YOUR_TOKEN

Pagination

YES

Parameters

Parameter	Required	Description	Example
order	No	Returns news ordered by id (asc or desc). Defaults to asc	&order=desc
per_page	No	The amount of results to return per page (max 50.). Defaults to 25.	&per_page=30
page	No	You can paginate using the has_more parameter to determine if you can still propagate through the results.	&page=2

Include depth

You can use a total of 1 nested includes on this endpoint

Include options

fixture league lines

Related Entities:

Get an overview and explanation of all the fields returned in the API response. The related entities for the news endpoints are:

• News

Postman

We also offer detailed postman documentation with examples and a complete up-to-date version of all our endpoints. Below is a button that lets your fork the collection or import it.

Code Example

Ruby

require "uri"
require "net/http"

url = URI("https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/football/news/postmatch?api_token=YOUR_TOKEN")

https = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
https.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)

response = https.request(request)
puts response.read_body

Python

import http.client

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("api.sportmonks.com")
payload = ''
headers = {}
conn.request("GET", "/v3/football/news/postmatch?api_token=YOUR_TOKEN", payload, headers)
res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()
print(data.decode("utf-8"))

PHP

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => 'https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/football/news/postmatch?api_token=YOUR_TOKEN',
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => '',
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
  CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'GET',
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);

curl_close($curl);
echo $respons

Java

OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient().newBuilder()
  .build();
Request request = new Request.Builder()
  .url("https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/football/news/postmatch?api_token=YOUR_TOKEN")
  .method("GET", null)
  .build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

Node.js

var unirest = require('unirest');
var req = unirest('GET', 'https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/football/news/postmatch?api_token=YOUR_TOKEN')
  .end(function (res) { 
    if (res.error) throw new Error(res.error); 
    console.log(res.raw_body);
  });

Go

package main

import (
  "fmt"
  "net/http"
  "io/ioutil"
)

func main() {

  url := "https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/football/news/postmatch?api_token=YOUR_TOKEN"
  method := "GET"

  client := &http.Client {
  }
  req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, nil)

  if err != nil {
    fmt.Println(err)
    return
  }
  res, err := client.Do(req)
  if err != nil {
    fmt.Println(err)
    return
  }
  defer res.Body.Close()

  body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)
  if err != nil {
    fmt.Println(err)
    return
  }
  fmt.Println(string(body))
}