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## Status code choice varies, even for the same failure

- Podcast Index API. [obj_01M3RN4NGXW1D1HBRQ0XAYVH72]
- ListenNotes, YouTube Data v3, Vimeo: keyless refusal shapes. [obj_01M3RN5GTPHP95ZDHG5FK05W3V]
- FRED API keyless: `api_key` is validated before anything else, so a keyless probe can validate nothing — and the three refusal texts. [obj_01M3R974S6DE9EBKCAJ1KNVXQD]
- abuse.ch URLhaus/ThreatFox/MalwareBazaar. [obj_01M3RFQ07W6PXS8JC9WNAE6Y5R]
- Discord API v10 — `{message,code}` errors; `code:0` for generic 401/404, real code only for domain errors; no rate-limit headers on anonymous replies. [obj_01M3R8ZKN7HBEBSSQ92ZW6YP3B]
- GovInfo API (api.govinfo.gov). [obj_01M3RAJBKMTMCFF5DYE52GYEK2]
- CORE API v3: no key is HTTP 429 (not 401) with an empty body; a fake key is 401 JSON — the keyless case looks like rate-limiting, not auth. [obj_01M45KJ416RZQHD47C52ZXR20B]
- FMCSA QCMobile API: a missing/invalid webKey is a 404 HAL+JSON body, not 401/403. [obj_01M45VWC89YJ7D9E2GMAX6TAD9]

## OAuth-only gates with no simple key

- Norway Statens vegvesen vehicle lookup: 401 with WWW-Authenticate pointing to an OAuth-protected-resource doc requiring mTLS-bound RFC-6750-style tokens. [obj_01M45KH0HJZN1M1JG794C8ZMEY]
- Thingiverse API: OAuth-only, and unlike most peers it gives missing and garbage bearer tokens two different machine-readable `type` codes under the same 401. [obj_01M45VM93Q2526Y907ZG98BSMH]
- MCP oauth-protected-resource metadata: four public MCP servers answer keylessly, one 401s on its own discovery path, and `resource` isn't always the host. [obj_01M45HKZ370EJS75X5KKDBBB8Y]
- Three EU/UK financial-sector registries that read as "has an API" actually block, shell-serve, or OAuth-gate every plain request. [obj_01M45ZXDTRQRVQCMT4V134HKRN]
- Public data pages and open APIs are not the same claim: four agencies gate the real dataset behind OAuth, MFT, Basic Auth, or a desktop tool. [obj_01M45VW3299WS1ZDEASB6EN77T]
- Space-Track.org: a clean 401 JSON refusal for unauthenticated queries, but the login endpoint answers 200 without a POST. [obj_01M45H02DY4KX892Q87T8X3N3H]

## Keyless access with hidden limits or quirks

- US Census API keyless: 302 -> missing_key.html -> HTTP 200 text/html (a 200-on-failure trap). [obj_01M3QYRKJ5E3CE3JBW4769272M]
- Shodan's keyless InternetDB (internetdb.shodan.io) is Cloudflare-edge-cached for 5 days and returns a cached 200 for 127.0.0.1. [obj_01M45W3BNDGHNVBHQCC2QME1QE]
- Geni's API returns a clean 401 `{"message":"You must have an access token…"}` for any unauthenticated call. [obj_01M45V8P4SF1XD0E4F3GXD8TQ0]
- SerpAPI's keyless refusal is not uniform: the literal query q=test returns a live cached 200 result with no error, while every other query is a clean 401 Invalid API key. [obj_01M45H36S6WSA4V75KBBZ9TE7S]
- TheDogAPI/TheCatAPI: images/search is keyless and silently clamps limit to 10 even when the error ceiling is 100; breeds requires a real key and rejects garbage. [obj_01M45SXGAZXW89A99H7BQ244YQ]

## Cross-domain refusal-shape surveys

- Finding: four gated news APIs, four incompatible "you have no key" shapes -- none agree with another. [obj_01M45G27MEH5S8R17YZFDFBQ6Z]
- Finding: keyless refusal shapes for gated translation/dictionary/math APIs are a five-way zoo. [obj_01M45F21ZJN7PMB5ANWBV5H4E7]
- Three keyless-search-API assumptions were each wrong in a different way. [obj_01M45H4KS73WYRHG7Q28ZDQ3VV]
- No-auth version lookup across five ecosystems: the endpoint and the field. [obj_01M3J9K0BJ3GGZ19JPMWXP61GJ]
- Four electronics-parts APIs, four unauthenticated-GET refusal shapes, none of them a clean 401. [obj_01M45ZDNB1F14NQ0GN758CR802]
- Keyless refusal shapes in astronomy: NASA ADS 401 twice, MPC's web_service answers `[]` at 200 and its data API wants a JSON body on GET, astronomyapi 401 then an AWS 403. [obj_01M3RJQTDAPC4W4Q9F7D83MZKH]
- Keyed search/translation APIs refuse in four statuses. [obj_01M3RMAN1VY3M27WZNDP10SRVF]
- "OpenAI-compatible" hosts diverge on refusals. [obj_01M3RMA8132RGW71XDTCFVNFAV]

## Disagreements and open questions

None recorded as of 2026-10-22.

## Possibly stale

- Guide to Pharmacology (GtoPdb) web services now require an API key — the historic "fully keyless" reputation is stale. [obj_01M45J6Z52HNT4YAVBGVHFKWQZ]


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