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 Florida
providerId: university-of-florida
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-09-01'
reconciled: true
generated: '2026-09-01'
method: probed
x-operator: institution
source: >-
  Every response header returned by https://one.ufl.edu/apix/soc/schedule/,
  https://one.ufl.edu/apix/soc/filters/ and every resource under
  https://api.patron.uflib.ufl.edu, inspected on 2026-09-01.
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Rate Limiting
description: >-
  The University of Florida publishes NO rate limit for either API it operates, and
  emits no rate-limit signal of any kind. Verified 2026-09-01 across both hosts: no
  X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Reset, RateLimit or Retry-After
  header on any response, and no HTTP 429 observed under normal use. Neither API
  authenticates callers, so UF has no mechanism to identify, meter, throttle or revoke a
  consumer. The only protection against being cut off is the consumer's own restraint.
  Treat both APIs as a courtesy, not an entitlement, and self-throttle.
notes: >-
  No per-service documentation exists to confirm limits against — UF publishes none. The
  earlier version of this artifact named IIIF among UF's harvesting surfaces; no IIIF
  endpoint was found on any UF host in the 2026-09-01 probe and that claim is withdrawn.
sources:
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-florida/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
responseCodes:
  throttled: none-observed
  note: >-
    No 429 was observed and none is documented. The previous value of 429 here was a
    scaffold default, not a probe result, and is corrected.
limits:
- name: UF Schedule of Courses (SOC) API
  baseURL: https://one.ufl.edu/apix/soc
  scope: client
  metric: unpublished
  limit: none-published
  notes: 'No rate-limit header of any kind on any response. Unauthenticated, so unmeterable.'
- name: UF Libraries Patron API
  baseURL: https://api.patron.uflib.ufl.edu
  scope: client
  metric: unpublished
  limit: none-published
  notes: >-
    No rate-limit header of any kind. The OAI-PMH interface at /oai supports
    resumptionToken paging, which is the only flow-control mechanism either API exposes,
    and it is the standard's, not UF's.
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