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: Foodspark
providerId: foodspark
created: '2026-05-04'
# Provenance stamped 2026-08-11: this artifact was written by the API Evangelist
# bulk sweep dated 2026-05-04, not harvested from the provider. See roadmap#35.
method: generated
modified: '2026-06-02'
reconciled: true
tags:
  - Data
  - Food
  - Groceries
  - Restaurants
  - Web Scraping
  - Rate Limiting
description: >-
  Foodspark does not publish a self-serve API with documented request rate
  limits, quotas, or rate-limit response headers. It operates as a managed
  data-as-a-service / web-scraping provider where data is delivered to customers
  via files or feeds after a sales engagement. The effective "rate" is the
  agreed scraping / refresh cadence negotiated per project, not a per-API-key
  throttle. No public 429/Retry-After semantics or X-RateLimit headers are
  documented. The single limit entry below reflects this negotiated cadence
  rather than an enforced technical throttle.
sources:
  - https://www.foodspark.io/food-data-api/
  - https://www.foodspark.io/pricing/
responseCodes: {}
limits:
  - name: Negotiated Scraping / Refresh Cadence
    scope: contract
    metric: varies
    limit: see negotiated engagement; no published per-key rate limit
    applies:
      - Foodspark Food Data Service
policies:
  - name: Negotiated Cadence
    description: >-
      Data freshness and extraction frequency are set per engagement (real-time,
      scheduled, or on-demand batch) rather than enforced as a public per-key
      request rate limit.
  - name: No Self-Serve Throttling
    description: >-
      Because there is no public self-serve API, there are no documented
      X-RateLimit headers, 429 throttling responses, or burst ceilings. Delivery
      volume and pace are governed by the service contract.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com