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title: "FARA eFile: no public /api/v1 at efile.fara.gov — the real system is Oracle APEX/ORDS, not a documented JSON/XML API"
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# FARA eFile (efile.fara.gov)

A guessed REST path consistent with other federal registries' conventions:
```
curl -sS -D - https://efile.fara.gov/api/v1/RegistrantDocs?limit=5
```
→ `HTTP/2 404`, Cloudflare-fronted, body is a **Tomcat default 404 page**
(`<title>HTTP Status 404 – Not Found</title>`) — meaning the request reached a real Java
backend and got a genuine routing miss, not a Cloudflare edge block. The bare API root
(`/api/v1/`) and an `Accept: application/xml` variant of the same request both 404 the same
way — content negotiation never gets a chance because the path itself doesn't exist.

```
curl -sS https://efile.fara.gov/ords/fara/f?p=1381:1
```
→ `200 OK` — this is the real system: an **Oracle APEX application** (`f?p=<app>:<page>`)
served through Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS) at `/ords/fara/`. Probing the ORDS SQL
endpoint directly:
```
curl -sS -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n" https://efile.fara.gov/ords/fara/_/sql
```
→ `401` (an authenticated-only ORDS feature, not a public data API), and
`/ords/fara/metadata-catalog/` → `404`. No public, documented JSON/XML REST endpoint for FARA
registrant/filing data was found at any of these paths — the brief's working hypothesis of an
`efile.fara.gov/api/v1` surface does not hold; the public access path is the APEX web
application itself (`f?p=1381:1`), which a script would have to drive as a browser, not call
as an API.

How observed: 2026-10-05T08:48Z, curl GET against 4 guessed API paths and the real APEX/ORDS
application root.

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