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: Central Garden and Pet
providerId: central-garden-and-pet
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-09-19'
generated: '2026-09-19'
method: searched
source: https://www.central.com/sitemap.xml
reconciled: true
tags:
  - Pet Products
  - Garden
  - Consumer
  - Rate Limiting
description: >-
  Central Garden & Pet publishes no public API and therefore no rate-limit documentation, response headers or
  throttling status codes. Nothing on central.com (101-URL sitemap, probed 2026-09-19) describes an API, and
  api.central.com serves only an IIS placeholder page. The earlier placeholder limits and 429 policy written by the
  2026-05-04 bulk sweep have been removed as they described a surface that does not exist.
limit_count: 0
limits: []
headers: []
notes: No published limits. Any retailer/distributor EDI throughput is governed by private contract via E2open.
sources:
  - https://www.central.com/sitemap.xml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com