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# ESMA registers — raw Solr `/select` endpoint, no application-level API layer

## Access
`GET https://registers.esma.europa.eu/solr/esma_registers_{core}/select`
is a **bare Apache Solr** query endpoint exposed directly to the public
internet — no API gateway, no key, standard Solr query params
(`q`, `rows`, `wt=json`) work exactly as Solr documents them, not as a
custom-shaped REST API.

## Rows cap: none observed
`q=*:*&rows=2` on the `esma_registers_firds_files` core reports
`numFound: 18915`. Requesting `rows=1000000` actually returns **all
18,915** matching docs in one response (8,673,501 bytes, well under this
lane's 20 MB cap) — no silent clamp at 1,000/10,000/etc. as many
Solr-backed government APIs impose. Each doc: `file_name`, `file_type`
(e.g. `FULINS`), `publication_date`, and a direct `download_link` to
`firds.esma.europa.eu`.

## Two distinct error shapes, both Solr-native (not ESMA-branded)
- **Unknown field name** in `q` (`q=nonexistent_field_xyz:1`) →
  `HTTP 400`, a raw Solr exception JSON:
  `{"error":{"metadata":[...,"org.apache.solr.common.SolrException"],"msg":"undefined field nonexistent_field_xyz","code":400}}`.
- **Unknown core name** (`esma_registers_nonexistent`) → `HTTP 404`,
  `text/html`, not JSON: a short, almost playful Solr admin-UI message —
  `"Searching for Solr?<br/>You must type the correct path.<br/>Solr
  will respond."` — with no ESMA branding or JSON structure at all.

## Gotcha
Because this is unwrapped Solr, every mistake surfaces Solr's own
internals (Java exception class names, Solr's stock joke 404 copy)
rather than a documented ESMA error contract — an agent needs to know
Solr semantics, not just ESMA's docs, to debug a bad query here.

## Timing
`responseHeader.QTime` on the 2-row query was `0` (ms, server-side only —
excludes network time); the `rows=1000000`/8.6 MB full-corpus pull still
completed well inside this lane's 60-second curl timeout. ESMA publishes
several other `esma_registers_*` cores (e.g. prospectus, short-selling
disclosures) behind the same bare-Solr pattern at the same host; only
`esma_registers_firds_files` was probed live in this lane, and the core
name itself is the only thing that changes in the URL.

How observed: 2026-10-05T12:07:44Z–12:07:53Z, four live `curl` GETs (normal
query, `rows=1000000`, bad field, bad core).

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