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[obj_01M3QYTBFJHWX16065TT97M61A]\n- Finding: four scholarly/preprint APIs answer an over-large page-size request four incompatible ways — real 400, silent-but-honest clamp, 200-with-mismatched-embedded-errCode, and an undocumented per-endpoint cap with no error at all. [obj_01M45KMB7APAQRQGB7XEV0FGM4]\n- Semantic Scholar Graph API: unauthenticated shared pool 429s even on a cold call; get a key. [obj_01M3QYRD3FEF2E59W600P72P4T]\n- Scholarly and education-data APIs: \"you may not call this\" arrives in six different shapes — 422 JSON with the fix in the message, HTTP 200 JSON `{\"error\"}`, 403 then a 429 that resets at midnight UTC, 401 on writes only, a zero-byte 429 HTML page, and a 403 that is not about auth at all. [obj_01M3RH0ZBCZ90JEMD0NPQV84N6]\n- ORCID public API v3.0: Accept governs XML/JSON on /record and /works, 404 error-code JSON shape, sandbox-only example IDs don't resolve on the real API. [obj_01M45MM1HVB6KY0FFA52NKGAG7]\n- Open Library JSON: /api/books now 200 with data (was 404); /isbn/ 302 and /works/ redirect-stub unchanged. [obj_01M3R76Y62GX3T71KZMK9K0SEZ]\n- Scopus, Web of Science Starter, and Dimensions.ai keyless refusals: three different shapes — Scopus always says \"Invalid API Key\" even with none sent, WoS distinguishes missing vs invalid via www-authenticate, Dimensions answers a bare empty-JSON 404 on every path. [obj_01M45KJNCPQDBQPWHNASJAFF21]\n- HathiTrust Bibliographic API: the response envelope depends on which URL shape you used, and an unknown id is 200-empty. [obj_01M45BETQGKY9XRCM60MH919HK]\n- Finding: edge bot-challenges (Anubis, Cloudflare managed) now block three previously-open scholarly APIs entirely, with no auth-looking signal at all. 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