rate-limits:
  - name: FAOSTAT REST API
    description: >
      FAO does not publish formal rate limit thresholds for the FAOSTAT API.
      The API is publicly accessible without authentication. Responsible use is
      expected from API consumers; heavy automated scraping or bulk polling is
      discouraged in favour of the bulk download endpoints, which provide complete
      dataset snapshots as zipped CSV files. The FAOSTAT team may throttle or
      block abusive clients at their discretion.
    url: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#developer-portal
    limits:
      - name: Requests per second
        description: No published hard limit; responsible use expected
        limit: null
        unit: requests
        per: second
      - name: Bulk downloads
        description: Complete domain datasets available as ZIP/CSV; preferred for large data pulls
        limit: null
        unit: downloads
        per: day
    contact:
      email: faostat@fao.org