generated: '2026-09-10'
method: searched
source: >-
  SwaggerHub organization account `Franklin-Templeton` (api.swaggerhub.com), live DNS of
  api.franklintempleton.com and developer.franklintempleton.com, the current
  www.franklintempleton.com sitemap, and Internet Archive CDX captures of the retired
  developer portal.
revised: '2026-09-10'
headline: >-
  Franklin Templeton ran a real public developer program — a Drupal-style portal at
  developer.franklintempleton.com fronting the "Detailed Product APIs" (7 read-only fund-data
  operations) at https://api.franklintempleton.com/v1 — and RETIRED it without publishing a
  deprecation notice, a sunset date, or a migration path. Both hosts now have no DNS record.
  The only surviving machine-readable trace is the company's own SwaggerHub organization, which
  still serves the Swagger 2.0 contract publicly today.
status: retired
versioning:
  scheme: path-segment
  current_version: v1
  notes: >-
    basePath `/v1` in the provider's own contract. No second version was ever published, and no
    versioning policy page survives.
deprecation:
  policy_documented: false
  sunset_header: false
  deprecated_operations: []
  notes: >-
    No RFC 8594 Sunset/Deprecation header can be observed because the host does not resolve. No
    operation in the published contract carries `deprecated: true`. No deprecation policy page
    exists on the current site. NO `Deprecation` pointer is emitted — recording one would credit
    Franklin Templeton with a policy it never published, when what actually happened is a silent
    withdrawal.
retirement:
  api: Detailed Product APIs
  developer_portal:
    url: http://developer.franklintempleton.com/
    dns: no A record (NOERROR/NODATA from liz.ns.cloudflare.com, checked 2026-09-10)
    first_archived: '2019-07-21'
    last_archived: '2023-03-13'
    archived_paths:
      - /apis
      - /documentation
      - /getting-started
      - /code-samples
      - /detailed-product-apis/apis
      - /detailed-product-apis/apis/get/funds/GetFundsDetails
      - /detailed-product-apis/apis/get/funds/GetInvestmentTeam
      - /detailed-product-apis/apis/get/funds/GetFundNAV
      - /detailed-product-apis/apis/get/funds/GetDistributionRate
      - /detailed-product-apis/apis/get/funds/GetNAVHistory
      - /detailed-product-apis/apis/get/funds/GetDistributionHistory
      - /detailed-product-apis/apis/get/funds/GetProductAUM
      - /user/register
      - /user/login
      - /legal
      - /privacy-security
      - /contact-us-0
    note: >-
      The archived portal path structure matches the operationIds in the surviving contract
      one-for-one, which is what confirms the SwaggerHub document is Franklin Templeton's own
      published API and not a lookalike.
  api_host:
    url: https://api.franklintempleton.com/v1
    dns: no A record (checked 2026-09-10)
    archived_evidence:
      - url: https://api.franklintempleton.com/v1/ide/services
        archived: '2019-10-02'
        status: 401
        note: answered a real 401 when live — the gateway existed
      - url: https://api.franklintempleton.com/v1/ide/services/mobileAppVersion
        archived: '2019-05-16'
        status: 200
  sunset_announced: false
  migration_path_published: false
status_page:
  published: false
  probed:
    - url: https://status.franklintempleton.com
      status: no DNS A record
      checked: '2026-09-10'
  note: >-
    No status page on any host. NO `StatusPage` pointer is emitted.
changelog:
  published: false
  note: >-
    No dated API or product changelog is published. The current sitemap
    (us-retail_staticsitemap.xml, 245 URLs, fetched 2026-09-10) contains no developer, API,
    changelog or release-notes route. No changelog/ artifact is written.
sla:
  documented: false
roadmap:
  published: false
terms:
  url: https://www.franklintempleton.com/help/terms-of-use
  api_specific_terms: >-
    The contract's own `info.termsOfService` points at
    https://www.franklintempleton.com/investor/help/terms-of-use, and `info.license` (labelled
    "Apache 2.0", which is almost certainly a Swagger-editor default left in place) points at the
    corporate contact-us page rather than a licence.
observations:
  - >-
    This is a Fortune 500 asset manager that shipped a public fund-data API, took it down, and left
    the contract discoverable on its own SwaggerHub organization. Anyone integrating from that
    contract today would get DNS failure, not a deprecation error.
  - >-
    The llms.txt Franklin Templeton publishes at https://www.franklintempleton.com/llms.txt is a
    genuine first-party document (7,368 bytes, text/plain, fetched 2026-09-10) but it advertises
    dead routes: of 40 franklintempleton.com links sampled from it, 5 return the site's 11,907-byte
    soft-404 shell (/investments/additional-capabilities, /investments/capabilities/etfs, and three
    /planning-and-learning/learn-about-investing/market-volatility* pages). The published sitemap
    has the same problem — every /insights/best-ideas* URL in us-retail_staticsitemap.xml returns
    the soft-404 shell. An agent following either document lands on nothing.
  - >-
    NO Agent Skill is generated for this provider, deliberately. Skills would be grounded in real
    operationIds from a real first-party contract, but they would instruct an agent to call
    api.franklintempleton.com — a host with no DNS record. Publishing them would teach agents to
    call an API that cannot be reached. No skills/ artifact and no AgentSkill pointer are written.
  - >-
    robots.txt on www.franklintempleton.com disallows `/llm.txt` (singular) while the file the site
    actually serves is `/llms.txt` (plural), which is not disallowed. Probably a typo; recorded
    because it is the only AI-facing directive the company publishes.