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: University of Auckland
providerId: university-of-auckland
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-30'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Rate Limiting
description: >-
  The University of Auckland publishes no rate-limit table for any surface it operates. Verified
  2026-08-30: neither OpenAPI document in developer.auckland.ac.nz/prd declares a limit, header or
  429 response, and the Kong gateway at apis.auckland.ac.nz returns 401 before any limit can be
  observed without a key. The ResearchSpace OAI-PMH service publishes no policy either; harvesters
  should use resumption tokens, honor Retry-After and harvest off-peak. Figshare and Ex Libris
  limits belong to those vendors, not to the University, and are not recorded here.
notes: >-
  Nothing below is a published University figure. 429 is the conventional throttling code, not an
  observed response. Limits for the gateway APIs can only be confirmed with a registered
  application client.
method: probed
sources:
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-auckland/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
- openapi/_original/university-of-auckland-course-catalog-v3-openapi.json
- openapi/_original/university-of-auckland-classes-v2-openapi.json
- probed 2026-08-30 against https://apis.auckland.ac.nz/ and https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/server/oai/request
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Default
  scope: client
  metric: requests-per-minute
  limit: not published
  notes: >-
    No published global limit. Not observed either: every gateway route returns 401 before a
    limit applies.
policies:
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Exponential backoff with jitter; honor Retry-After; harvest during off-peak hours.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com