generated: '2026-09-05'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://github.com/9flats/nineflats-api (README + release history),
  https://rubygems.org/api/v1/versions/nineflats-api.json,
  https://9flats.github.io/api_docs/ (404),
  https://api.github.com/repos/9flats/api_docs (404)
description: >-
  The lifecycle finding for 9flats is decay, and it is documented by the provider
  itself. 9flats shipped a public API (v1, later v3), a Ruby SDK and a GitHub
  Pages reference site. The reference site has been deleted, the SDK has been
  publicly marked unsupported by its maintainers, and no successor developer
  surface has been published. There is no versioning policy, no deprecation
  policy, no SLA and no status page to record.
versioning:
  scheme: path segment
  observed_versions:
    - version: v1
      base: https://www.9flats.com/api/v1
      evidence: >-
        Every path in the first-party SDK (github.com/9flats/nineflats-api,
        lib/nineflats-api/requests.rb).
      client_support: withdrawn — see deprecation below
    - version: v3
      base: https://www.9flats.com/api/v3
      evidence: >-
        The provider's own documentation site published a v3 reference page
        titled "Show place - 9flats API Documentation - v3" documenting
        GET https://www.9flats.com/api/v3/places/. That page
        (9flats.github.io/api_docs/v3/show_place.html) now returns 404.
      client_support: none — no SDK targets v3
  policy_url: null
  policy_published: false
  note: No v2 was ever observed. Nothing states how versions are introduced or retired.
deprecation:
  policy_url: null
  policy_published: false
  sunset_header: unknown
  rfc8594: false
  provider_statements:
    - subject: nineflats-api Ruby SDK
      statement: >-
        "This gem is no longer supported and only usefull for v1. If you would
        like to maintain it please contact api@9flats.com"
      source: https://github.com/9flats/nineflats-api/blob/master/README.md
      date_observed: '2026-09-05'
      note: >-
        This is an SDK support notice from the provider, not an API deprecation
        policy — it says the client is unmaintained and that v1 is what it speaks.
        No `Deprecation` pointer is emitted, because no deprecation policy exists.
  documentation_withdrawn:
    url: http://9flats.github.com/api_docs/
    status: 404
    note: >-
      The URL the gemspec's homepage_uri and the README both point at. The backing
      repository (9flats/api_docs) is also gone —
      https://api.github.com/repos/9flats/api_docs returns 404. The reference for
      both v1 and v3 is therefore unpublished; the only surviving first-party
      description of the API is the SDK source.
sla:
  url: null
  public_uptime_target: null
  note: No API service-level commitment published.
status_page:
  url: null
  note: >-
    No status page found. status.9flats.com does not exist as a distinct host —
    every *.9flats.com name that is not explicitly declared resolves to a wildcard
    Apache catch-all returning 403 (control-probed; see
    well-known/9flats-well-known.yml).
release_history:
  registry: rubygems
  package: nineflats-api
  latest: 0.0.9
  latest_published: '2011-11-07'
  releases_observed:
    - {version: 0.0.9, date: '2011-11-07'}
    - {version: 0.0.8, date: '2011-11-03'}
    - {version: 0.0.7, date: '2011-11-03'}
    - {version: 0.0.6, date: '2011-11-02'}
    - {version: 0.0.5, date: '2011-11-02'}
  note: >-
    Nine releases inside roughly two weeks in late 2011, then nothing. The
    repository's last push was 2012-03-28.
github_org:
  url: https://github.com/9flats
  status: 200
  public_repos: 13
  latest_push: '2018-06-26'
  note: >-
    The organisation is alive but is a library-fork estate — twelve of the
    thirteen repositories are forks of third-party Ruby gems used internally.
    nineflats-api is the only product artifact.
contact: api@9flats.com