# Provenance stamped 2026-10-07 (roadmap#943): written by an API Evangelist sweep (dated 2026-05-23 by the file itself), not
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method: generated
generated: '2026-05-23'
name: The Philadelphia Inquirer Rate Limits
description: >-
  The Philadelphia Inquirer does not publish per-IP or per-key rate limits
  for its public RSS feeds and sitemaps. The site's robots.txt restricts a
  small set of paths (search results, betting, light pages, wires, previews,
  systest folders) but does not declare a Crawl-delay or rate ceiling.
  Consumers should treat the RSS feeds as hourly-refreshing and avoid
  aggressive polling.
specVersion: '0.1'
provider:
  id: philadelphia-inquirer
  name: The Philadelphia Inquirer
modified: '2026-05-23'
policies:
- id: rss-polling-guidance
  scope: rss-feeds
  type: guidance
  description: Feeds rebuild approximately hourly; clients should poll no
    more often than every 15 minutes per feed and honor HTTP caching headers.
  documented: false
- id: sitemap-crawl-guidance
  scope: sitemaps
  type: guidance
  description: Sitemaps are large; clients should respect HTTP caching and
    conditional GETs. No declared Crawl-delay in robots.txt.
  documented: false
- id: dewey-mcp-self-hosted
  scope: dewey-mcp
  type: self-hosted
  description: Dewey MCP runs as a self-hosted FastMCP server; rate limits
    are determined by the deployer's Azure AI Search tier and the operator's
    own configuration, not by The Philadelphia Inquirer.
  documented: false
robotsTxt:
  url: https://www.inquirer.com/robots.txt
  disallow:
  - /light/
  - /search
  - /sports/betting/
  - /wires/
  - /Preview/
  - /zzz-systest/
  - /zzz_systest/