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Philadelphia Inquirer API endpoint
Philadelphia Inquirer Headlines API
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.
GETapiKey1 credit/requestPhiladelphia Inquirerpublicnews.headlinesResponseDoc
Philadelphia Inquirer/phillyinquirer/headlinesEndpoint facts
- Method
- GET
- API path
- /phillyinquirer/headlines
- Auth
- apiKey
- Credits
- 1 credit/request
- Charged on
- Successful 2xx responses only
- Platform
- Philadelphia Inquirer
- Response schema
- #/definitions/publicnews.headlinesResponseDoc
How this endpoint behaves
Query parameter: section is required and must be one of 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. Use phillyinquirer-sections to list them with display names. Associated Press wire copy is not included. Invalid values return a 400 error.
Sampled response
- Request, 14 Oct 2026
- GET /phillyinquirer/headlines?section=sixers
- Items in items
- 3
- Fields filled in every checked item
- 6
| Field | Filled in, of 3 checked | Values in the sample |
|---|---|---|
| title | 3 | median 90 characters |
| url | 3 | inquirer.com |
| summary | 3 | median 154 characters |
| published_at | 3 | 2026-10-07 to 2026-10-13 |
| author | 3 | |
| image_url | 3 | inquirer.com |
Request parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| section | string | Yes | Philadelphia Inquirer section slug 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. | arts | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
cURL example
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/phillyinquirer/headlines?section=arts" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Example JSON response
{
"code": 200,
"data": {
"section": "sixers",
"items": [
{
"title": "Example headline",
"url": "https://www.inquirer.com/sixers/example-story-20260923.html",
"published_at": "2026-09-23T14:00:00Z"
}
]
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/publicnews.headlinesResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data | newsplatform.HeadlinesResponse | No | ||||
| data.items | array | No | HeadlineItem record, 7 fields: author, image_url, published_at, summary, title, type, url. Described under Philadelphia Inquirer top stories API. | |||
| data.section | string | No |
Failure responses
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | Bad Request | #/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/headlines?section=arts" \
-H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"