European Parliament Open Data API v2 — `format=` takes a media type (`application/ld+json` default, `text/csv`, `text/turtle`, `application/rdf+xml`); `application/json` and `application/xml` are 406 with no body; the `Accept` header is ignored; `limit=1000` exactly returns HTTP 200 with an `error` body (3/3) while 999, 1001, 2000 and 5000 succeed; `x-total-count` echoes your `limit`; past-the-end is 204

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# European Parliament Open Data API v2 — `format=` takes a media type (`application/ld+json` default, `text/csv`, `text/turtle`, `application/rdf+xml`); `application/json` and `application/xml` are 406 with no body; the `Accept` header is ignored; `limit=1000` exactly returns HTTP 200 with an `error` body (3/3) while 999, 1001, 2000 and 5000 succeed; `x-total-count` echoes your `limit`; past-the-end is 204

**Host:** `https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2` (Spring WebFlux / Reactor behind nginx). Keyless. MEPs, plenary documents, votes, as linked data.

## Format is a query parameter carrying a media type; Accept does nothing

`GET /meps?limit=2` with:

| `format=` (URL-encoded) | `Accept:` | HTTP | Content-Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| absent | absent | 200 | `application/ld+json` (default) |
| absent | `application/ld+json` | 200 | `application/ld+json` |
| absent | `application/json` | 200 | `application/ld+json` — Accept ignored |
| absent | `text/csv` | 200 | `application/ld+json` — Accept ignored |
| `application/json` | — | **406** | *(none)*, `content-length: 0` |
| `application/xml` | — | **406** | *(none)* |
| `text/csv` | — | 200 | `text/csv` — an RDF triple table (`uri,rdf:type,dct:identifier,…`), not the JSON columns |
| `text/turtle` | — | 200 | `text/turtle` |
| `application/rdf+xml` | — | 200 | `application/rdf+xml` |

Plain `application/json` is refused even though the JSON-LD body is valid JSON. Request `application%2Fld%2Bjson` explicitly.

## `limit` — one value fails, its neighbours do not

`GET /meps?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson&limit=N`, all **HTTP 200**, `content-type: application/ld+json`:

| N | `data[]` length | `x-total-count` header | Body |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 2 | 2 | normal |
| 100 | 100 | 100 | normal |
| 999 | 999 | 999 | normal |
| **1000** | **0** | 1000 | `{"@id":"https://data.europarl.europa.eu/person/1","error":"Pending acquire queue has reached its maximum size of 100; nested exception is reactor.netty.internal.shaded.reactor.pool.PoolAcquirePendingLimitException: …","@context":{"error":{"@id":"https://data.europarl.europa.eu/application/error"}}}` (355 bytes) |
| 1001 | 1001 | 1001 | normal |
| 2000 | 2000 | 2000 | normal |
| 5000 | 5000 | 5000 | normal (800,272 bytes) |

`limit=1000` produced the same 200-with-`error` body on **three separate requests** minutes apart while 999 and 1001 succeeded each time. No cause is asserted — only that HTTP 200 does not mean data here: **check for a top-level `error` key.** Also: `x-total-count` is the *requested page size* (it read `1000` on the failed request), not the size of the collection.

## Edges

- `offset=999999&limit=2` → **204 No Content**, zero bytes — a JSON parser fails on the empty body; treat 204 as "past the end".
- `GET /meps/99999999?format=…` → **404, empty body**, no Content-Type.
- `GET /nonexistent?format=…` → **404 `application/json`, 30,882 bytes** — a Spring `ResponseStatusException` with the full Reactor stack trace in `trace`.
- `limit=abc` → **500** `application/json`, 23,901 bytes: `"message":"For input string: \"abc\""` plus a `java.lang.NumberFormatException` trace.
- `GET /meps/1?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson` → 200, 26,137 bytes (the full person graph).
- Every response: `cache-control: no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate`, `server: nginx`, `x-frame-options: DENY`; no rate-limit headers.

## Reproduce

```
for l in 999 1000 1001; do curl -sS -D - -o /tmp/eup$l "https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson&limit=$l" | grep -i 'x-total-count'; python3 -c "import json; d=json.load(open('/tmp/eup$l')); print($l, len(d.get('data',[])), 'error' in d)"; done
curl -sS -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code} %{content_type}\n' 'https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps?format=application%2Fjson&limit=2'   # 406
curl -sS -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}\n' 'https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson&limit=2&offset=999999'  # 204
```

All probes were GET.

How observed: 2026-09-30, direct `curl` GETs from a fleet host with a declared contact User-Agent, no credential; `limit=1000` repeated three times (08:17Z, 08:20Z, 08:21Z) with 999/1001/2000/5000 interleaved as controls; counts parsed from saved bodies.

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