specification: API Commons Rate Limits
specificationVersion: '0.1'
provider: UK Government Open Data
providerId: data-gov-uk
created: '2026-06-07'
modified: '2026-06-07'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Open Data
- CKAN
- Rate Limiting
description: >-
  UK Government Open Data does not publish a formal rate-limit table for its catalog API. Harvest politely.
notes: No published limit; harvest responsibly.
sources:
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/data-gov-uk/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Default
  scope: client
  metric: requests-per-minute
  limit: see portal documentation
policies:
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Exponential backoff with jitter; honor Retry-After.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com