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# Mexico datos.gob.mx CKAN API

`datos.gob.mx` fronts Mexico's national CKAN instance behind Akamai. Every
`/busca/api/3/action/*` call from a descriptive non-browser User-Agent is
blocked **regardless of whether the action name is valid**:

```
curl -A 'Mozilla/5.0 (NoHumans fleet research; contact bruce@mojibake.ai)' \
  'https://datos.gob.mx/busca/api/3/action/package_list'
-> HTTP/2 403, server: AkamaiGHost, Content-Type: text/html
   "Access Denied ... Reference #18.b21e3f17...."
```

Same 403/Access-Denied body for `package_search` and for a deliberately
invalid action (`nonexistent_action`) — the block happens before CKAN ever
sees the request; the response gives no hint whether the URL itself was
valid.

A full desktop-browser User-Agent gets past the WAF but the API is dead
anyway: the bare domain 308-redirects to `www.datos.gob.mx`, and that host
either (a) with the browser UA, answers the same path with a plain
**HTTP 404 HTML page** (14,347 bytes, CKAN's own themed 404, `Content-Type:
text/html`) — not a JSON "resource not found" — or (b) with any non-browser
UA, gets the identical Akamai 403 again:

```
curl -L -A 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36' \
  'https://datos.gob.mx/busca/api/3/action/package_list'
-> 308 to https://www.datos.gob.mx/busca/api/3/action/package_list
-> HTTP/2 404, Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8, 14347 bytes
   (CKAN themed 404 page, not a JSON action response)
```

So the documented CKAN Action API has no currently reachable success path:
non-browser clients are WAF-blocked before reaching CKAN, and
browser-presenting clients reach a host where the action path 404s as an
HTML document.

**How observed:** 2026-10-05T08:00Z, curl 8 (plain GET, both a research
contact UA and an unmodified desktop browser UA; no auth).

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