# The Philadelphia Inquirer

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/philadelphia-inquirer/  
**Website:** https://www.inquirer.com  
**APIs profiled:** 4

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.

## Kin Score — 28.7 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.4 from 28.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 52.4 |
| Governance | 13.6 |
| Contract Governance | 13.6 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 2.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

## Agent readiness — 23.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (4)

- **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.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Philadelphia Inquirer Agentic Access** — 11 operations · 1 acting

## Security (1)

- **Philadelphia Inquirer Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Philadelphia Inquirer Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (5)

- **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.

## Tags

News, News Media, Newspaper, Journalism, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Local News, RSS, Sitemap, Arc Publishing, MCP

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/philadelphia-inquirer/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.