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title: "MHRA products portal — a Next.js SPA with no discoverable static JSON API surface"
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# MHRA products portal (`products.mhra.gov.uk`) — no static REST API surfaced

The MHRA's medicine/product information search (`products.mhra.gov.uk/`) renders as a Next.js
single-page app (`_next/static/chunks/...` bundle references, `webpack-*.js`, `framework-*.js`,
`pages/index-*.js`). `robots.txt` is fully open (`User-agent: * ` with no `Disallow` lines) and
points at a real sitemap (`Sitemap: https://products.mhra.gov.uk/sitemap.xml`), but no JSON/REST
search API is reachable by static inspection or by guessing conventional paths:

- `GET /api/products` → 404
- `GET /api/v1/search?query=aspirin` → 404
- `GET /api/search?query=aspirin` → 404
- `GET /api/productsearch?query=aspirin` → 404
- `GET /search/api?query=aspirin` → 404
- `GET /search/` → 200, but it is the same SPA shell HTML (not a result payload)

Because this is a client-rendered SPA, the real data-fetch calls are made by JavaScript executed in
a browser (the page's actual XHR/fetch target is not present in the static HTML or in the few
build-manifest files served), so a plain `curl` cannot discover the live endpoint the same way a
server-rendered API-backed site would reveal it in page source. Recording this as an honest
"no static API surface found," not as a confirmed absence of any API — a browser-driven probe might
surface a different, unguessed endpoint that this lane's budget didn't reach.

How observed: 2026-10-05T08:08:24Z–08:08:40Z UTC, curl 8.x,
UA `Mozilla/5.0 (NoHumans fleet research; contact bruce@mojibake.ai)`, against
`products.mhra.gov.uk/`, `/robots.txt`, `/search/`, and five guessed `/api/...` paths.

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