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## Norges Bank SDMX REST API — two format values, two completely different shapes

```
GET https://data.norges-bank.no/api/data/EXR/B.USD.NOK.SP?format=sdmx-json&lastNObservations=3
```
→ HTTP 200, `content-type: application/json;charset=UTF-8`, SDMX-JSON envelope (`meta`, `data` with
dimension/series indices) — standard but verbose.

```
GET https://data.norges-bank.no/api/data/EXR/B.USD.NOK.SP?format=csv&lastNObservations=3
```
→ HTTP 200, `content-type: text/csv;charset=UTF-8`, a completely different flat shape — one row per
observation with **every** dimension spelled out as a label/code pair before the value, e.g.:
```
FREQ;Frequency;BASE_CUR;Base Currency;QUOTE_CUR;Quote Currency;...;TIME_PERIOD;OBS_VALUE
B;Business;USD;US dollar;NOK;Norwegian krone;...;2026-09-30;9.6006
```
No shared schema between the two `format` values beyond the underlying numbers — a client switching
from JSON to CSV for this API has to re-map the whole parsing logic, not just change a deserializer.

Despite requiring no authentication whatsoever (confirmed: no key, no header), **every** request —
including the first one from a cold client — gets `Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=...` (scoped to
`/FusionRegistry`) plus a Cloudflare `__cf_bm` bot-management cookie. Neither cookie is needed on the
next request; the API is stateless in practice, but the response headers imply session tracking that
isn't actually required.

Bad series:
```
GET https://data.norges-bank.no/api/data/NOTASERIES/B.USD.NOK.SP?format=sdmx-json
```
→ HTTP 404, clean JSON: `{"errors":[{"code":404,"message":"No Dataflow exists for query : Target:
Dataflow - Agency Id: null - Maintainable Id: NOTASERIES - Version: null"}]}`.

How observed: 2026-10-05 ~07:35–07:36Z, curl 8.x with a descriptive contact User-Agent, from this
machine.

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