topic=sportsSports
Competition, results and the business of sport — fixtures and match reporting alongside governance, transfers and the commercial side.
Extremely high syndication and extremely time-sensitive. Collapse by story and filter by publication date.
The business of sport — transfers, broadcasting rights, governance disputes — carries this tag as well as `business`, which is worth knowing when you are trying to exclude match reports.
Results are also the material where an index tells you least: a scoreline is a fact best taken from a structured feed, and general web retrieval is better used for the reporting around it.
Typical queries
- match reports
- transfer coverage
- competition schedules
Example
curl -H "x-api-key: $UNLOB_API_KEY" \
"https://api.unlob.com/search?q=match+reports&topic[]=sports&collapse=story"
# Or the authoritative sources on this topic, by graph centrality
curl -H "x-api-key: $UNLOB_API_KEY" \
"https://api.unlob.com/authorities?topic=sports&limit=10"Common questions
How do I search only sports sources?
Set topic[]=sports on any search request. Topic tags are assigned at index time and work across verticals, so the same subject is found in news, documentation and academic writing alike.
What does the sports topic cover?
Competition, results and the business of sport — fixtures and match reporting alongside governance, transfers and the commercial side.
Any advice for sports queries?
Extremely high syndication and extremely time-sensitive. Collapse by story and filter by publication date.
Search sports sources
10,000 free credits a month. Pair the topic filter with a corroboration floor for anything you will repeat as fact.