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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.

3 APIs 9 Features
NewsNews MediaNewspaperJournalismPhiladelphiaPennsylvaniaLocal NewsRSSSitemapArc PublishingMCP

APIs

The Philadelphia Inquirer RSS Feeds

Public RSS 2.0 feeds served from Arc XP's outbound feeds for Inquirer.com. A site-wide feed and per-category feeds expose article titles, links, descriptions, publication dates,...

The Philadelphia Inquirer Sitemaps

XML sitemaps and a Google News sitemap published by Arc XP. The sitemap index lists daily child sitemaps spanning roughly two years of inquirer.com URLs, with per-URL last-modif...

Dewey MCP

Dewey MCP is a containerized FastMCP server that exposes read-only search over the Inquirer's news archive backed by Azure AI Search. It surfaces a single `search_archive` MCP t...

Collections

Dewey MCP

OPEN

The Philadelphia Inquirer RSS Feeds

OPEN

The Philadelphia Inquirer Sitemaps

OPEN

Pricing Plans

Philadelphia Inquirer Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits

Philadelphia Inquirer Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps

Philadelphia Inquirer Finops

FINOPS

Features

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.

Use Cases

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

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.

Semantic Vocabularies

Philadelphia Inquirer Context

0 classes · 5 properties

JSON-LD

API Governance Rules

The Philadelphia Inquirer API Rules

4 rules · 1 errors 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Structure

Rss Item Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Example Payloads

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

Resources

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Website
Website
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About
About
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GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization
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iOS App
MobileApp
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Android App
MobileApp
📰
Newsletter
Newsletter
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Subscribe
Subscribe
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Careers
Careers
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The Lenfest Institute for Journalism
ParentOrganization
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Dewey MCP Server
GitHubRepository
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Dewey AI Librarian
GitHubRepository
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Vestapol (web data to SQL)
GitHubRepository
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Inquirer Data Engineering Handbook
GitHubRepository
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Inquirer API GitHub Pages (Swagger UI shell, unconfigured)
GitHubRepository
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X
X
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Facebook
Facebook
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Instagram
Instagram

Sources

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opencollection: 1.0.0
info:
  name: The Philadelphia Inquirer Sitemaps
  version: '1.0'
items:
- info:
    name: Sitemaps
    type: folder
  items:
  - info:
      name: Get Sitemap Index
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://www.inquirer.com/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-index-2/
      params:
      - name: outputType
        value: ''
        type: query
        description: Output serialization. Must be `xml` for sitemaps.
    docs: Returns a sitemap index listing daily child sitemaps for roughly two years of inquirer.com content.
  - info:
      name: Get Latest URL Sitemap
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://www.inquirer.com/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap/latest/
      params:
      - name: outputType
        value: ''
        type: query
        description: Output serialization. Must be `xml` for sitemaps.
    docs: Returns the most recent URL sitemap of articles.
  - info:
      name: Get Daily URL Sitemap
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://www.inquirer.com/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap/:date/
      params:
      - name: date
        value: ''
        type: path
        description: Calendar day in YYYY-MM-DD format.
      - name: outputType
        value: ''
        type: query
        description: Output serialization. Must be `xml` for sitemaps.
    docs: Returns the URL sitemap for the specified calendar day.
  - info:
      name: Get Google News Sitemap
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://www.inquirer.com/arc/outboundfeeds/news-sitemap/
      params:
      - name: outputType
        value: ''
        type: query
        description: Output serialization. Must be `xml` for sitemaps.
    docs: Returns the Google News sitemap of the most recent Inquirer.com articles, using the sitemap-news namespace.
  - info:
      name: Get Author Sitemap
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://www.inquirer.com/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-author-page/
    docs: Returns a sitemap of Inquirer.com author pages.
  - info:
      name: Get Restaurant Sitemap
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://www.inquirer.com/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-restaurant-page/
    docs: Returns a sitemap of Inquirer.com restaurant review and guide pages.
bundled: true