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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.

agent aware

Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles The Philadelphia Inquirer the way a machine reads it — 44 machine-readable artifacts across 4 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — The Philadelphia Inquirer scores 40.4/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 39/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 40.4/100 · thin
Contract Quality 14.6 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 39/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile The Philadelphia Inquirer

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for The Philadelphia Inquirer. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 4

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

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.

Open Collections 3

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Features 9

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

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.

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Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Philadelphia Inquirer Context

0 classes · 5 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

The Philadelphia Inquirer API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

The Philadelphia Inquirer API Rules

4 rules · 1 errors · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 3

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Dewey Search Result

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Philadelphia Inquirer RSS Item

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Philadelphia Inquirer Sitemap URL

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Rss Item Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 5

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Philadelphia Inquirer Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Philadelphia Inquirer Agentic Access

11 operations · 1 acting

11 operations · 1 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 5

What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.

What developers build with this provider.

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 6

Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.

Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.

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.

Resources

Every other property we hold for The Philadelphia Inquirer — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Other 7

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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