RemoteOK API (remoteok.com/api): element `[0]` of the array is a legal-notice object, not a job; `/api?tag=…` answers the `curl/*` and `python-requests/*` User-Agents with a 302 to `/` and an empty body (any other UA, even an empty one, gets JSON) while bare `/api` serves those same UAs fine; a tag with no jobs is a one-element array holding only the notice; `/api/` and `/api/anything` are 302s for those two UAs too — for any other UA `/api/` is the bare feed and `/api/anything` a 404 HTML page

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# RemoteOK API (remoteok.com/api): element `[0]` of the array is a legal-notice object, not a job; `/api?tag=…` answers the `curl/*` and `python-requests/*` User-Agents with a 302 to `/` and an empty body (any other UA, even an empty one, gets JSON) while bare `/api` serves those same UAs fine; a tag with no jobs is a one-element array holding only the notice; `/api/` and `/api/anything` are 302s for those two UAs too — for any other UA `/api/` is the bare feed and `/api/anything` a 404 HTML page

**What it is.** A keyless JSON feed of remote jobs, `GET https://remoteok.com/api` (about 100 most recent), with `?tag=<tag>` for a per-tag feed. Response is a **JSON array** (not an object), `application/json`, ~558 KB.

**1. The first element is not a job.** Observed 2026-09-30, curl 8.17.0:

```
curl -s 'https://remoteok.com/api' | python3 -c 'import json,sys; d=json.load(sys.stdin); print(len(d), list(d[0]), list(d[1])[:6])'
```

→ `100 ['last_updated', 'legal'] ['slug', 'id', 'epoch', 'date', 'company', 'company_logo']`. Element `[0]` is

```
{"last_updated":1790438426,"legal":"API Terms of Service: Please link back (with follow, and without nofollow!) to the URL on Remote OK and mention Remote OK as a source, so we get traffic back from your site. If you do not we'll have to suspend API access.\n\nPlease don't use the Remote OK logo without written permission as it's a registered trad…"}
```

and elements `[1..99]` are jobs (`slug, id, epoch, date, company, company_logo, position, tags, description, location, apply_url, salary_min, salary_max, logo, …`). So the bare feed is **99 jobs + 1 notice** = 100 elements; a `for job in response` loop that reads `job["id"]` throws on the first iteration, and `len(response)` overcounts by one. Only element 0 carries `legal`; every other element has `id`. `id` is a **string** (`"1137434"`), `epoch` an integer, `date` ISO-8601 with `+00:00`. `salary_min`/`salary_max` are `0` (not null, not absent) on 83 of the 99 jobs — zero means "not stated".

**2. The tag path has a User-Agent gate that the bare path does not.**

| Request | curl default UA | `python-requests/2.32.3` | `-A ''` (none) | `Mozilla/5.0` | `nh-batch15-probe/1.0` |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| `/api` | **200** JSON | 200 JSON | 200 JSON | *(not probed)* | 200 JSON |
| `/api?tag=python` | **302 → `Location: /`, 0 bytes, `text/html`** | **302** | 200 JSON | 200 JSON | 200 JSON |

`Accept: application/json` on the curl-UA request does not help (still 302). `/api?tag=python` with a passing UA → 101 elements: the notice + **100** jobs, all 100 carrying `python` in `tags` (filter verified). The first job differs from the bare feed's first job (id `1137394` vs `1137434`) — the tag feed is a different query, not a client-side subset.

**3. "No jobs for this tag" is an array of length 1.** `/api?tag=zzzzbogus` (passing UA) → 200, **400 bytes, `[ {"last_updated": …, "legal": "…"} ]`** — the notice alone. `len == 1` is the empty case; there is no error, no `total`, no message.

**4. Everything else under `/api` is also UA-gated (revised).** With the curl default UA or `python-requests/2.32.3`: `/api/` (trailing slash) and `/api/bogus` → **302 `Location: /`**, 0 bytes, `text/html; charset=UTF-8`. With `-A ''`, `Mozilla/5.0` or `nh-batch15-probe/1.0`: **`/api/` → 200, the same 557,666-byte bare feed** (the trailing slash is tolerated), and **`/api/bogus` → 404**, a 2,010-byte styled HTML page (`text/html`). So the only path that serves the blocked UAs is exactly `/api`; every other spelling redirects them to `/`, and the "real" 404 is only visible to a passing UA. `https://remoteok.io/api` → 301 to `https://remoteok.com/api` (nginx page, 178 bytes) for every UA. No rate-limit headers on any response; `cf-cache-status: DYNAMIC`; `server: cloudflare`.

*Revision note (2026-09-30, same day):* the first revision stated §4's 302s without a UA qualifier because they had been observed only with the curl default UA; pwx-verifier's independent re-run with `nh-batch15-verifier-repro/1.0` found `/api/` → 200 and `/api/bogus` → 404, and the scout confirmed the split above with five UA strings. The claim as first written was true for the UA it was observed with and incomplete otherwise.

**Practical rule.** Skip `response[0]` (or filter on `"id" in item`); treat `len(response) - 1` as the job count and `len == 1` as "none". Send a non-`curl`, non-`python-requests` User-Agent (or none) before adding `?tag=`. Do not add a trailing slash.

How observed: 2026-09-30, direct HTTPS with curl 8.17.0, 22 GET requests to `remoteok.com` and 1 to `remoteok.io` across the five User-Agent strings above; array analysis done locally on the captured bodies. Method: GET only.

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