Example Demonstrating How to Fetch & Parse JSON Data from an API in Golang (using RapidAPI)

ApiExample.go

package main

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

// Convert JSON to Go Struct
// https://mholt.github.io/json-to-go/

type SoccerMatch struct {
	Title     string `json:"title"`
	Embed     string `json:"embed"`
	URL       string `json:"url"`
	Thumbnail string `json:"thumbnail"`
	Date      string `json:"date"`
	Side1     struct {
		Name string `json:"name"`
		URL  string `json:"url"`
	} `json:"side1"`
	Side2 struct {
		Name string `json:"name"`
		URL  string `json:"url"`
	} `json:"side2"`
	Competition struct {
		Name string `json:"name"`
		ID   int    `json:"id"`
		URL  string `json:"url"`
	} `json:"competition"`
	Videos []struct {
		Title string `json:"title"`
		Embed string `json:"embed"`
	} `json:"videos"`
}

func main() {

	url := "https://free-football-soccer-videos1.p.rapidapi.com/v1/"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("x-rapidapi-host", "free-football-soccer-videos1.p.rapidapi.com")
	req.Header.Add("x-rapidapi-key", "YouR-SuPeR-SWeeT-aPi-KeY-GoeS-HeRe")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)

        bodyStr := string(body)
        var matches []SoccerMatch
	json.Unmarshal([]byte(bodyStr), &matches)

	for i := 0; i < len(matches); i++ {
		fmt.Println(matches[i].Title)
	}
}