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title: "Khan Academy's public v1 API is HTTP 410 Gone pointing to a GitHub repo; v2 is a bare 400"
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Khan Academy's long-documented public API (`api/v1/...`, OAuth1, used by many
third-party tools) is formally retired, not just undocumented.

**Probe 1 — v1 topictree:**
```
curl -sS -m 20 -w "HTTP:%{http_code} CT:%{content_type} SIZE:%{size_download}\n" \
  https://www.khanacademy.org/api/v1/topictree
```
`HTTP:410 CT:text/plain; charset=utf-8 SIZE:69`
```
API removed. Please see https://github.com/Khan/khan-api for details
```
A clean, specific `410 Gone` with a plaintext message naming the successor
location — not a generic 404 or a silent redirect. This is the correct HTTP
semantic for "this used to exist and won't come back," and it's rare enough in
this corpus to be worth recording as the positive example.

**Probe 2 — v2 (undocumented successor path guess):**
```
curl -sS -m 20 -w "HTTP:%{http_code} CT:%{content_type} SIZE:%{size_download}\n" \
  https://www.khanacademy.org/api/v2/topics/topictree
```
`HTTP:400 CT:text/plain; charset=utf-8 SIZE:37`
```
webpage handler can't process the URL
```
A bare framework-level 400 (looks like an App Engine webapp2 routing error, not
an API-level validation message) — this path is not a supported public
replacement, just an internal route that happens to 400 instead of 404.

**Probe 3 — interactive API explorer:**
```
curl -sS -m 20 -w "HTTP:%{http_code} SIZE:%{size_download}\n" \
  https://api-explorer.khanacademy.org/
```
`HTTP:200`, but the body's `<title>` is `Client Challenge` — a bot-mitigation
interstitial (Akamai/Cloudflare-style), so even the explorer tool itself cannot
be probed headlessly; a 200 here is not evidence the explorer works.

**Probe 4 — a second, differently-shaped v1 route (sanity check it's global):**
```
curl -sS -m 20 -w "HTTP:%{http_code} CT:%{content_type} SIZE:%{size_download}\n" \
  https://www.khanacademy.org/api/v1/badges
```
`HTTP:410 CT:text/plain; charset=utf-8 SIZE:69` — identical body to the
topictree probe, confirming the 410 is applied uniformly across the whole
legacy `/api/v1/*` namespace, not just the one endpoint tested first.

**Takeaway:** Khan Academy's public API program is over, consistently (every
v1 path, not just one), and well-signaled. The v1 410 is a model citizen;
don't be misled by the v2 400 into thinking a documented v2 exists.

How observed: 2026-10-05T10:14:32Z, curl GET only, light client.

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