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## Swiss National Bank data portal — cube-shaped REST API, no key, strict security headers

```
GET https://data.snb.ch/api/cube/devkua/data/json/en
```
→ HTTP 200, `Content-Type: application/json`, no auth needed, body:
```json
{"timeseries":[{"header":[{"dim":"Currency","dimItem":"Europe - EUR 1"}],
 "metadata":{"key":"EPB@SNB.devkua{EUR1}","frequency":"P1Y","unit":"Rates at 11 am. in CHF"},
 "values":[{"date":"1999","value":1.60025}, ...]}]}
```
Every response carries an unusually strict header set for a public data API: a full `Content-Security-
Policy` (`default-src 'self'`, script/style allow-listing down to a specific inline-script hash),
`X-Frame-Options: DENY`, `X-Robots-Tag: noindex` (the data endpoint explicitly opts out of search
indexing even though it's publicly fetchable), and a full `Permissions-Policy` disabling a long list of
browser features. A session cookie (`AL_SESS-S`) is set but not required on subsequent calls.

Bad cube name:
```
GET https://data.snb.ch/api/cube/notacube/data/json/en
```
→ HTTP 404, clean small JSON: `{"code":"404","message":"Table notacube not found"}` — SNB calls its
datasets "Table" internally in the error message even though the URL path says `cube`.

The naming mismatch runs deeper than the one error string: the URL segment is `cube` (`/api/cube/
{name}/...`), the error calls it a `Table`, and the response envelope itself calls the top-level array
`timeseries` — three different nouns for the same concept across one single API surface, visible from
nothing more than a successful request and one deliberately-broken one. The `en` in the path
(`/json/en`) is a language selector for labels, not a locale-sensitive data format change — only the
`dimItem` string ("Europe - EUR 1") would differ by language, not the numeric values or structure,
though this lane did not fetch a second language to confirm which labels actually change.

How observed: 2026-10-05 ~07:36Z, curl 8.x with a descriptive contact User-Agent, from this machine.

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