The Philadelphia Inquirer

aid: philadelphia-inquirer
name: The Philadelphia Inquirer
description: The Philadelphia Inquirer is the largest newspaper in Pennsylvania, owned by the nonprofit Lenfest Institute
  for Journalism. Inquirer.com publishes Philadelphia, regional, national, and world news, sports, business, opinion, arts,
  food, and obituaries. The Inquirer does not operate a public commercial developer program. Programmatic surfaces are limited
  to Arc XP-generated RSS feeds, news sitemaps, and a small set of open-source repositories from its `phillymedia` GitHub
  organization, including the `dewey-mcp` Model Context Protocol server that wraps an Azure AI Search index of the Inquirer
  archive.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/philadelphia-inquirer.png
tags:
- News
- News Media
- Newspaper
- Journalism
- Philadelphia
- Pennsylvania
- Local News
- RSS
- Sitemap
- Arc Publishing
- MCP
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/philadelphia-inquirer/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-23'
modified: '2026-05-23'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: philadelphia-inquirer:philadelphia-inquirer-feeds-api
  name: The Philadelphia Inquirer Feeds API
  description: Site-wide and per-category RSS feeds.
  humanURL: https://www.inquirer.com
  baseURL: https://www.inquirer.com/arc/outboundfeeds/rss
  tags:
  - Feeds
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/philadelphia-inquirer-feeds-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.inquirer.com
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.inquirer.com/robots.txt
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/phillymedia/dewey-mcp
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/phillymedia/dewey-mcp#readme
- aid: philadelphia-inquirer:philadelphia-inquirer-health-api
  name: The Philadelphia Inquirer Health API
  description: Liveness and readiness probes.
  humanURL: https://www.inquirer.com
  baseURL: https://www.inquirer.com/arc/outboundfeeds/rss
  tags:
  - Health
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/philadelphia-inquirer-health-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.inquirer.com
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.inquirer.com/robots.txt
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/phillymedia/dewey-mcp
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/phillymedia/dewey-mcp#readme
- aid: philadelphia-inquirer:philadelphia-inquirer-mcp-api
  name: The Philadelphia Inquirer MCP API
  description: Model Context Protocol surface.
  humanURL: https://www.inquirer.com
  baseURL: https://www.inquirer.com/arc/outboundfeeds/rss
  tags:
  - MCP
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/philadelphia-inquirer-mcp-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.inquirer.com
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.inquirer.com/robots.txt
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/phillymedia/dewey-mcp
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/phillymedia/dewey-mcp#readme
- aid: philadelphia-inquirer:philadelphia-inquirer-sitemaps-api
  name: The Philadelphia Inquirer Sitemaps API
  description: XML sitemaps and sitemap indexes.
  humanURL: https://www.inquirer.com
  baseURL: https://www.inquirer.com/arc/outboundfeeds/rss
  tags:
  - Sitemaps
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/philadelphia-inquirer-sitemaps-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.inquirer.com
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.inquirer.com/robots.txt
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/phillymedia/dewey-mcp
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/phillymedia/dewey-mcp#readme
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/philadelphia-inquirer-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/philadelphia-inquirer-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.inquirer.com
- type: About
  url: https://about.inquirer.com
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/phillymedia
- type: MobileApp
  url: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-philadelphia-inquirer/id1495601779
  title: iOS App
- type: MobileApp
  url: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.philly.philly_native_android
  title: Android App
- type: Newsletter
  url: https://www.inquirer.com/newsletters/
- type: Subscribe
  url: https://www.inquirer.com/subscribe/
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.inquirer.com/careers/
- type: ParentOrganization
  url: https://www.lenfestinstitute.org
  title: The Lenfest Institute for Journalism
- type: Features
  data:
  - name: RSS Feeds
    description: Site-wide and per-category RSS 2.0 feeds generated by Arc XP outbound feeds, updated hourly.
  - name: News Sitemap
    description: Google News sitemap exposing the most recent articles for crawler discovery.
  - name: Sitemap Index
    description: Sitemap index with hundreds of dated child sitemaps spanning roughly two years of inquirer.com URLs.
  - name: Dewey AI Librarian
    description: LLM-powered archive search assistant built on Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, and Azure Blob Storage; cites
      article sources.
  - name: Dewey MCP Server
    description: FastMCP server exposing a single `search_archive` tool over the Inquirer archive index.
  - name: Mobile Apps
    description: Native iOS and Android apps for reading Inquirer.com content.
  - name: Newsletters
    description: Topical email newsletters across news, sports, business, food, and opinion.
  - name: E-Edition
    description: Daily replica e-edition of the printed newspaper for subscribers.
  - name: Obituaries and Legal Notices
    description: Searchable obituaries and statutory legal notices sections.
- type: UseCases
  data:
  - name: News Aggregation
    description: Aggregators and readers pull Inquirer headlines and full article HTML via RSS feeds.
  - name: Search Engine Indexing
    description: Google News, Bing, and other crawlers consume the news sitemap and sitemap index for article discovery.
  - name: Local Journalism Archive Search
    description: Newsroom staff and partners search the Inquirer archive via the Dewey AI librarian and Dewey MCP.
  - name: AI Agent Integration
    description: AI agents that speak MCP can connect to Dewey MCP to query the Inquirer archive as part of larger research
      workflows.
  - name: Sports and Politics Syndication
    description: Per-category RSS feeds (sports, politics, business, opinion) power topical syndication on third-party sites.
- type: Integrations
  data:
  - name: Arc XP
    description: Inquirer.com is published on Arc Publishing (Arc XP); RSS and sitemap surfaces are generated by Arc's outbound
      feeds.
  - name: Azure AI Search
    description: Dewey indexes Inquirer articles into Azure AI Search and queries it via the FastMCP server.
  - name: Azure OpenAI
    description: Dewey AI uses Azure OpenAI for embeddings and chat completions over retrieved article chunks.
  - name: dbt
    description: The Inquirer's Data Engineering team uses dbt as a primary transformation tool, per the public data-engineering-handbook.
  - name: BigQuery
    description: dbt models target BigQuery as the analytics warehouse.
  - name: Spotlight PA
    description: The Inquirer is a founding member of Spotlight PA, a Pennsylvania investigative-journalism collaboration.
- type: Customers
  data:
  - name: Print Subscribers
    description: Approximately 32,400 average print circulation (Wikipedia).
  - name: Digital Subscribers
    description: Approximately 118,000 digital subscribers (Wikipedia).
  - name: Newsroom
    description: Approximately 225 newsroom employees as of February 2021 (Wikipedia).
- type: Awards
  data:
  - name: Pulitzer Prizes
    description: The Philadelphia Inquirer has won 20 Pulitzer Prizes as of 2020.
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/phillymedia/dewey-mcp
  title: Dewey MCP Server
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/phillymedia/dewey-ai
  title: Dewey AI Librarian
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/phillymedia/vestapol
  title: Vestapol (web data to SQL)
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/phillymedia/data-engineering-handbook
  title: Inquirer Data Engineering Handbook
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/phillymedia/inquirer-api.github.io
  title: Inquirer API GitHub Pages (Swagger UI shell, unconfigured)
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/PhillyInquirer
- type: Facebook
  url: https://www.facebook.com/philly.com
- type: Instagram
  url: https://www.instagram.com/phillyinquirer/
- url: https://www.inquirer.com/arc/outboundfeeds/rss/?outputType=xml
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com