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Philadelphia Inquirer API Documentation

Extract Philadelphia and Pennsylvania government, neighborhoods, schools and sports from Philadelphia Inquirer as structured JSON. 5 endpoints documented below.

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First request

Endpoint: GET /phillyinquirer/article
Cost: 2 credits/request

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/phillyinquirer/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.inquirer.com%2Fnews%2Fice-arrest-philadelphia-california-business-trip-airport-20260924.html" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

API key authentication Error handling guide Rate limits and credits Philadelphia Inquirer Scraper API

How to use The Inquirer endpoints

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. A 2026-10-27 pull listed 24 slugs with very different volume: arts returned 4 stories while news returned 53 stories across two weeks. A second pull on 2026-10-27 re-checked the 24-slug section list and the cross-section feed.

Step 1
Choose among 24 slugs
The sections route lists 24 slugs, such as news, sixers, eagles, south-jersey and real-estate. Invalid values return 400.
Step 2
Know that wire copy is excluded
Headlines and top stories leave out Associated Press wire copy, so counts reflect Inquirer-originated work.
Step 3
Expect 13 paragraphs, about 4,200 characters
Article calls take a canonical inquirer.com URL ending in -<yyyymmdd>.html and return title, description, publication and update times, section, authors, lead image and body paragraphs in reading order, with captions, teasers and comments excluded.
Step 4
Look up a staff author like gammage_jeff
The author route takes a slug (for example gammage_jeff) or an inquirer.com author URL, exactly one, and returns name, role, biography, image and public web social links, with no email or phone.
Step 5
Size the beat before scheduling it
arts returned 4 stories from 2026-10-23 to 2026-10-26, and news returned 53 from 2026-10-13 to 2026-10-26. Sports slugs such as eagles, flyers and college-sports have their own feeds.
Step 6
Check the cross-section window
The news route returned 26 stories from 2026-10-21 12:01 UTC to 2026-10-26 22:53. All sampled rows had byline, summary and image.
Step 7
Start from arts and 23 more slugs
On 2026-10-27 the sections route listed 24 slugs, among them arts, business, college-sports, crime, eagles, education, entertainment, flyers. Treat each slug as its own feed: send it verbatim and remember that the same story may be listed under several.
Step 8
Read 16 stories spanning 44 hours
The cross-section news route returned 26 stories from 2026-10-21 12:01 UTC to 2026-10-26 22:53 UTC, with bylines on 26 of 26, summaries on 26 of 26 and images on 26 of 26. Use it to spot fresh items and a section pull to read the complete record.

Philadelphia Inquirer API endpoints

GET/phillyinquirer/articleapiKey2 credits/request

Get Philadelphia Inquirer article content

Returns 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`.

Required: url.

Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 9 fields returned with a value. In the sample: published_at: 2026-09-24; section: “news”; url: inquirer.com; title: 106 characters; authors: 2 entries; description: 167 characters; updated_at: 2026-09-24; image_url: inquirer.com.

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GET/phillyinquirer/authorapiKey2 credits/request

Get a Philadelphia Inquirer author profile

Returns 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.

Optional: slug, url.

Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 20 items. Filled in every item: title, url, type, summary, published_at, author. Not in every item: image_url (19). In the sample: published_at: 2026-07-22 to 2026-10-06; url: inquirer.com; title: median 101 characters; summary: median 115 characters; image_url: inquirer.com.

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GET/phillyinquirer/headlinesapiKey1 credit/request

Get Philadelphia Inquirer section headlines

Returns 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.

Required: section (24 allowed values: arts, business, college-sports, crime, eagles, education, entertainment, flyers, food, health, high-school-sports, life, news, opinion, phillies, politics, real-estate, science, sixers, soccer, south-jersey, sports, transportation, weather).

Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 3 items. Filled in every item: title, url, summary, published_at, author, image_url. In the sample: published_at: 2026-10-07 to 2026-10-13; url: inquirer.com; title: median 90 characters; summary: median 154 characters; image_url: inquirer.com.

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GET/phillyinquirer/newsapiKey1 credit/request

Get Philadelphia Inquirer top stories

Returns 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.

Takes no parameters.

Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 29 items. Filled in every item: title, url, summary, published_at, author. Not in every item: image_url (28). In the sample: published_at: 2026-10-07 to 2026-10-13; url: inquirer.com; title: median 87 characters; summary: median 158 characters; image_url: inquirer.com.

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GET/phillyinquirer/sectionsapiKey1 credit/request

Get Philadelphia Inquirer sections

Lists 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.

Takes no parameters.

Sampled 14 Oct 2026: 24 items. Filled in every item: slug, name, url. In the sample: name: “Arts” and 23 other values; url: inquirer.com.

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Philadelphia Inquirer API Documentation

Extract Philadelphia and Pennsylvania government, neighborhoods, schools and sports from Philadelphia Inquirer as structured JSON. 5 endpoints documented below.

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First request

Endpoint: GET /phillyinquirer/article
Cost: 2 credits/request

curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/phillyinquirer/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.inquirer.com%2Fnews%2Fice-arrest-philadelphia-california-business-trip-airport-20260924.html" \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

API key authentication Error handling guide Rate limits and credits Philadelphia Inquirer Scraper API

How to use The Inquirer endpoints

Step 1
Choose among 24 slugs
The sections route lists 24 slugs, such as news, sixers, eagles, south-jersey and real-estate. Invalid values return 400.
Step 2
Know that wire copy is excluded
Headlines and top stories leave out Associated Press wire copy, so counts reflect Inquirer-originated work.
Step 3
Expect 13 paragraphs, about 4,200 characters
Article calls take a canonical inquirer.com URL ending in -<yyyymmdd>.html and return title, description, publication and update times, section, authors, lead image and body paragraphs in reading order, with captions, teasers and comments excluded.
Step 4
Look up a staff author like gammage_jeff
The author route takes a slug (for example gammage_jeff) or an inquirer.com author URL, exactly one, and returns name, role, biography, image and public web social links, with no email or phone.
Step 5
Size the beat before scheduling it
arts returned 4 stories from 2026-10-23 to 2026-10-26, and news returned 53 from 2026-10-13 to 2026-10-26. Sports slugs such as eagles, flyers and college-sports have their own feeds.
Step 6
Check the cross-section window
The news route returned 26 stories from 2026-10-21 12:01 UTC to 2026-10-26 22:53. All sampled rows had byline, summary and image.
Step 7
Start from arts and 23 more slugs
On 2026-10-27 the sections route listed 24 slugs, among them arts, business, college-sports, crime, eagles, education, entertainment, flyers. Treat each slug as its own feed: send it verbatim and remember that the same story may be listed under several.
Step 8
Read 16 stories spanning 44 hours
The cross-section news route returned 26 stories from 2026-10-21 12:01 UTC to 2026-10-26 22:53 UTC, with bylines on 26 of 26, summaries on 26 of 26 and images on 26 of 26. Use it to spot fresh items and a section pull to read the complete record.