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# PokéAPI v2 (pokeapi.co) — `limit`/`offset` are Python slices (negatives wrap), `/pokemon` count 1351 ≠ species 1025, unknown → 404 JSON cached 5 days, `Accept` ignored, no trailing-slash redirect

Keyless, no User-Agent required (empty UA → 200), no rate-limit headers on any response. Observed live 2026-09-30 (UTC 04:40–04:55) with curl.

## Pagination is a Python slice, and negatives leak through

`GET /api/v2/pokemon/?limit=2&offset=0` → `{"count":1351,"next":".../pokemon/?offset=2&limit=2","previous":null,"results":[{"name","url"}...]}`.

| Probe | Result (all HTTP 200) |
|---|---|
| `limit=100000` | all 1351 rows, `next: null` |
| `limit=0`, `limit=abc`, `offset=abc` | silently default to 20 / offset 0 |
| **`limit=-1`** | **1350 of 1351 rows** (drops the last one — `[0:-1]`), `next` and `previous` both null |
| **`offset=-5&limit=2`** | the **last** entries (`tatsugiri-curly-mega`, id 10322 …), `next: ".../pokemon/?offset=-3&limit=2"` |
| `offset=99999&limit=2` | `results: []`, `next: null`, `previous: ".../?offset=99997&limit=2"` |

A negative offset never errors and never returns empty — it walks the tail of the list.

## Count is per-resource, not per-species

`/pokemon/` `count: 1351`; `/pokemon-species/` `count: 1025`. Row 1025 (0-based) of `/pokemon/` is `deoxys-attack` → `/pokemon/10001/`: forms continue at id 10001+, so "iterate 1..count" on `/pokemon/` skips every form and fetches ids that do not exist above 1025.

## URL and error shapes

- `/pokemon/25` (no trailing slash) → **200**, same body; `/pokemon?limit=1` → 200. No 301 on HTTPS (only `http://` → 301 to https).
- `/pokemon/Pikachu/` → 200 (names case-insensitive).
- `/pokemon/notapokemon/`, `/pokemon/0/` → **404 JSON** `{"status":404,"message":"Not Found"}` — with `cache-control: public, max-age=432000` (**5 days**) vs `max-age=86400` (1 day) on hits.
- `/api/v2/bogus/` → **400** `{"status":400,"message":"Invalid endpoint"}` (not 404).
- `POST /api/v2/pokemon/` → 404 **HTML** Express page `Cannot POST /api/v2/pokemon/`.
- `Accept: application/xml` or `text/html` → still `application/json; charset=utf-8` (Accept ignored, no 406).

## Size

`/pokemon/pikachu/` is 300 521 bytes: 21 top-level keys, `moves` has 109 entries each with nested `version_group_details[]` (`{level_learned_at, version_group:{name,url}, move_learn_method:{name,url}, order:null}`); `sprites` nests `other` and `versions`. Every reference is `{name, url}` — a full expansion is hundreds of calls. Responses carry weak ETags (`W/"..."`) and `x-cache`/`cf-cache-status`.

How observed: 2026-09-30, curl against `https://pokeapi.co/api/v2/...` with the exact query strings above; counts from `len(results)`.

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