The Philadelphia Inquirer

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.

The Philadelphia Inquirer publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Feeds API, Health API, MCP API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include News, News Media, Newspaper, Journalism, and Philadelphia.

The The Philadelphia Inquirer catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

The Philadelphia Inquirer’s developer surface includes engineering blog and 21 more developer resources.

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30.4/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

AccessFree

3 APIs 9 Features 5 Use Cases

NewsNews MediaNewspaperJournalism Philadelphia Pennsylvania Local News RSS SitemapArc PublishingMCP

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Composite quality — 30.4/100 · thin

Contract Quality 12.2 / 23

Developer Ergonomics 2.1 / 18

Access Clarity 5.2 / 18

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 12

Contract Governance 1.5 / 11

Discoverability 6.7 / 9

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 20/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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APIs 4

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

The Philadelphia Inquirer Feeds API

Site-wide and per-category RSS feeds.

The Philadelphia Inquirer Health API

Liveness and readiness probes.

The Philadelphia Inquirer MCP API

Model Context Protocol surface.

The Philadelphia Inquirer Sitemaps API

XML sitemaps and sitemap indexes.

Open Collections 8

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Dewey MCP

OPEN COLLECTION

Dewey MCP Feeds API

OPEN COLLECTION

Dewey MCP Feeds Health API

OPEN COLLECTION

Dewey Feeds MCP API

OPEN COLLECTION

Dewey MCP Feeds Sitemaps API

OPEN COLLECTION

The Philadelphia Inquirer RSS Feeds

OPEN COLLECTION

The Philadelphia Inquirer Sitemaps

OPEN COLLECTION

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Philadelphia Inquirer Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Philadelphia Inquirer Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Philadelphia Inquirer Finops

FINOPS

Features 9

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

RSS Feeds

Site-wide and per-category RSS 2.0 feeds generated by Arc XP outbound feeds, updated hourly.

News Sitemap

Google News sitemap exposing the most recent articles for crawler discovery.

Sitemap Index

Sitemap index with hundreds of dated child sitemaps spanning roughly two years of inquirer.com URLs.

Dewey AI Librarian

LLM-powered archive search assistant built on Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, and Azure Blob Storage; cites article sources.

Dewey MCP Server

FastMCP server exposing a single `search_archive` tool over the Inquirer archive index.

Mobile Apps

Native iOS and Android apps for reading Inquirer.com content.

Newsletters

Topical email newsletters across news, sports, business, food, and opinion.

E-Edition

Daily replica e-edition of the printed newspaper for subscribers.

Obituaries and Legal Notices

Searchable obituaries and statutory legal notices sections.

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Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Philadelphia Inquirer Context

0 classes · 5 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

The Philadelphia Inquirer API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

The Philadelphia Inquirer API Rules

4 rules · 1 errors 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 3

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Dewey Search Result

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Philadelphia Inquirer RSS Item

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Philadelphia Inquirer Sitemap URL

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Rss Item Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 5

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Dewey Mcp Searcharchive Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Rss Getcategoryrssfeed Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Rss Getsiterssfeed Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Sitemaps Getnewssitemap Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Sitemaps Getsitemapindex Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Philadelphia Inquirer Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Philadelphia Inquirer Agentic Access

11 operations · 1 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 5

What developers build with this provider.

News Aggregation

Aggregators and readers pull Inquirer headlines and full article HTML via RSS feeds.

Search Engine Indexing

Google News, Bing, and other crawlers consume the news sitemap and sitemap index for article discovery.

Local Journalism Archive Search

Newsroom staff and partners search the Inquirer archive via the Dewey AI librarian and Dewey MCP.

AI Agent Integration

AI agents that speak MCP can connect to Dewey MCP to query the Inquirer archive as part of larger research workflows.

Sports and Politics Syndication

Per-category RSS feeds (sports, politics, business, opinion) power topical syndication on third-party sites.

Integrations 6

Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.

Arc XP

Inquirer.com is published on Arc Publishing (Arc XP); RSS and sitemap surfaces are generated by Arc's outbound feeds.

Azure AI Search

Dewey indexes Inquirer articles into Azure AI Search and queries it via the FastMCP server.

Azure OpenAI

Dewey AI uses Azure OpenAI for embeddings and chat completions over retrieved article chunks.

dbt

The Inquirer's Data Engineering team uses dbt as a primary transformation tool, per the public data-engineering-handbook.

BigQuery

dbt models target BigQuery as the analytics warehouse.

Spotlight PA

The Inquirer is a founding member of Spotlight PA, a Pennsylvania investigative-journalism collaboration.

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

ContributionGuide

ContributionGuide

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 6

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Dewey MCP Server

GitHubRepository

Dewey AI Librarian

GitHubRepository

Vestapol (web data to SQL)

GitHubRepository

Inquirer Data Engineering Handbook

GitHubRepository

Inquirer API GitHub Pages (Swagger UI shell, unconfigured)

GitHubRepository

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

IssueTracker

IssueTracker

Company 7

The organization behind the API

Website

About

Newsletter

Careers

Facebook

Instagram

Blog

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Other 7

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

iOS App

MobileApp

Android App

MobileApp

Subscribe

The Lenfest Institute for Journalism

ParentOrganization

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Source (apis.yml)

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
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: unknown
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  - repository-unlicensed
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
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: '0.23'
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:
  - Sitemap
  tags_raw:
  - 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: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/phillymedia/dewey-mcp/issues
- type: ContributionGuide
  url: https://github.com/phillymedia/dewey-mcp/blob/main/docs/contributing.md
- 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

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