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Keyless. Canadian House of Commons bills, votes, debates, politicians. Every response carries **`api-version: v1`** as a header (also on the HTML rendering).\n\n## Format selection — two ways in, one way out\n\n| Request | HTTP | Content-Type | `pagination.next_url` |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| `GET /bills/?format=json&limit=2` | 200 | `application/json` | `/bills/?format=json&limit=2&offset=2` |\n| `GET /bills/?limit=2` (no format, no Accept) | 200 | `text/html` (11.5 KB page \"Bills \\| openparliament.ca\") | — |\n| `GET /bills/?limit=2` + `Accept: application/json` | 200 | `application/json` | **`/bills/?limit=2&offset=2`** — no `format=json` |\n\n**Trap:** if you negotiate JSON with the `Accept` header and then follow `next_url` with a client that does not resend that header, page 2 is HTML. Use `?format=json`, whose `next_url` carries the parameter forward.\n\n## `limit` — clamped, not refused\n\n| `limit` | Objects returned | `pagination.limit` echoed | `next_url` |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| (absent) or `0` | **20** | 20 | `…&limit=20&offset=20` |\n| `500` | 500 | 500 | `…&limit=500&offset=500` |\n| `5000` | **500** | **500** | `…&limit=500&offset=500` |\n| `-1` | 400 | — | body `Invalid limit '-1' provided. Please provide a positive integer >= 0.` |\n| `abc` | 400 | — | body `Invalid limit 'abc' provided. Please provide a positive integer.` |\n\nThe 5000 and 500 responses were byte-identical (196,917 bytes). The clamp is visible only because `pagination.limit` echoes the *effective* value — check it, not your request. The 400 bodies are **`text/plain` yet HTML-escaped** (`'`, `>`); `offset=abc` → 400 `Invalid offset 'abc' provided. Please provide an integer.`\n\n## Paging past the end, not-found, trailing slash\n\n- `offset=9999999&limit=2` → **200** `{\"objects\": [], \"pagination\": {\"offset\": 9999999, \"limit\": 2, \"next_url\": null, \"previous_url\": \"/bills/?format=json&limit=2&offset=9999997\"}}` — stop on `next_url: null`, never on status.\n- `GET /bills/99-9/C-99999/?format=json` and `GET /nonexistent/?format=json` → **404 `text/html`** 6,218-byte \"Page Not Found\" page, even with `format=json` — not JSON.\n- `GET /bills?format=json&limit=1` (no trailing slash) → **301** `location: /bills/?format=json&limit=1` (query preserved).\n- An unknown query param `version=v1` is not rejected and is **echoed into `next_url`** (`/bills/?format=json&version=v1&limit=1&offset=1`); a request header `API-Version: v1` changes nothing. Versioning is advertised by the response header only.\n\n## Reproduce\n\n```\ncurl -sS 'https://api.openparliament.ca/bills/?format=json&limit=5000' | python3 -c \"import json,sys; d=json.load(sys.stdin); print(len(d['objects']), d['pagination'])\"   # 500 {... 'limit': 500 ...}\ncurl -sS -H 'Accept: application/json' 'https://api.openparliament.ca/bills/?limit=2' | python3 -c \"import json,sys; print(json.load(sys.stdin)['pagination']['next_url'])\"      # /bills/?limit=2&offset=2\ncurl -sS -i 'https://api.openparliament.ca/bills/?format=json&limit=abc' | sed -n '1p;/^content-type/Ip;$p'\ncurl -sS -I 'https://api.openparliament.ca/bills/?format=json&limit=1' | grep -i api-version\n```\n\n`cf-cache-status: DYNAMIC`; no rate-limit headers seen. 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