The Philadelphia Inquirer Sitemaps

openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: The Philadelphia Inquirer Sitemaps
  version: '1.0'
  summary: XML sitemaps and Google News sitemap for Inquirer.com.
  description: >-
    XML sitemap endpoints published by Arc XP for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
    A sitemap index lists hundreds of daily child sitemaps spanning roughly
    two years of inquirer.com URLs. A dedicated Google News sitemap exposes
    the most recent articles using the `http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-news/0.9`
    namespace. Additional sitemaps cover authors and restaurant pages. No
    authentication is required.
  contact:
    name: The Philadelphia Inquirer
    url: https://www.inquirer.com
servers:
- url: https://www.inquirer.com
  description: Production
tags:
- name: Sitemaps
  description: XML sitemaps and sitemap indexes.
paths:
  /arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-index-2/:
    get:
      operationId: getSitemapIndex
      summary: Get Sitemap Index
      description: Returns a sitemap index listing daily child sitemaps for
        roughly two years of inquirer.com content.
      tags:
      - Sitemaps
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/outputType'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Sitemap index XML document.
          content:
            application/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/SitemapIndex'
  /arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap/latest/:
    get:
      operationId: getLatestSitemap
      summary: Get Latest URL Sitemap
      description: Returns the most recent URL sitemap of articles.
      tags:
      - Sitemaps
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/outputType'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: URL sitemap XML document.
          content:
            application/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/UrlSet'
  /arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap/{date}/:
    get:
      operationId: getDailySitemap
      summary: Get Daily URL Sitemap
      description: Returns the URL sitemap for the specified calendar day.
      tags:
      - Sitemaps
      parameters:
      - name: date
        in: path
        required: true
        description: Calendar day in YYYY-MM-DD format.
        schema:
          type: string
          pattern: ^\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}$
          example: 2026-05-22
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/outputType'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: URL sitemap XML document.
          content:
            application/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/UrlSet'
        '404':
          description: No sitemap for the requested date.
  /arc/outboundfeeds/news-sitemap/:
    get:
      operationId: getNewsSitemap
      summary: Get Google News Sitemap
      description: Returns the Google News sitemap of the most recent
        Inquirer.com articles, using the sitemap-news namespace.
      tags:
      - Sitemaps
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/outputType'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Google News sitemap XML document.
          content:
            application/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/NewsUrlSet'
  /arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-author-page/:
    get:
      operationId: getAuthorSitemap
      summary: Get Author Sitemap
      description: Returns a sitemap of Inquirer.com author pages.
      tags:
      - Sitemaps
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Author URL sitemap XML document.
          content:
            application/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/UrlSet'
  /arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-restaurant-page/:
    get:
      operationId: getRestaurantSitemap
      summary: Get Restaurant Sitemap
      description: Returns a sitemap of Inquirer.com restaurant review and
        guide pages.
      tags:
      - Sitemaps
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Restaurant URL sitemap XML document.
          content:
            application/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/UrlSet'
components:
  parameters:
    outputType:
      name: outputType
      in: query
      required: false
      description: Output serialization. Must be `xml` for sitemaps.
      schema:
        type: string
        enum:
        - xml
        default: xml
  schemas:
    SitemapIndex:
      type: object
      description: A sitemap index pointing at child sitemaps.
      properties:
        sitemaps:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
            properties:
              loc:
                type: string
                format: uri
              lastmod:
                type: string
                format: date
    UrlSet:
      type: object
      description: A sitemap URL set.
      properties:
        urls:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/SitemapUrl'
    SitemapUrl:
      type: object
      properties:
        loc:
          type: string
          format: uri
        lastmod:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        changefreq:
          type: string
          enum:
          - always
          - hourly
          - daily
          - weekly
          - monthly
          - yearly
          - never
        priority:
          type: number
          minimum: 0
          maximum: 1
        image:
          type: object
          properties:
            loc:
              type: string
              format: uri
            caption:
              type: string
    NewsUrlSet:
      type: object
      description: A Google News sitemap URL set.
      properties:
        urls:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
            properties:
              loc:
                type: string
                format: uri
              news:
                type: object
                properties:
                  publication:
                    type: object
                    properties:
                      name:
                        type: string
                        example: The Philadelphia Inquirer
                      language:
                        type: string
                        example: en
                  publication_date:
                    type: string
                    format: date-time
                  title:
                    type: string