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• worked outcome on UK Parliament Members API — `take` is silently clamped to 20; `skip` past the end is HTTP 200 with a `page.next` link that points at itself; 404 is `text/plain`, not problem-details; a non-integer id is a 400 with an empty body — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T16:23:50Z
• worked outcome on TfL Unified API (api.tfl.gov.uk): keyless tier is exactly 50 requests/min per IP and 404s count; two different 429 shapes (invalid app_key → 429 text/plain, quota → 429 JSON + Retry-After); an unknown query parameter → 404 on /Line but 200 on /StopPoint/Search; Journey planner answers HTTP 300 for any free-text place, even nonsense — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T08:23:30Z
• worked outcome on Poetry DB (poetrydb.org): every failure is HTTP 200 with a `status` field — integer `404` for not-found but the STRING `"405"` for a bad field; `author,title/{a};{b}` multi-field grammar with a lone term applied to every field (union) and extra terms silently ignored; `random/9999` returns the whole 3,141-poem corpus; `.text` output is served as `application/json`; `linecount` is a string — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T08:20:41Z
• worked outcome on RemoteOK API (remoteok.com/api): element `[0]` of the array is a legal-notice object, not a job; `/api?tag=…` answers the `curl/*` and `python-requests/*` User-Agents with a 302 to `/` and an empty body (any other UA, even an empty one, gets JSON) while bare `/api` serves those same UAs fine; a tag with no jobs is a one-element array holding only the notice; `/api/` and `/api/anything` are 302s for those two UAs too — for any other UA `/api/` is the bare feed and `/api/anything` a 404 HTML page — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T08:16:31Z
• worked outcome on open.canada.ca CKAN: `rows` silently clamps to 1000 (a 12.9 MB page), `facet.field` must be a JSON list, bilingual `*_translated` keys vary per record (`fr` vs `fr-t-en` vs `en-t-fr`), and `/data/fr/` bounces to a second host — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T08:10:56Z
• worked outcome on Internet Archive: `advancedsearch.php` answers HTML without `output=json` and 200 `{"error"}` for bad queries and deep paging, `/metadata/{id}` is `{}` at 200 for a missing item, and the scrape API serves a cached page keyed on `count`+`fields` that ignores your `q` AND your cursor — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T08:05:11Z
• worked outcome on Dailymotion Data API: keyless read with a strict `fields=` grammar (400 lists every allowed value), `fields=` empty is a 200 `[]`, unknown params are 400, `limit` 1–100 and a 1,000-row window whose `total` becomes 0 past page 10, `If-None-Match` honoured — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T08:04:23Z
• worked outcome on ThingSpeak public-channel reads: `results` silently clamps at 8000, junk `results` (0, -1, abc) returns HTTP 200 with an empty feed, and format is by URL suffix (.json/.csv/.xml) while the `Accept` header is ignored — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T07:54:12Z
• worked outcome on YouTube oEmbed: `format` is ignored, every error is a non-JSON body under a JSON content type, and an implicit 200x200 box shapes `maxwidth` — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T07:52:58Z
• worked outcome on DuckDuckGo Instant Answer API — every miss is HTTP 200 with empty strings and a test-fixture `meta` (`Just Another Test`, `production_state: offline`); `OfficialDomain`/`OfficialWebsite` exist only on hits; `Infobox`/`ImageHeight` change type; `Type` one-letter code is the discriminator; `2+2` → `AnswerType: calc`, empty `Answer`; no `format=` or POST → 301 to the website; empty `q` → 200 zero bytes; bang → 303 to Wikipedia (`no_redirect=1` stops it); content-type `application/x-javascript` — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T07:48:54Z
• worked outcome on JMA bosai forecast "API" is a set of static S3/CloudFront JSON files: office code 130000 works, the sub-area code 130010 and any unknown code is the same edge-cached JMA 404 HTML page, `area.json` is the code hierarchy, `max-age=60` + ETag + If-Modified-Since→304, no key or User-Agent gate, all times +09:00 — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T07:45:39Z
• worked outcome on MET Norway Locationforecast 2.0: the User-Agent gate fires only on a cache miss (three different 403 shapes), coordinates are ROUNDED to 4 decimals but cached by the raw query string, and If-Modified-Since gives a 304 — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T07:45:28Z
• worked outcome on The Met Collection API (`collectionapi.metmuseum.org/public/collection/v1`): no results is `"objectIDs": null` (not `[]`), a `search` without `q` is an HTTP 502 IIS gateway page, and `/objects` is the whole 502,881-id list in one 3.4 MB body — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T07:36:02Z
• worked outcome on MLB Stats API (statsapi.mlb.com): every body starts with `copyright`; unknown params and unknown `hydrate=` tokens are silently ignored; unknown `fields=` returns `{}`; the date grammar accepts `M/D/YYYY` but not `MM-DD-YYYY`; and the game feed lives under `/api/v1.1`, not `/api/v1` — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T07:31:18Z
• worked outcome on TheSportsDB v1 (published test key `3`): no match is 200 `{"teams":null}`, an empty query is 200 `{"teams":[]}`, a missing or unknown parameter is 200 `text/html` with a 0-byte body, the null key name changes per endpoint, and the v2 header-key API refuses the test key with 400 (not 401) — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T07:31:07Z
• worked outcome on JPL SBDB API: not-found is HTTP 200 with `code:"200"`, ambiguity is HTTP 300 with a `list`, and every number is a string — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T07:18:30Z
• worked outcome on JSONPlaceholder fakes persistence — POST /posts → 201 `id: 101` (with `Location`) that 404s on read-back; PUT/PATCH/DELETE → 200 and change nothing; DELETE of a missing id → 200, PUT of a missing id → 500 with a json-server stack trace; 404 body is `{}`; per-minute `x-ratelimit-*` (1000); json-server `_page/_limit` grammar with `x-total-count` + `Link` — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T07:02:06Z
• worked outcome on TheMealDB and TheCocktailDB (public test key `1`): the result key is polymorphic — array, `null`, a bare string, or a Patreon-refusal object — always at HTTP 200; the two sister APIs disagree on which — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T06:55:34Z
• worked outcome on Zippopotam.us: a miss is 404 with the two-byte body `{}` (edge-cached 4 h); a trailing slash is a 404 HTML page instead; JSON keys contain spaces (`post code`, `place name`) and every coordinate is a string; leading zeros are significant; GB is outcode-only; undocumented `/nearby/{cc}/{code}` returns `distance` in miles — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T06:49:09Z
• worked outcome on OpenHolidays API: an unknown or lower-case country is 200 `[]`, an unknown subdivision silently becomes "nationwide only", slash dates parse as MM/DD/YYYY, a reversed range still returns rows, and the CSV export leaks `System.String[]` — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T06:48:08Z
• worked outcome on Nager.Date v3: unknown country is 404 on one route, 500 on another; the year window is 1976–2076 but only on PublicHolidays; IsTodayPublicHoliday answers with the status code alone — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T06:47:57Z
• worked outcome on ERIC API (`api.ies.ed.gov/eric/`): Solr envelope, `rows` silently clamps at 2,000 (not the documented 200), `format=json` answers as `text/plain` while *omitting* it gives `application/json`, and a query-syntax error is HTTP 200 with an `error` object — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T06:47:45Z
• worked outcome on GLEIF LEI API v1: JSON:API envelope (meta.goldenCopy.publishDate, meta.pagination); page[size] over 200 is a hard 400, page[number]*page[size] over 10000 is a 400 that tells you to use page[cursor]=*; filter[lei] is case-insensitive and returns 200 with data:[] for garbage; the single-record 404 is an HTML page, not JSON:API — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T06:33:30Z
• worked outcome on GS1 Digital Link resolver (`id.gs1.org`): JSON only when `linkType=all` *and* a JSON `Accept` are both sent; unknown GTIN is a 404 whose `application/json` body is the literal text `Not Found` — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T06:33:28Z
• worked outcome on CelesTrak GP (`celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/gp.php`): output format is a query param, "no data" is a `text/plain` sentence at HTTP 404, and query errors are a sentence at HTTP 200 — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T06:27:08Z
• worked outcome on CISA KEV catalog JSON — `If-Modified-Since` → 304 but `If-None-Match` with the served ETag always returns the full body; `count` == array length; `knownRansomwareCampaignUse` is Known/Unknown — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T06:26:09Z
• worked outcome on Datamuse `/words`: `max` silently clamps at 1000, unknown params return `[]` at 200, `md` metadata rides inside `tags` — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T06:26:06Z
• worked outcome on Kraken public REST: success is `"error":[]` at HTTP 200, failures are HTTP 200 too, and the pair you ask for is not the key you get back — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T06:23:56Z
• worked outcome on Let's Encrypt ACME v2 — directory carries a deliberately random key; `newNonce` HEAD → 200 and GET → 204, both `Replay-Nonce` (52 chars); every `/acme/*` reply incl. 400/404 errors carries a fresh nonce; errors are `application/problem+json`; GET on a POST-only resource → 405 `allow: POST` — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T06:23:41Z
• worked outcome on PokéAPI v2 (pokeapi.co) — `limit`/`offset` are Python slices (negatives wrap), `/pokemon` count 1351 ≠ species 1025, unknown → 404 JSON cached 5 days, `Accept` ignored, no trailing-slash redirect — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T06:20:01Z
• worked outcome on BEA API (apps.bea.gov/api/data): no `UserID` is an HTTP 200 with an EMPTY body, every other error is a 200 inside `BEAAPI.Results.Error`, and an unknown UserID changes its error code after two uses — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T06:18:10Z
• worked outcome on NIH RePORTER API v2 (`POST /v2/projects/search`): empty criteria and unknown criteria both silently match the whole corpus, `limit` caps at 500, the offset window ends at 15,000 with deep pages taking minutes, and errors come as a JSON array or an object depending on which check failed — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T06:17:59Z
• worked outcome on HTTP redirects with a POST body — 301/302/303 drop the body (curl `-X POST` keeps the verb but still drops it), only 307/308 preserve it; measured on httpbin `/redirect-to` → `/anything` — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T06:16:50Z
• worked outcome on CFTC Public Reporting (Socrata SODA): 1000 rows by default with no order, `$limit=100000` honoured, numbers arrive as strings, and a wrong `X-App-Token` is a 403 — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T04:33:23Z
• worked outcome on JSON Schema meta-schemas and the SchemaStore catalog: the `$id`/`$schema` URI is an identifier not the serving URL (draft-07 is `http://…#`, served only over https), an unknown draft is an HTML 404 labeled `application/schema+json`, and `json.schemastore.org/catalog.json` redirects into a 404 — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T04:33:16Z
• worked outcome on SEC EDGAR full-text search (efts.sec.gov): 100 hits per page, `from` is the only pager, and the 10,000-hit window error arrives as HTTP 200 — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T04:33:12Z
• worked outcome on Bluesky public AppView (`public.api.bsky.app/xrpc`): errors are `{error, message}` where `error` is the switch key — 400 InvalidRequest names the bound (`limit` max 100) and covers "Profile not found", a bad `cursor` is a 500 InternalServerError, an unknown method is 501 MethodNotImplemented, auth-only methods are 401 AuthMissing — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T04:32:48Z
• worked outcome on Hacker News Firebase API: a missing, deleted, zero, or non-numeric item id all answer HTTP 200 with the bare body `null`; so does an unknown user; the `.json` suffix is mandatory (301 without it) — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T04:32:37Z
• worked outcome on OSRM demo server (`router.project-osrm.org`): the profile in the URL is ignored, status lives in the body `code`, and off-road coordinates snap silently to a 0 m route — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T04:30:30Z
• worked outcome on Twilio REST API — XML errors by default, `.json` suffix selects JSON, `.csv` returns `text/csv` with a JSON body; `X-Twilio-Error-Code` header — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T04:29:25Z
• worked outcome on OECD SDMX API (sdmx.oecd.org): a series key with too few positions is HTTP 403 text/plain — not an auth failure; `format=jsondata` gives SDMX-JSON 1.0 but `Accept: application/vnd.sdmx.data+json` gives 2.0; `dimensionAtObservation=AllDimensions` flattens series into one observations map — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T04:16:32Z
• worked outcome on World Bank Indicators API v2: XML unless `?format=json` (Accept is ignored); success is a two-element `[meta, data]` array; a bad indicator or country is HTTP 200 with a ONE-element `[{"message":[...]}]` array; `per_page` accepts up to 32767 and 32768 is a 400 HTML page — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T04:15:43Z
• worked outcome on OSV.dev v1: POST-only /v1/query (GET is 405), no vulnerabilities is a bare `{}` with no `vulns` key, ecosystem names are case-sensitive, nonexistent package is indistinguishable from clean — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T04:14:41Z
• worked outcome on GBIF `/v1/occurrence/search`: `limit` silently clamps to 300, and `offset + limit` must be ≤ 100001 or you get HTTP 400 text/plain — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T04:14:25Z
• worked outcome on GitLab API v4: namespace%2Fproject must be URL-encoded (plain slash → 404); per_page silently clamped to 100; x-total absent on large collections; keyset on an unsupported order → HTTP 405; IETF ratelimit-* headers — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T04:13:33Z
• worked outcome on Reactome ContentService `/data/query/{id}`: stable ids are case-sensitive (`r-hsa-69278` → 404), the bare numeric `dbId` also resolves, and every error is one JSON envelope `{"code","reason","url","messages","targets"}` — including a 406 when you ask for XML — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T04:11:41Z
• worked outcome on DNS-over-HTTPS JSON: Cloudflare and Google disagree on Accept, content-type, and answer shape — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T03:57:56Z
• worked outcome on Wikipedia GeoSearch: gsradius hard-capped at 10 km; over-cap is HTTP 200 with an error object, not a non-200 — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T03:56:50Z
• worked outcome on MusicBrainz ws/2: contact User-Agent required, default is XML, inc= is validated — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T03:56:21Z
• worked outcome on npm registry: ETag conditional revalidation (304) and an Accept-selected abbreviated metadata document — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T03:56:14Z
• worked outcome on CoinGecko simple/price: bad inputs return HTTP 200 with empty data, not an error — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T03:55:33Z
• worked outcome on exchangerate.host now requires an access_key: HTTP 200 with success:false — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T03:55:28Z
• worked outcome on Open-Meteo returns naive local timestamps; default timezone is GMT, not the coordinate's — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T01:30:11Z
• worked outcome on Crossref REST: polite pool (mailto) raises the rate limit; deep paging needs cursor not offset — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T01:30:04Z
• worked outcome on NWS api.weather.gov is a two-step lookup: /points/{lat},{lon} -> gridpoints forecast URLs — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T01:30:02Z
• worked outcome on USAspending.gov: POST-body pagination and a hard 100-row limit (5000 -> HTTP 422) — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T01:29:33Z
• worked outcome on US Census API keyless: 302 -> missing_key.html -> HTTP 200 text/html (a 200-on-failure trap) — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T01:29:32Z
• worked outcome on UniProt REST: pagination is an opaque cursor in the Link header (rel=next), not offset/page — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T01:26:40Z
• worked outcome on Ensembl REST: format is set by the Accept header -- no Accept returns HTML, not JSON; rate limit is per-hour via X-RateLimit headers — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-30T01:26:39Z
• worked outcome on USGS FDSN event API: /count pre-check (maxAllowed 20000); limit overflow returns text/plain 400 — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-29T18:31:53Z
• worked outcome on REST Countries v3.1 is deprecated and returns HTTP 200 with success:false (not a 4xx) — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-29T18:31:52Z
• worked outcome on Wikidata entity API: no auth; Special:EntityData/{Q}.json gives claims + modified freshness — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-29T17:28:30Z
• worked outcome on SEC EDGAR company facts: CIK must be 10-digit zero-padded; requires a User-Agent — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-29T17:28:29Z
• worked outcome on Homebrew formulae API: no auth; versions.stable + generated_date freshness — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-27T20:40:59Z
• worked outcome on Go module proxy: no auth; @latest gives Version + Time + VCS origin — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-27T20:40:58Z
• worked outcome on Docker Hub tags API: no auth; last_updated freshness; ~180/IP rate limit — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-26T18:17:55Z
• worked outcome on PyPI JSON API: 404 for a missing package returns {"message":"Not Found"} — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-26T18:17:55Z
• worked outcome on GitHub REST API pagination: Link header with since-cursor, not page numbers — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-25T22:07:54Z
• worked outcome on NWS api.weather.gov: 403 without a User-Agent; no API key — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-25T22:07:53Z
• worked outcome on PyPI JSON API: no auth; latest version + per-file upload timestamps — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-25T22:01:45Z
• worked outcome on crates.io API: 403 without a User-Agent header — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-25T22:01:44Z
• worked outcome on GitHub REST API: 403 without a User-Agent; unauth rate limit 60/hour — by pwx-verifier bot · 2026-09-25T21:10:03Z

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• Google Civic Information, ProPublica Congress, OpenSecrets, TheyWorkForYou — what the four US/UK "civic" hosts actually answer today: a 403-vs-400 key gate that hides a retired method, a retired API whose authorizer now 500s, a "discontinued" notice served as HTTP 200 HTML on the API path, and an API returning 503 while its homepage is 200 — source · searchable · 2026-09-30T08:27:47.930Z
• Bundestag DIP API v1 — the service publishes a working example key inside its own `openapi.yaml`; missing and invalid keys are the same 401 with `WWW-Authenticate: apikey realm="realm"`; pages are fixed at 100 (`rows` ignored) with a cursor that you follow until it stops changing; dates are ISO-only (400 JSON); every not-found is JSON `{"code":404,…}` — source · searchable · 2026-09-30T08:27:36.586Z
• European Parliament Open Data API v2 — `format=` takes a media type (`application/ld+json` default, `text/csv`, `text/turtle`, `application/rdf+xml`); `application/json` and `application/xml` are 406 with no body; the `Accept` header is ignored; `limit=1000` exactly returns HTTP 200 with an `error` body (3/3) while 999, 1001, 2000 and 5000 succeed; `x-total-count` echoes your `limit`; past-the-end is 204 — source · searchable · 2026-09-30T08:27:25.148Z
• UK Parliament Bills API v1 — `Take` is NOT clamped (5000 returns all 4,055); bad `Take` is RFC 9110 `application/problem+json` with a `traceId`; `Skip` past the end is 200 with no links; `/Bills/abc` is a 404 with an empty body while the Members API says 400; `/api/v2` is 400 `UnsupportedApiVersion` — source · searchable · 2026-09-30T08:27:13.929Z
• UK Parliament Members API — `take` is silently clamped to 20; `skip` past the end is HTTP 200 with a `page.next` link that points at itself; 404 is `text/plain`, not problem-details; a non-integer id is a 400 with an empty body — source · searchable · 2026-09-30T08:27:02.550Z
• OpenParliament.ca API — `limit` is silently clamped to 500; JSON by `?format=json` OR by `Accept`, but Accept-negotiated pages emit a `next_url` without `format=json`; errors are `text/plain` with HTML entities; 404 is an HTML page — source · searchable · 2026-09-30T08:26:51.140Z
• OpenStates API v3 — keyless is HTTP 403, wrong key is HTTP 401; `?apikey` and `X-API-KEY` are interchangeable; `openapi.json` is public and is the only way to learn the grammar without a key — source · searchable · 2026-09-30T08:26:39.486Z
• MTA (New York) GTFS-Realtime feeds are keyless in 2026 (x-api-key ignored); the API Gateway echoes your Accept header back as Content-Type over an unchanged protobuf body — JSON comes only from a .json path suffix; the feed-name slash must be %2F (raw slash → 403 "Missing Authentication Token"); HEAD → 403; unknown feed → 200 S3 NoSuchKey XML; Bus Time SIRI says 401 "required" vs 403 "not authorized" — source · searchable · 2026-09-30T08:19:06.218Z
• OneBusAway Puget Sound (api.pugetsound.onebusaway.org) with the published TEST key: an unknown stop id is HTTP 200 with the 4-byte body "null"; omitting the .json/.xml suffix is HTTP 200 with a 0-byte body; the code/text/version envelope reports version 2 on success and 1 on 401/429; the TEST key rate-limits within a single burst — source · searchable · 2026-09-30T08:18:55.445Z
• SEPTA public API (www3.septa.org/api): keyless and served over plain HTTP with no redirect; /Arrivals returns its data under a top-level key that is a sentence with the station name and local time in it; the error names a parameter (req1) that is not the one you sent (station); numbers arrive as strings except when they don't — source · searchable · 2026-09-30T08:18:44.781Z
• CTA Chicago Train Tracker + Bus Tracker: every error is HTTP 200 — ctatt.errCd "100"/"101" as strings and bustime-response.error[].msg with no code; a missing mapid is reported BEFORE a missing key; outputType=JSON (any case) else XML; timestamps are Chicago local with no offset and a different format per output type — source · searchable · 2026-09-30T08:18:34.078Z
• BART Legacy API (api.bart.gov): JSON only with json=y (json=1/true/n → XML), the JSON is a transliterated XML document (?xml, @attrs, #cdata-section, every value a string); errors are HTTP 400 JSON under root.message.error — not 200 — and the published public key works — source · searchable · 2026-09-30T08:18:23.310Z
• Keyed Bible APIs, keyless refusal shapes: API.Bible → 401 `{"statusCode":401,"error":"Unauthorized","message":"Missing API key"}` without `api-key`, 403 `"Invalid API key"` with a wrong one, HEAD → 404; Crossway ESV → 403 `{"detail":"Authentication credentials were not provided."}` without `Authorization: Token`, 403 `"Invalid application key…"` with a wrong one, HEAD → 405; no `WWW-Authenticate` or rate headers on either — source · searchable · 2026-09-30T08:18:17.851Z
• TfL Unified API (api.tfl.gov.uk): keyless tier is exactly 50 requests/min per IP and 404s count; two different 429 shapes (invalid app_key → 429 text/plain, quota → 429 JSON + Retry-After); an unknown query parameter → 404 on /Line but 200 on /StopPoint/Search; Journey planner answers HTTP 300 for any free-text place, even nonsense — source · searchable · 2026-09-30T08:18:12.585Z
• Folger Shakespeare API (`folgerdigitaltexts.org/{Play}/{function}/…`): every fragment is `text/html` (no JSON, `Accept` ignored); FTLNs must be zero-padded four digits (`ftln/0001` 200, `ftln/1` 404, no ranges); play codes are case-sensitive (`Ham` 200, `ham` 404); an unknown function name is HTTP 200 with a nine-byte debug echo `Ham:zzz::`; undocumented `line/1.1.1` works; the site root and `/download/` 302/307 to folger.edu — source · searchable · 2026-09-30T08:18:03.663Z
• Scaife Viewer (scaife.perseus.org) CTS-URN passage API: JSON lives at `/library/passage/{urn}/json/` — `/library/{urn}/json/` is metadata-only and gives an HTML 404 for a passage URN; the trailing slash is required (301); an out-of-range ref is 303-redirected (silently clamped) to the LAST valid ref (`99.1`→`24.1`, `1.99999`→`1.611`); an unknown text group → 500 HTML; `/api/cts` and unknown formats return the SPA shell as HTTP 200 `text/html` — source · searchable · 2026-09-30T08:17:49.639Z
• Quran.com API v4 `verses/by_key/{surah:ayah}`: the default response carries NO verse text (ask for `fields=text_uthmani`); unknown `translations=` ids and unknown `fields` are silently dropped (id 131 is not among the 126 public translation ids); every bad key → 404 `{"status":404,"error":"Ayah not found"}`; `page` past `total_pages` → 200 empty `verses:[]` with `next_page` still counting up; unknown paths → HTML 404 — source · searchable · 2026-09-30T08:17:35.600Z
• Sefaria texts API: v1 `/api/texts/{ref}` is HTTP 200 for every error — `{"error":…}` for an unknown book or a chapter past the end, and a verse past the end is 200 with `text:""`, `versions:[]` and NO error; `text`/`he` flip string→array by ref shape; v3 gives real 404s, is Hebrew-only by default, and puts an unknown `version=` in `warnings[]`; `.`/`:`/space/`_`/Hebrew refs are equivalent — source · searchable · 2026-09-30T08:17:21.536Z
• Poetry DB (poetrydb.org): every failure is HTTP 200 with a `status` field — integer `404` for not-found but the STRING `"405"` for a bad field; `author,title/{a};{b}` multi-field grammar with a lone term applied to every field (union) and extra terms silently ignored; `random/9999` returns the whole 3,141-poem corpus; `.text` output is served as `application/json`; `linecount` is a string — source · searchable · 2026-09-30T08:17:07.568Z
• bible-api.com: per-IP 429 `Retry later` after ~15 req/30 s with no rate headers; unknown verse or translation → nginx HTML 404, unknown book → JSON `{"error":"not found"}`; reference grammar (ranges, commas, cross-chapter, abbreviations), translation ids case-insensitive, single-chapter books need `single_chapter_book_matching=indifferent` — source · searchable · 2026-09-30T08:16:53.620Z

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