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Philadelphia Inquirer API endpoint
Philadelphia Inquirer article API
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`.
GETapiKey2 credits/requestPhiladelphia Inquirerpublicnews.articleResponseDoc
Philadelphia Inquirer/phillyinquirer/articleEndpoint facts
- Method
- GET
- API path
- /phillyinquirer/article
- Auth
- apiKey
- Credits
- 2 credits/request
- Charged on
- Successful 2xx responses only
- Platform
- Philadelphia Inquirer
- Response schema
- #/definitions/publicnews.articleResponseDoc
How this endpoint behaves
Query parameter: url is a canonical HTTPS inquirer.com story URL, for example https://www.inquirer.com/news/<slug>-<yyyymmdd>.html or https://www.inquirer.com/politics/philadelphia/<slug>-<yyyymmdd>.html. Returns public metadata (title, description, publication and update times, section, authors, lead image) and the article body.
paragraphs holds the body text in reading order. The standfirst, image captions, inline "READ MORE" teasers, promos and comments are not included.
Subscription wall: the Inquirer marks its stories as subscriber-gated in their page metadata (for example https://www.inquirer.com/news/ice-arrest-philadelphia-california-business-trip-airport-20260924.html declares isAccessibleForFree: false), but on an anonymous request the full story text is included in the page, and that is what this endpoint returns. paywalled is therefore omitted. The publisher can change this at any time; if a story is ever served as a teaser only, the response would carry a short body.
Associated Press wire pages (/wires/...) are not supported and return a 400 error, as do section, author and search pages and any URL without the -<yyyymmdd>.html story suffix.
Sampled response
- Request, 14 Oct 2026
- GET /phillyinquirer/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.inquirer.com%2Fnews%2Fice-arrest-philadelphia-california-business-trip-airport-20260924.html
- Fields returned with a value
- 9
| Field | In the sample | Value in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| url | Has a value | inquirer.com |
| title | Has a value | 106 characters |
| description | Has a value | 167 characters |
| published_at | Has a value | 2026-09-24 |
| updated_at | Has a value | 2026-09-24 |
| section | Has a value | “news” |
| authors | Has a value | 2 entries |
| image_url | Has a value | inquirer.com |
| paragraphs | Has a value | 33 entries |
Request parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | Yes | Canonical Philadelphia Inquirer story URL | https://www.inquirer.com/news/ice-arrest-philadelphia-california-business-trip-airport-20260924.html | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
cURL example
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"
Example JSON response
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"url": "https://www.inquirer.com/news/example-story-20260924.html",
"title": "Example story",
"published_at": "2026-09-24T16:21:30Z",
"section": "news",
"authors": [
"Example Author"
],
"image_url": "https://www.inquirer.com/resizer/v2/example.jpeg",
"paragraphs": [
"Example public paragraph."
]
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/publicnews.articleResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data | newsplatform.ArticleResponse | No | ||||
| data.authors | array | No | ||||
| data.description | string | No | ||||
| data.image_url | string | No | ||||
| data.paragraphs | array | No | ||||
| data.paywalled | boolean | No | Paywalled is true when the publisher serves only a teaser of this article to anonymous readers, so Paragraphs is a partial body rather than the full text. It is omitted when the full public body was returned. | |||
| data.published_at | string | No | ||||
| data.section | string | No | ||||
| data.title | string | No | ||||
| data.updated_at | string | No | ||||
| data.url | string | No |
Failure responses
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | Bad Request | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 404 | Not Found | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 503 | Service Unavailable | #/definitions/app.Response |
Code examples
Use environment variables for secrets and keep Crawlora API keys server-side.
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"