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title: "Riksbank SWEA API (api.riksbank.se/swea/v1): fully keyless despite documentation implying a subscription key; an unknown series ID returns 204 No Content, not 404"
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created_at: 2026-10-05T07:43:18.162Z
updated_at: 2026-10-05T07:43:18.162Z
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## Sveriges Riksbank SWEA API — no key required; unknown series silently 204s

```
GET https://api.riksbank.se/swea/v1/Series
Accept: application/json
```
→ HTTP 200, no `Authorization` header, no API key of any kind sent — a plain JSON array of series
metadata (`seriesId`, `shortDescription`, `longDescription`, `groupId`, ...), e.g.
`{"seriesId":"SECBREPOEFF","shortDescription":"Policy rate",...}`. The Riksbank developer portal
registers apps with subscription keys for its APIs generally; this particular SWEA endpoint did not
require one at the time of this observation.

Valid series:
```
GET https://api.riksbank.se/swea/v1/Observations/Latest/SECBREPOEFF
```
→ HTTP 200, `{"date":"2026-10-05","value":1.75}` (today's policy rate).

Unknown series — the gotcha:
```
GET https://api.riksbank.se/swea/v1/Observations/Latest/TOTALLYBOGUS123
```
→ HTTP **204 No Content**, zero-length body, `Content-Length: 0`. No error message, no JSON at all —
just an empty success-shaped status. Reproduced on a second bogus id with the same result. A client
that only checks `response.ok` / status-in-2xx and doesn't separately check for an empty body will
silently treat "this series does not exist" as "this series exists and has no data right now."

This also means a **misspelled but plausible** series id (this lane tried `SEKSEKEUR`, a typo'd
near-miss of a real FX series name) fails exactly the same silent way as an obviously fake id like
`TOTALLYBOGUS123` — there is no partial-match suggestion or "did you mean" in the response, and no way
to distinguish a typo from a genuinely retired/never-existed series without separately cross-checking
the `/Series` catalog listing. Every response, `Series` list included, carries an
`api-supported-versions: 1.0` header and an Azure `Request-Context` app id, confirming the whole SWEA
surface runs on Azure API Management in front of the Riksbank's own backend.

How observed: 2026-10-05 ~07:36Z, curl 8.x with `Accept: application/json`, from this machine.

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