Philadelphia civic research
Use The Inquirer endpoints to turn philadelphia civic research into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Research the Inquirer’s local journalism with its city and state context preserved.
Extract Philadelphia and Pennsylvania government, neighborhoods, schools and sports from Philadelphia Inquirer as structured JSON.
Endpoint families
5
Documented params
9
Examples
5
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
5
Methods
GET
Required params
7
Schema refs
5
{
"platform": "The Inquirer",
"endpoint": "phillyinquirer-news",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/phillyinquirer/news",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Extract Philadelphia and Pennsylvania government, neighborhoods, schools and sports from Philadelphia Inquirer as structured JSON.
Use The Inquirer endpoints to turn philadelphia civic research into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use The Inquirer endpoints to turn education and neighborhood monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use The Inquirer endpoints to turn regional sports coverage into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
Every figure below is read from the live The Inquirer endpoint catalog — 5 endpoints, 9 documented request parameters, and 5 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
5 documented The Inquirer endpoints, grouped into 5 request families — Article, Author and Headlines, plus 2 more.
9 request parameters are documented across those The Inquirer endpoints, 7 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
5 of the 5 The Inquirer endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 5 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
The Inquirer endpoints document their error responses (400, 404, 429 and 503) alongside the success schema, so a block, a rate limit, or a missing record comes back as a typed error rather than silently empty data.
5 hosted MCP tools back the The Inquirer endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
Coverage map
/phillyinquirer/article
/phillyinquirer/author
/phillyinquirer/headlines
/phillyinquirer/news
/phillyinquirer/sections
Endpoint catalog
/phillyinquirer/articleReturns a Philadelphia Inquirer story by canonical `inquirer.com` `url` ending in `-<yyyymmdd>.html`: title, description, publication and update times, section, authors, lead image and body `paragraphs` in reading order. Captions, teasers and comments are excluded. Associated Press `/wires/` pages, section pages and author pages return `400`.
MCP tool phillyinquirer_article
/phillyinquirer/authorReturns a Philadelphia Inquirer staff author profile by `slug` (for example `gammage_jeff`) or an inquirer.com author `url`; supply exactly one. The response has `name`, `role`, `biography`, `image_url`, public web social links (no email or phone) and the latest 20 stories, with no paging. An unknown slug returns a 404 error.
MCP tool phillyinquirer_author
/phillyinquirer/headlinesReturns recent Philadelphia Inquirer stories for one section, without Associated Press wire copy. `section` is required and takes one of 24 slugs, such as `news`, `sixers`, `eagles`, `south-jersey` or `real-estate`; invalid values return `400`. Each item has a title and URL, and may include summary, author, publication time and image.
MCP tool phillyinquirer_headlines
/phillyinquirer/newsReturns the current Philadelphia Inquirer top stories, with no parameters. Each item has a title, canonical URL, summary, publication time and author name when available. Associated Press wire copy, which makes up much of the source, is excluded.
MCP tool phillyinquirer_news
/phillyinquirer/sectionsLists the 24 Philadelphia Inquirer section slugs accepted by `phillyinquirer-headlines`, such as `news`, `sixers`, `eagles` and `south-jersey`. Each entry has a `slug`, display `name` and `url`. Sub-sections such as `news/philadelphia` are not listed because the `news` section already contains them.
MCP tool phillyinquirer_sections
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How to scrape The Inquirer
The Philadelphia Inquirer is a regional newsroom whose ownership is held through the nonprofit Lenfest Institute model. Its reporting spans Philadelphia neighborhoods, Pennsylvania government, education, investigations and sports. A national keyword search can miss the local relevance of a school board or transit decision, so retain the publisher’s section classification. The cataloged news and section feeds exclude Associated Press wire copy, which is helpful when the goal is to study this newsroom’s own editorial output.
Read /phillyinquirer/sections and use one accepted section with /phillyinquirer/headlines. Keep the section label for analyses that distinguish city government, neighborhoods, state politics and sports.
/phillyinquirer/news returns fresh public feed items without AP wire copy. Use canonical URLs to join a section result to a top-story result while counting the underlying article once.
Pass a canonical story URL to /phillyinquirer/article. For a staff writer, /phillyinquirer/author provides public role, biography and latest listed work; use the article date rather than assuming that profile order is a complete timeline.
For continuing city stories, save publication metadata from each article and the time you collected its feed card. A promoted follow-up on the homepage is a separate editorial choice from the initial report.
FAQ
No. The documented news and headline feeds exclude Associated Press wire copy. That makes them useful for examining the Inquirer’s own reporting, but it also means they are not a complete view of every item a site visitor may see.
City institutions and state government operate at different levels. The publisher’s section labels help avoid attributing a statewide policy story to a neighborhood beat or vice versa.