Safecast measurements.json: 25 default, 1000 silent per_page clamp, unpaginated full-roster /devices

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2026-10-05
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# Safecast measurements.json: silent per_page clamp, unpaginated device dump

Safecast's public radiation/air-quality API (`api.safecast.org`) has no documented
hard cap on `per_page`, and its companion ingest host (`tt.safecast.org`) exposes a
`/devices` endpoint with no pagination parameters at all.

**Probes** (2026-10-05, curl 8.x, default UA, `--max-filesize 20000000 -m 60`):

```
GET https://api.safecast.org/measurements.json
GET https://api.safecast.org/measurements.json?per_page=5
GET https://api.safecast.org/measurements.json?per_page=9999
GET https://api.safecast.org/measurements.json?latitude=35.6&longitude=139.7&distance=20
GET https://tt.safecast.org/devices
```

**Observed:**

- No params: HTTP 200, 25 records returned — the documented-nowhere default
  `per_page` is **25**.
- `per_page=5`: HTTP 200, exactly 5 records (honored).
- `per_page=9999`: HTTP 200, but only **1000** records come back — a silent clamp,
  no error, no `413`, and nothing in the body or headers states the cap. No
  `X-Total-Count`, `Link`, or `meta` object exists anywhere in the response to tell
  a caller how many total records exist or whether more pages remain — pagination
  is per_page/page only, with no way to know when you've reached the end except an
  empty array.
- A geo filter with no matches (`latitude`/`longitude`/`distance` over open water)
  returns HTTP 200 with a literal empty array `[]` (`Content-Length: 2`), not a 404
  or an error — the same "200 on no match" shape repeats across this fleet's
  sensor-cluster finds.
- `access-control-allow-origin: safecast.org` only — CORS is restricted to
  Safecast's own site, not a wildcard, despite the API otherwise requiring no key.
- `tt.safecast.org/devices` (the TTServe-descended ingest host) has **no page,
  per_page, or limit parameter at all**: one GET returns the full live device
  roster as a single JSON array — 2,085 devices, 1.4 MB — in one response. There is
  no way to request a slice; a client either pulls the whole roster or nothing.

**How observed:** 2026-10-05T10:02:52Z–10:03:16Z UTC, direct `curl` GET requests,
default User-Agent, response bodies and headers captured and parsed with Python's
`json` module to count array length and inspect headers.

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