The Philadelphia Inquirer

The Philadelphia Inquirer Feeds API

Site-wide and per-category RSS feeds.

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GET /arc/outboundfeeds/rss/ Get Site-Wide RSS Feed #

GET /arc/outboundfeeds/rss/category/{category}/ Get Category RSS Feed #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Philadelphia Inquirer RSS Feeds API
  version: '1.0'
  summary: Arc XP-generated RSS 2.0 feeds for Inquirer.com.
  description: Public RSS 2.0 feeds for The Philadelphia Inquirer, served from Arc XP outbound feeds. A site-wide feed and per-category feeds (news, sports, business, opinion, entertainment, etc.) deliver up to 20 recent articles with title, link, description, publication date, and full encoded HTML body. Feeds are rebuilt approximately hourly. No authentication is required.
  contact:
    name: The Philadelphia Inquirer
    url: https://www.inquirer.com
  license:
    name: All rights reserved
    url: https://www.inquirer.com/site-services/terms-of-use.html
servers:
- url: https://www.inquirer.com
  description: Production
tags:
- name: Feeds
  description: Site-wide and per-category RSS feeds.
paths:
  /arc/outboundfeeds/rss/:
    get:
      operationId: getSiteRssFeed
      summary: Get Site-Wide RSS Feed
      description: Returns the top-level Inquirer.com RSS 2.0 feed of the most recent articles across all sections.
      tags:
      - Feeds
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/outputType'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: RSS 2.0 XML document.
          content:
            application/rss+xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/RssFeed'
  /arc/outboundfeeds/rss/category/{category}/:
    get:
      operationId: getCategoryRssFeed
      summary: Get Category RSS Feed
      description: Returns an RSS 2.0 feed scoped to a single Inquirer.com section such as news, sports, business, opinion, entertainment, food, life, health, or real-estate.
      tags:
      - Feeds
      parameters:
      - name: category
        in: path
        required: true
        description: Section slug.
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - news
          - sports
          - business
          - opinion
          - politics
          - entertainment
          - life
          - food
          - health
          - real-estate
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/outputType'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: RSS 2.0 XML document scoped to the requested category.
          content:
            application/rss+xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/RssFeed'
        '404':
          description: Unknown category slug.
components:
  schemas:
    RssFeed:
      type: object
      description: RSS 2.0 channel with a list of recent articles.
      properties:
        title:
          type: string
          example: Inquirer.com
        link:
          type: string
          format: uri
          example: https://www.inquirer.com
        description:
          type: string
        lastBuildDate:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        ttl:
          type: integer
          description: Hours until the feed should be refreshed.
          example: 60
        items:
          type: array
          maxItems: 20
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/RssItem'
      required:
      - title
      - link
      - items
    RssItem:
      type: object
      description: A single RSS item representing an Inquirer.com article.
      properties:
        title:
          type: string
        link:
          type: string
          format: uri
        description:
          type: string
        author:
          type: string
        category:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        pubDate:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        guid:
          type: string
        content_encoded:
          type: string
          description: Full article HTML body in CDATA.
      required:
      - title
      - link
      - pubDate
  parameters:
    outputType:
      name: outputType
      in: query
      required: false
      description: Output serialization. Must be `xml` for RSS.
      schema:
        type: string
        enum:
        - xml
        default: xml

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