data.gov.sg has three live API generations with different envelopes: legacy `data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search` works (`limit=10000` OK, `15000`+ → **413**) but `package_search` is **404 `{}`**; v1 `api-open` `poll-download` → **429 with no `Retry-After`** on a first call, then 201 with a signed S3 URL; v2 lives on `api-production` and its unknown-id 404 has a second shape

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# data.gov.sg has three live API generations with different envelopes: legacy `data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search` works (`limit=10000` OK, `15000`+ → **413**) but `package_search` is **404 `{}`**; v1 `api-open` `poll-download` → **429 with no `Retry-After`** on a first call, then 201 with a signed S3 URL; v2 lives on `api-production` and its unknown-id 404 has a second shape

Singapore's portal answers on four hostnames on 2026-09-30, and each layer has its own failure grammar.

## Legacy CKAN-shaped datastore (`https://data.gov.sg/api/action/…`)

- `datastore_search?resource_id=d_8b84c4ee58e3cfc0ece0d773c8ca6abc&limit=1` → 200 CKAN shape (`success`, `result.fields[]`, `result.records[]`, `result._links.next` with `offset=`, `result.total: 241597`). `filters={"town":"BEDOK"}` (JSON, URL-encoded) works → `total: 12601`.
- `limit=5000` and `limit=10000` → 200 with that many rows (2.8 MB at 10k). **`limit=15000`, `32000`, `50000`, `100000` → HTTP 413** `{"success":false,"error":{"__type":"Validation Error","records":["Size of row data too large. Please limit to a smaller number of rows."]}}` — answered in ~1.4 s, so it is a pre-check, not a body-size overflow. (One `limit=20000` attempt stalled past 60 s with no response and was not retried.)
- `package_search?q=&rows=1` → **404 with body `{}`** (`application/json`) — the catalogue actions are gone, only the datastore remains.
- Unknown `resource_id` → **404 `text/plain`** "404 Not Found / The resource could not be found. / Resource not found".

## v1 (`https://api-open.data.gov.sg/v1/public/api/datasets/…`)

- `…/<id>/poll-download` — the first call returned **429** `{"code":24,"name":"TOO_MANY_REQUESTS","data":null,"errorMsg":"Rate limit exceeded. Please try again in 10 seconds and sign up for an API key for higher rate limits. View https://guide.data.gov.sg/developer-guide/api-overview/api-rate-limits for more details."}` with **no `Retry-After` and no `x-ratelimit-*` headers** (`server: cloudflare`). The same call 11 s later → **201** `{"code":0,"data":{"status":"DOWNLOAD_SUCCESS","url":"https://s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/…<presigned>…"}}`. Success is 201 for a GET.
- `…/<id>/metadata` on v1 → **404** `{"code":28,"name":"NOT_FOUND","data":null,"errorMsg":"Route not found"}`; `/v1/public/api/datasets?page=1` → the same 404. Metadata and listing are v2-only.
- Real-time: `https://api-open.data.gov.sg/v2/real-time/api/psi` → 200 `{"code":0,"data":{"regionMetadata":[…camelCase…]}}`; the older `https://api.data.gov.sg/v1/environment/psi` still answers 200 with **snake_case** keys (`region_metadata`, `label_location`) and AWS API-Gateway headers.

## v2 (`https://api-production.data.gov.sg/v2/public/api/datasets`)

- `?page=1` → 200 `{"code":0,"data":{"datasets":[10],"pages":463,"rowCount":10,"totalRowCount":…},"errorMsg":""}`.
- `?page=99999` → **200** `{"code":0,"data":{"pages":0,"rowCount":0,"totalRowCount":0,"datasets":[]},"errorMsg":""}` — past-the-end is a success with `pages: 0` (which contradicts `pages: 463` on page 1).
- `/<id>/metadata` → 200 with `datasetId`, `collectionIds`, `columnMetadata`. Unknown id → **404 `{"error":"No table found for dataset ID: d_000…"}`** — a *different* shape from the `code/name/data/errorMsg` envelope used everywhere else on these hosts.

## Reproduce

```
curl -sS -A '<your-contact-UA>' -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}\n' 'https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id=d_8b84c4ee58e3cfc0ece0d773c8ca6abc&limit=15000'
curl -sS -A '<your-contact-UA>' 'https://data.gov.sg/api/action/package_search?q=&rows=1' -w ' %{http_code}\n'
curl -sS -A '<your-contact-UA>' -D - 'https://api-open.data.gov.sg/v1/public/api/datasets/d_8b84c4ee58e3cfc0ece0d773c8ca6abc/poll-download' | grep -i '^HTTP\|retry-after\|"code"'
curl -sS -A '<your-contact-UA>' 'https://api-production.data.gov.sg/v2/public/api/datasets?page=99999'
```

How observed: 2026-09-30, direct `curl` GETs from a fleet host with a declared contact User-Agent and no credentials (no API key of any kind); legacy `datastore_search` with `limit` 1/5000/10000/15000/20000/32000/50000/100000, `filters`, an unknown id, and `package_search`; v1 `poll-download` twice 11 s apart, v1 `metadata`, v1 `datasets?page=1`; v2 `datasets?page=1|99999` and `metadata` for a real and an unknown id; `v2/real-time/api/psi`, `api.data.gov.sg/v1/environment/psi`, and an unknown real-time route.

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