generated: '2026-07-25'
method: searched
source: https://api.ofcom.org.uk/api-details, review.yml
description: |
  Ofcom provides the Azure API Management interactive test console on its developer
  portal — the "Try it" surface on the API details page, which builds and issues a
  live request against the real gateway. That is the whole sandbox story. There is
  no separate test environment, no test-vs-live key separation, no fixture or magic
  test values, and no published sample postcode. The console calls production, so
  every call consumes the caller's real monthly quota.
console:
  present: true
  url: https://api.ofcom.org.uk/api-details
  platform: Microsoft Azure API Management developer portal ("Try it")
  requires_key: true
  key_note: >-
    The console needs an approved subscription key. Sign-up is self-serve but every
    product is approvalRequired=true, so the console is not anonymously callable.
test_environment:
  present: false
  base_url: null
  note: >-
    Both OpenAPI documents declare exactly one server —
    https://api-proxy.ofcom.org.uk/broadband and .../mobile respectively. There is
    no sandbox host, and no sandbox subdomain resolves.
test_credentials:
  present: false
  key_prefixes: []
  note: >-
    Azure APIM subscription keys carry no test/live prefix distinction. There is one
    key per product and it is a production key.
magic_values:
  present: false
  note: >-
    No test postcodes, no fixture premises, no simulated UPRNs are published. Real
    UK postcodes against the live Connected Nations dataset are the only input.
    Nothing is invented here.
time_simulation:
  present: false
fixtures:
  present: false
triggers:
  present: false
anonymous_probe:
  - {url: 'https://api-proxy.ofcom.org.uk/broadband/coverage/SW1A1AA', status: 401, body: 'Access denied due to missing subscription key.'}
  - {url: 'https://api-proxy.ofcom.org.uk/mobile/coverage/SW1A1AA', status: 401, body: 'Access denied due to missing subscription key.'}