generated: '2026-09-19'
method: searched
source: >-
  Carter's public surface, searched and probed 2026-09-19. No developer documentation exists in which
  a limit could be published: https://developer.carters.com has no DNS record and
  https://www.carters.com/developers returns 404.
provider: Carter's
providerId: carter
description: >-
  Carter's publishes no rate limits, because it publishes no API. api.carters.com — the storefront's
  own backend host — refuses every anonymous request with a Cloudflare 403 rather than serving a
  response an agent could read limits from, so no runtime signal could be observed either. This is an
  honest zero measured from live responses and a live search, not an unchecked field.
limit_count: 0
limits: []
response_headers:
  observed: []
  checked_for: [RateLimit-Limit, RateLimit-Remaining, RateLimit-Reset, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining,
    X-RateLimit-Reset, Retry-After]
  note: >-
    No response bearing any of these headers was obtainable: every request to api.carters.com and
    www.carters.com is answered by a Cloudflare managed challenge (403, cf-mitigated=challenge)
    before an application response is produced.
exhaustion_status: null
enforcement:
  documented: false
  inferred: >-
    Cloudflare bot management fronts carters.com and api.carters.com and challenges automated clients
    outright. That is access control, not a published or signalled API rate limit, and is recorded as
    inference rather than as a limit.
x-evidence:
  fetched: '2026-09-19'
  probes:
    - {url: 'https://api.carters.com/', status: 403, rate_limit_headers: none}
    - {url: 'https://api.carters.com/openapi.json', status: 403, rate_limit_headers: none}
    - {url: 'https://www.carters.com/', status: 403, rate_limit_headers: none}
    - {url: 'https://developer.carters.com/', status: 0, note: 'NXDOMAIN'}
note: >-
  This file previously carried a "Partner-negotiated limits" entry written by the 2026-05-04 bulk
  sweep, describing throughput under a partner agreement that has no public existence. Replaced with
  the measured zero.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com