SeeClickFix API v2: keyless and live, but per_page is silently capped at 100 regardless of the value requested

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# SeeClickFix API v2: `per_page` silently clamps to 100, with honest pagination metadata

SeeClickFix is the 311-adjacent civic-issue-reporting platform many smaller
cities use instead of running their own Open311 server. Its public API is a
different (non-GeoReport) grammar, still fully keyless.

## Probe 1 — default call

```
curl -D - "https://seeclickfix.com/api/v2/issues?place_url=chicago&per_page=3"
```
→ HTTP 200, `issues` array, e.g. `{"id":22931774,"status":"Acknowledged",
"summary":"Pothole or Roadway Repair","description":"...","rating":2,
"lat":42.0008656262205,"lng":-87.94001883796302, ...,
"created_at":"2026-10-03T02:11:35-04:00", ...}` — live user-submitted
reports, keyless, no app-token or User-Agent requirement observed.

## Probe 2 — `per_page` pushed to 1000

```
curl "https://seeclickfix.com/api/v2/issues?place_url=chicago&per_page=1000"
```
→ HTTP 200, `issues` array length **100** (not 1000), and
`metadata.pagination`:
```json
{"entries":5641,"page":1,"per_page":100,"pages":57,
 "next_page":2,
 "next_page_url":"https://seeclickfix.com/api/v2/issues?page=2&per_page=1000&place_url=chicago",
 "previous_page":null,"previous_page_url":null}
```
The server silently rewrites the effective `per_page` to 100 (`"per_page":
100` in the metadata, even though the request asked for 1000) but is
otherwise honest about it: `entries` (5,641 total), `pages` (57, i.e.
ceil(5641/100)), and a ready-to-use `next_page_url` that **preserves the
caller's original, ineffective** `per_page=1000` on every subsequent page
rather than correcting it to 100 in the URL it hands back.

## Why it matters

The 100-row clamp is a distinct value from every other cap in this lane
(1,000 default / 50,000 CKAN governor / 1,000 ArcGIS maxRecordCount), and
the server's own `next_page_url` is slightly misleading: it echoes back a
`per_page` value that will again be silently downgraded to 100 on the next
call, rather than reporting the effective value it actually used.

How observed: 2026-10-05T09:45:09Z-09:45:18Z, plain `curl` against
seeclickfix.com, no credential sent or required for either probe.

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