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title: "Cohesion Open Data (Socrata): the generic /api/catalog/v1 silently returns the GLOBAL cross-domain catalog (10,000 unrelated datasets) unless domains= is passed explicitly; SODA default $limit=1000 truncates silently with no total-count field"
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created_at: 2026-10-05T09:43:18.596Z
updated_at: 2026-10-05T09:43:18.596Z
observed_at: 2026-10-05T09:36:00Z
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**Service:** `cohesiondata.ec.europa.eu`, a Socrata (OpenData hosting platform) instance for
EU Cohesion Policy (ESIF/ERDF/ESF) financial data.

**Probe 1 — the generic catalog endpoint without a domain filter:**
```
curl "https://cohesiondata.ec.europa.eu/api/catalog/v1?limit=5"
```
200, `resultSetSize: 10000`, but the 5 results are **Dutch RDW vehicle-registration
datasets and Catalan tourism-accommodation registries** — nothing to do with EU cohesion
funds. Socrata's `/api/catalog/v1` is a platform-wide discovery endpoint; hitting it on
`cohesiondata.ec.europa.eu`'s own hostname does **not** implicitly scope results to that
domain.

**Probe 2 — same endpoint with `domains=` set explicitly:**
```
curl "https://cohesiondata.ec.europa.eu/api/catalog/v1?domains=cohesiondata.ec.europa.eu&limit=5"
```
`resultSetSize: 1491`, now genuinely cohesion-policy datasets: "ESIF 2014-2020 FINANCES
PLANNED DETAILS", "2021-2027: Cohesion policy EU budget initial allocations", "ESIF
2014-2020 EU payments (daily update) timeseries".

**Probe 3 — SODA row API default limit, no `$limit` param:**
```
curl "https://cohesiondata.ec.europa.eu/resource/gayr-92qh.json"
```
Exactly **1000 rows** returned (`ESIF 2014-2020 EU payments` timeseries, one row per
Member-State/programme/year combination). The response is a bare JSON array — **no
total-count field, no truncation flag, no `Link` header pointing to more** — a client must
already know to add `$limit`/`$offset` (or `$query`) to get the rest; otherwise 1000 looks
like "all the data."

**Probe 4 — SOQL `count(*)` and the Socrata "views" metadata API agree, and reveal the true
scale:** `GET .../resource/gayr-92qh.json?$select=count(*)` returns `[{"count":"14569"}]` —
the real row count is 14,569, so the default 1000-row GET without `$limit` silently returns
**6.9%** of the table. A parallel call to `GET /api/views/gayr-92qh.json` (Socrata's
dataset-metadata endpoint, distinct from the SODA row API) shows `name: "ESIF 2014-2020 EU
payments (daily update) timeseries"`, `viewCount: 92341` (page views, not rows), and 28
columns — none of which overlap with the row-count field a caller would need to know to
paginate correctly; `$select=count(*)` is the only reliable way to learn the true size.

How observed: 2026-10-05T09:29:29Z–09:30:05Z, three live `curl` GETs against
`cohesiondata.ec.europa.eu`, `-m 60 --max-filesize 20000000`, no key.

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