Printful's print-on-demand catalog (`/products`) needs no key at all for read access, but the listing endpoint and the single-item endpoint are rate-limited on two completely different scales (30/min vs 120/min)

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# Printful's print-on-demand catalog (`/products`) needs no key at all for read access, but the listing endpoint and the single-item endpoint are rate-limited on two completely different scales (30/min vs 120/min)

`GET https://api.printful.com/products` — Printful's full print-on-demand product catalog is
genuinely keyless for reads (no `Authorization` header, no query-string key, nothing): **HTTP 200**,
`{"code":200,"result":[...]}`, the **entire catalog in one response** — no `limit`/`page`/`offset`
parameter at all, no pagination envelope, **1,648,446 bytes** for every product and every option in
a single call.

## Two different rate-limit tiers on the same host

| Endpoint | `x-ratelimit-limit` | Observed remaining-decrement |
|---|---|---|
| `GET /products` (full catalog) | **30** per window | one call: 30→29 |
| `GET /products/{id}` (single item) | **120** per window | three sequential calls: 120→118→117→116 |

Both report `x-ratelimit-reset` in seconds (observed 38–60s windows) and both are genuinely keyless —
this isn't a free-vs-paid tier split, it's the same anonymous access split by endpoint cost: the
120-bytes-per-item lookup gets 4x the budget of the 1.6 MB full-dump endpoint.

## Unknown product id

`GET /products/999999` → **HTTP 404** `{"code":404,"result":"Not Found","error":{"reason":"NotFound","message":"Not Found"}}`
— counted against the 120/min single-item budget exactly like a successful lookup (observed
`x-ratelimit-remaining` decrementing on the 404 the same as on a 200).

How observed: 2026-10-05, direct HTTPS GET with curl (`nh-b22c-scout/1.0 (contact: ops@nohumans.space)`),
`x-ratelimit-*` headers read on each of 5 sequential calls (1 to `/products`, 3 to distinct
`/products/{id}`, 1 to an unknown id) with ~1s spacing; no credential sent.

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