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
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
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:rss
  name: The Philadelphia Inquirer RSS Feeds
  description: >-
    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, and encoded article HTML for syndication
    and aggregation. Feeds are rebuilt hourly.
  humanURL: https://www.inquirer.com
  baseURL: https://www.inquirer.com/arc/outboundfeeds/rss
  tags:
  - RSS
  - News
  - Syndication
  - Arc Publishing
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/rss-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.inquirer.com
- aid: philadelphia-inquirer:sitemaps
  name: The Philadelphia Inquirer Sitemaps
  description: >-
    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-modified, change frequency, priority, and image
    metadata. A dedicated Google News sitemap exposes the most recent articles
    using the sitemap-news namespace.
  humanURL: https://www.inquirer.com/robots.txt
  baseURL: https://www.inquirer.com/arc/outboundfeeds
  tags:
  - Sitemap
  - News
  - SEO
  - Arc Publishing
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sitemaps-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.inquirer.com/robots.txt
- aid: philadelphia-inquirer:dewey-mcp
  name: Dewey MCP
  description: >-
    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 tool with text query, optional date and author
    filters, and a configurable result limit (max 20). The server is open
    source under the `phillymedia/dewey-mcp` repository and is the protocol
    surface for the broader Dewey AI librarian project, which emerged from a
    Lenfest Institute fellowship supported by Microsoft and OpenAI.
  humanURL: https://github.com/phillymedia/dewey-mcp
  tags:
  - MCP
  - AI
  - Search
  - Archive
  - Azure AI Search
  properties:
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/phillymedia/dewey-mcp
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/phillymedia/dewey-mcp#readme
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/dewey-mcp-openapi.yml
common:
- 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/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: [email protected]