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: kin@apievangelist.com