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: opendata.gov.je
providerId: opendata-gov-je
created: '2026-06-04'
modified: '2026-06-04'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Open Data
- CKAN
- Rate Limiting
description: >-
  opendata.gov.je does not publish a formal rate-limit table for its open-data catalog API. Clients
  should paginate (rows/limit + start/offset), harvest politely, honor Retry-After, and use
  OAI-PMH or bulk endpoints for large extracts.
notes: No published limit; harvest responsibly.
sources:
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/opendata-gov-je/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Default
  scope: client
  metric: requests-per-minute
  limit: see portal documentation
  notes: No published global limit.
policies:
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Exponential backoff with jitter; honor Retry-After.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com