generated: '2026-09-09'
method: probed
source: live response headers from https://www.fmcs.gov/wp-json/wp/v2/posts (2026-09-09)
limit_count: 0
note: >-
  FMCS documents no rate limits, and the API returns no rate-limit signalling of any kind. A live
  unauthenticated response carries no X-RateLimit-*, no RateLimit-* (RFC 9239 draft), no Retry-After and no
  quota header. There is no developer portal or terms page stating a call ceiling. An agent has no runtime
  signal to back off on. The site's robots.txt sets no crawl-delay either — it is a bare Yoast block that
  disallows nothing — so there is no published pacing guidance of any kind. Recorded as an explicit zero
  rather than omitted, so the absence is data.
limits: []
response_headers:
  rate_limit_headers_present: false
  observed:
    - {header: X-WP-Total, value: '57', note: 'pagination, not rate limiting'}
    - {header: X-WP-TotalPages, value: '57', note: 'pagination, not rate limiting'}
    - {header: Link, note: 'RFC 8288 rel="next" / rel="prev"'}
    - {header: 'Cache-Control', value: 'no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate'}
    - {header: 'Allow', value: 'GET'}
    - {header: 'Strict-Transport-Security', value: 'max-age=63072000; includeSubDomains; preload'}
  absent: [X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Reset, RateLimit-Limit, RateLimit-Remaining, RateLimit-Reset, Retry-After]
exhaustion_status: unknown
pagination_ceiling:
  parameter: per_page
  min: 1
  max: 100
  default: 10
  evidence:
    url: 'https://www.fmcs.gov/wp-json/wp/v2/posts?per_page=999'
    status: 400
    body: '{"code":"rest_invalid_param","message":"Invalid parameter(s): per_page","data":{"status":400,"params":{"per_page":"per_page must be between 1 (inclusive) and 100 (inclusive)"}}}'
crawl_guidance:
  source: https://www.fmcs.gov/robots.txt
  status: 200
  directives:
    - {user_agent: '*', disallow: '', crawl_delay: null}
  sitemap: https://www.fmcs.gov/sitemap_index.xml
  note: 'Everything is allowed and no crawl-delay is set. FMCS states no API-specific limit anywhere.'
evidence:
  - {url: 'https://www.fmcs.gov/wp-json/wp/v2/posts?per_page=1', status: 200, checked: '2026-09-09'}
  - {url: 'https://www.fmcs.gov/robots.txt', status: 200, checked: '2026-09-09'}