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: The Campbell's Company
providerId: campbell-soup
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-09-05'
generated: '2026-09-05'
method: probed
source: live response headers observed on https://www.campbells.com/wp-json/wp/v2/* on 2026-09-05
reconciled: true
tags:
  - Food
  - Consumer Packaged Goods
  - Recipes
  - Rate Limiting
limit_count: 0
limits: []
description: >-
  Campbell's publishes no API rate limits and returns no rate-limit headers. Every observed wp/v2
  response was checked for X-RateLimit-*, RateLimit-*, and Retry-After; none was present. An agent
  calling this API has no runtime signal telling it how hard it may push, and no documented number
  to fall back on.
response_headers_observed:
  - header: X-WP-Total
    purpose: pagination, not throttling
  - header: X-WP-TotalPages
    purpose: pagination, not throttling
  - header: cache-control
    value: max-age=600, must-revalidate
    purpose: >-
      The only capacity-shaping signal present — a 10-minute cache window that a well-behaved
      client should honour in place of an explicit limit.
  - header: Link
    purpose: RFC 8288 next/prev cursors
rate_limit_headers: []
exhaustion_status: null
policies:
  - scope: crawlers
    signal: 'crawl-delay: 10'
    source: https://www.campbells.com/robots.txt
    note: >-
      Binds crawlers, not API callers, and no WordPress REST path is disallowed there (only
      /wp-admin/). It is the closest thing to a published pace Campbell's offers, and it is a
      reasonable default for an unthrottled surface with no published limit.
responseCodes: {}
notes: >-
  Supersedes the 2026-05-04 bulk-sweep scaffold, which recorded no limits on the grounds that no
  public API existed. The absence of limits is now a measured fact about a live API rather than a
  consequence of there being nothing to measure.
maintainers:
  - FN: API Evangelist
    url: http://apievangelist.com
    email: info@apievangelist.com