specification: API Commons Rate Limits
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/RateLimits
provider: Blubrry API
providerId: blubrry-api-restful-api-for-podcast-publishing-statistics
generated: '2026-09-06'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://blubrry.com/developer/api/ , https://blubrry.com/developer/api/oauth-2/ ,
  https://blubrry.com/developer/api/podcaster.yaml , live response headers from
  https://api.blubrry.com/2/media/index.json
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-09-06'
tags:
  - Podcasting
  - Statistics
  - Rate Limiting
description: >-
  Blubrry publishes no rate limits. This file replaces a 2026-05-04 scaffold that asserted
  X-RateLimit-* headers, a 429 status and per-tier quotas that Blubrry does not in fact
  document or return. The developer portal, the OAuth 2 page and the published podcaster.yaml
  contract contain no mention of rate limiting, throttling, quotas or 429; the only stated
  runtime ceiling anywhere is the 1-hour access-token lifetime. A live unauthenticated request
  to https://api.blubrry.com/2/media/index.json returned HTTP 401 with no RateLimit-*,
  X-RateLimit-*, Retry-After or RateLimit-Policy header of any kind. An honest zero.
limit_count: 0
limits: []
headers:
  observed: []
  note: >-
    No rate-limit signalling headers observed on a live response (probed 2026-09-06). Response
    headers were content-type, content-length, date, server, cache-control plus CloudFront
    edge headers.
responseCodes:
  throttled: null
  note: No throttling status code is documented. Documented error codes are 400, 401, 403 and 404.
evidence:
  - url: https://blubrry.com/developer/api/
    status: 200
    finding: No rate limit, throttle, quota or 429 language on the developer portal.
  - url: https://blubrry.com/developer/api/podcaster.yaml
    status: 200
    finding: The published OpenAPI declares no 429 response and no rate-limit headers.
  - url: https://api.blubrry.com/2/media/index.json
    status: 401
    finding: Live response carries no RateLimit-*, X-RateLimit-* or Retry-After header.
recommendation: >-
  Blubrry should publish a documented request ceiling and return RateLimit-Limit /
  RateLimit-Remaining / RateLimit-Reset (RFC 9331 style) with a 429 on exhaustion. An agent
  integrating today cannot back off before it is cut off, because there is nothing to read.