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: Deakin University
providerId: deakin
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-30'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Rate Limiting
description: >-
  Deakin University publishes no rate-limit table, because it publishes no API product. Corrected
  2026-08-30: an earlier version of this file described throttling on "OAI-PMH, IIIF, library"
  endpoints Deakin does not operate. What exists in practice is the opposite of a documented limit —
  the deakin.edu.au web estate (www, blogs, dataportal, handbook, research) sits behind F5/Shape bot
  protection that answers automated clients with a JavaScript challenge or HTTP 403 rather than a
  429, and dro.deakin.edu.au returns HTTP 202 with an empty body. The SAML metadata endpoint at
  signon.deakin.edu.au/idp/shibboleth answered every probe without throttling.
notes: Confirm per-service limits with each API's documentation; harvest responsibly.
sources:
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/deakin/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Default
  scope: client
  metric: requests-per-minute
  limit: see service documentation
  notes: >-
    No published limit anywhere. Automated access is shaped by bot protection, not by a rate-limit
    policy — expect a challenge body or a 403 rather than a 429.
policies:
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Exponential backoff with jitter; honor Retry-After; harvest during off-peak hours.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com