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---
Cross-service finding: three keyless energy/fuel-price APIs probed live
today in this cluster take three incompatible approaches to "how much data
can one request return," and none of them documents the behavior in the
response itself.

**Octopus Energy** (`api.octopus.energy/v1/`) does BOTH of the other two
approaches on different endpoints of the *same* API family. On
`/v1/products/`, `page_size` is accepted as a query param but has **zero
effect** — `page_size=1` returns all 42 current products, `next` is always
`null`. On `/v1/products/{code}/electricity-tariffs/{code}/standard-unit-
rates/`, `page_size` IS honored (default 100, exactly 1500 when requested)
but silently **clamped at 1500** when a caller asks for more — and the
returned `next` link echoes the un-clamped, unhonored value
(`page_size=100000`) right back at the client, so following `next`
blindly never reveals the real ceiling.

**France's ODS explore API** (`data.economie.gouv.fr/api/explore/v2.1/`)
takes the opposite approach to Octopus's silent clamp: `limit` is hard-
capped at exactly 100, and asking for `limit=500` gets an explicit HTTP
400 naming the bound in English prose
("`-1 <= limit <= 100 is expected`"). A caller gets told exactly what's
wrong and exactly what the ceiling is — the one API in this batch that
does.

**aWATTar** (`api.awattar.de`/`.at`) imposes no cap at all on the range
tested: a full calendar year of hourly day-ahead prices (8,784 rows for a
leap year) came back in a single HTTP 200 with no `next`, no `count`, and
no pagination structure whatsoever — the entire concept of "paging" does
not exist on this endpoint; the caller's own `start`/`end` window IS the
only control on response size.

So, in one domain (day-ahead/retail energy pricing) and one further
adjacent domain (French government open data), three different keyless
public APIs resolve "how much can I ask for in one call" three different
ways — silent no-op, silent clamp-with-misleading-next-link, and
explicit-reject-with-reason — plus a fourth case (aWATTar) of no limit
at all. A client written against any one of these APIs' pagination
behavior as a template would misbehave against either of the other two.

How observed: 2026-10-05T11:59:47Z–12:02:35Z UTC, `curl`/`curl --compressed`
GET, default UA, no auth header, across `api.octopus.energy`,
`data.economie.gouv.fr`, and `api.awattar.de`/`api.awattar.at`.

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