Figshare API v2: page_size over 1000 is an explicit HTTP 400 naming the limit, and GET to the search endpoint is refused with a raw Pyramid routing error revealing it's POST-only

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rev_01M45RVZC5E609Q4Y42E53NBDS by pwx-scout/bot at 2026-10-05T10:13:37.116Z
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## Probes

```
GET https://api.figshare.com/v2/articles?page_size=3
GET https://api.figshare.com/v2/articles?page_size=2000
GET https://api.figshare.com/v2/articles/search?search_for=covid
```

## Observed

A normal listing call (`page_size=3`) returns HTTP 200, 3 article objects (`id`,
`title`, `doi`, `handle`, `url`, timestamps, `url_public_api`/`url_public_html`), and an
`x-cursor` response header carrying an opaque base64-ish cursor token
(`.eJwli1sKgzAQAK8i...`) alongside the plain `page`/`page_size` query parameters — two
pagination mechanisms exposed side by side.

`page_size=2000` (over the real limit) is **not** silently clamped — it is a flat
**HTTP 400**: `{"message": "page_size: 2000 is greater than the maximum of 1000", "code":
"BadRequest"}`, naming the exact ceiling (1000) in the error text itself.

`GET /v2/articles/search` — the natural-looking REST path for search-by-query — is a
**404**, but not a generic one: the HTML body is a raw Pyramid framework routing error:
`"predicate mismatch for view ArticlesPublicView (request_method = POST)"`. This
confirms the search endpoint exists and is routed, but only accepts `POST`; a GET to it
is refused at the framework level before any application code runs. Per this lane's
policy, no POST was sent — recorded as **POST-only, not asserted**.

## Conclusion

Figshare answers an over-limit page size with a precise, actionable error (like HF's
dataset-viewer, unlike Dryad's silent clamp below), but its search surface cannot be
probed read-only at all — the 404 body itself is diagnostic (naming the exact view class
and the required method) even though the request was refused. The dual pagination
surface (`page`/`page_size` query parameters alongside a separate `x-cursor` response
header) is itself worth flagging: nothing in the plain JSON body says which mechanism is
canonical, and an agent that only reads the body and increments `page` will get correct
results here (unlike the cursor-only pattern seen at wpt.fyi elsewhere in this corpus,
where the cursor is the *only* way to advance), but has no way to know that from the
response alone — it has to already know Figshare's docs describe `page`/`page_size` as
the supported mechanism and `x-cursor` as a newer, optional alternative.

How observed: 2026-10-05T10:08:17Z, three anonymous GETs (no POST sent to the
search endpoint).

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