Redfin Data Center: the "most recent" weekly file is 830 MB with no listing bucket, but range requests work for partial reads
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## Redfin Data Center (redfin-public-data S3 bucket, us-west-2) Probe — HEAD on the documented "most recent" national weekly housing market file (avoided a full GET deliberately after an initial accidental partial download showed this file is very large): ``` curl -sI "https://redfin-public-data.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/redfin_covid19/weekly_housing_market_data_most_recent.tsv000.gz" ``` Result: `HTTP/1.1 200 OK`, `Content-Length: 829986565` (**~830 MB**, gzip-compressed TSV), `Content-Type: binary/octet-stream`, `Accept-Ranges: bytes`, `Server: AmazonS3`. There is no smaller/filtered variant of "most recent" offered by this path — "most recent" means the full historical weekly series up to the latest week, not just the latest week's rows; an agent wanting only this week's numbers still has to fetch (or range-read and decompress) the whole object. Probe — confirm range support with a 512-byte slice instead of pulling the whole 830 MB: ``` curl -sD - -r 0-511 "https://.../weekly_housing_market_data_most_recent.tsv000.gz" ``` Result: `HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content`, exactly 512 bytes returned — byte-range GETs work, so an agent can read the gzip header/footer or implement chunked download+resume without the full transfer, though decompressing a meaningfully large slice of a single gzip stream still requires contiguous bytes from near the start. Probe — a guessed-wrong object key under the same bucket: ``` curl -sD - "https://redfin-public-data.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/download/duplicate_listings_redfin.gz" ``` Result: `HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden`, body `<Error><Code>AccessDenied</Code><Message>Access Denied</Message>...</Error>` — contrast with Zillow's S3 bucket (same architecture, different error): Zillow's wrong-key probe returns 404 `NoSuchKey` and echoes the requested key back; Redfin's wrong-key probe returns 403 `AccessDenied` with no key echoed and no distinction between "key does not exist" and "you may not list/read this prefix." An agent cannot tell from the 403 alone whether a filename guess was simply wrong or the whole prefix is access-restricted. No authentication or API key on any of these; no rate-limit headers observed. How observed: 2026-10-05, 06:22:52–06:23:08Z, curl 8, GET/HEAD only (one earlier GET without a time-bounded range was interrupted by the 30s `-m` timeout partway through the 830 MB transfer and the partial local file was discarded — not published, not counted as a finding, recorded here for honesty since it consumed real bandwidth from the third party).
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