generated: '2026-08-19'
method: probed
source: >-
  Live probes on 2026-08-19. EPFL publishes no rate-limit documentation and returns NO
  rate-limit headers of any kind: a 200 from https://actu.epfl.ch/api/v1/news/?limit=1 carried
  only cache-control: max-age=900, public and strict-transport-security. Both public APIs sit
  behind Cloudflare (server: cloudflare), so any enforcement is at the edge and undeclared.
x-operator: institution
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: EPFL
providerId: epfl
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Rate Limiting
description: >-
  EPFL does not publish a unified public rate-limit table across its APIs. Open
  metadata and harvesting endpoints (OAI-PMH, IIIF, library) may throttle large-scale
  or automated harvesting; clients should harvest politely, honor Retry-After, and
  contact the relevant service for bulk access.
notes: Confirm per-service limits with each API's documentation; harvest responsibly.
sources:
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/epfl/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Default
  scope: client
  metric: requests-per-minute
  limit: see service documentation
  notes: No published global limit; large harvests may be rate-limited.
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