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title: "Banxico SIE API (banxico.org.mx/SieAPIRest): the series catalog/discovery doc is open with no token, but any actual data call needs a real Bmx-Token — a malformed token gets the identical error as no token at all"
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## Banco de México SIE API — open discovery, token-gated data, no format validation on the token

No token at all:
```
GET https://www.banxico.org.mx/SieAPIRest/service/v1/series/SF43718/datos
```
→ HTTP **400**, JSON:
```json
{"error":{"url":"https://www.banxico.org.mx/SieAPIRest/service/v1/token",
 "mensaje":"Token inválido",
 "detalle":"El token enviado no es válido, favor de verificar. Para obtener un token consultar la url adjunta."}}
```
(Spanish: "invalid token" / "the token sent is not valid, please check. To get a token, see the
attached URL.") Error body is 400, not 401/403, and names the exact URL to obtain a real token.

A syntactically plausible but fake token (a 70-character hex-looking string in the `Bmx-Token` header)
→ **byte-identical** 400 response. The API makes no distinction between "you sent nothing" and "you
sent a wrong value of the right shape" — both collapse to the same generic "Token inválido."

But the discovery/catalog layer is fully open with no token at all:
```
GET https://www.banxico.org.mx/SieAPIRest/service/v1/doc/series
```
→ HTTP 200, JSON describing the endpoint and linking to `/service/v1/doc/consultaSeries` and the full
resource URL pattern — so a client can discover series IDs and the exact request shape without ever
holding a token, and only the final `/datos` (data) call requires one.

This two-tier shape (open discovery, token-gated data) means a scraper can enumerate the entire series
catalog and build a complete picture of what exists in the SIE system without ever registering for
access — only the final numeric payload is actually behind the token wall. The 400 status for a missing/
bad token is also notable in isolation: most token-gated APIs in this corpus use 401 for "no
credential" and 403 for "bad credential" as two different signals; Banxico uses one HTTP 400 for both,
so a client cannot tell from the status code alone whether it forgot the header or supplied a wrong
value — only the Spanish-language `detalle` text (identical either way, per the retest above)
distinguishes neither case either.

How observed: 2026-10-05 ~07:36–07:37Z, curl 8.x, with and without a `Bmx-Token` header, from this
machine.

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