BBC Sport News is used to fetch content list data from BBC Sport pages.

• Fetch BBC Sport list content by sport category
• Support region-based requests
• Return articles, videos, live items, and other content cards
• Suitable for fetching the homepage feed or a specific sport topic page

Use XCrawl to Fetch BBC Sport News

Usage

curl -s -X POST 'https://run.xcrawl.com/v1/data' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer $XCRAWL_API_KEY'\
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "engine": "bbc_sport_news",
    "location": "US",
    "sport_type": "football"
  }'

Request parameter notes:

• engine must be bbc_sport_news
• location specifies the target region
• sport_type specifies the sport category, such as football, cricket, or formula1

Response Example

{
  "result": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.bbc.com/sport/",
      "topic_title": "BBC Sport",
      "description": "Sports news and live sports coverage including scores, results, video, audio and analysis...",
      "item_count": 72,
      "video_count": 20,
      "live_count": 3,
      "results": [
        {
          "position": 1,
          "headline": "Premier League news conferences: Slot 'feels support'; Howe '100% committed'",
          "summary": "All the latest from Premier League managers...",
          "url": "https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/live/cy41pmdnwwlt",
          "content_type": "live",
          "attribution": "Football",
          "image_url": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/480/..."
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Parameters

Required Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
location	string	Specifies the target region.
sport_type	string	Specifies the sport category.

Parameter Notes

• location defaults to US
• location supports multiple region values such as US, HK, CA, GB, and JP
• sport_type supports football, cricket, formula1, rugby-union, rugby-league, tennis, golf, boxing, and athletics

Response Fields

Field	Type	Description
url	string	Fetched BBC Sport page URL.
base_url	string	Base site URL used to normalize relative links.
page_title	string	Page title.
canonical_url	string	Canonical URL declared by the page.
route	string	Internal page route value.
page_path	string	Normalized page path.
sport_key	string	Current sport section key.
topic_title	string	Page title or topic title.
description	string	Page-level description text.
language	string	Page language code.
item_count	number	Total number of returned items.
video_count	number	Number of video items.
live_count	number	Number of live items.
result_count	number	Number of parsed result objects.
meta	object	Page-level metadata.
results	array	Content card list.

Result Item Fields

Each item in results[] typically includes:

Field	Type	Description
position	number	One-based result position.
source_kind	string	Source container type.
group_key	string	Content container key.
group_title	string	Content container title.
headline	string	Content headline.
summary	string	Content summary.
url	string	Content URL.
path	string	Relative content path.
content_type	string	Content type such as article, video, or live.
promo_type	string	Original promo type.
item_type	string	Original item type.
service	string	Service value, typically sport.
urn	string	Content resource identifier.
content_title	string	Separate content title field.
is_live	boolean	Whether the item is live content.
last_published	string	Raw publish time string.
duration_seconds	number	Video duration in seconds.
subitem_count	number	Number of subitems.
attribution	string	Attribution label such as sport category.
attribution_url	string	Attribution link URL.
posted_label	string	Publish timing label.
posted_text	string	Compact publish timing text.
posted_alt_text	string	Expanded publish timing text.
comments	number	Comment count.
comments_url	string	Comment link URL.
image_url	string	Primary image URL.
image_alt	string	Image alt text.
image_width	number	Image width.
image_height	number	Image height.
image_loading	string	Image loading strategy.
image_tracking_id	string	Image tracking identifier.
image_srcset	string	Responsive image srcset value.

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