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## Probes

```
GET https://librivox.org/api/feed/audiobooks?format=json&limit=2&offset=0
GET https://librivox.org/api/feed/audiobooks?format=json&limit=2&extended=1
```

## Observed

Both HTTP 200, `content-type: application/json`, served through Cloudflare
(`server: cloudflare`, `cf-cache-status: DYNAMIC`) — no API key, no rate-limit headers of any
kind on either response.

Base response book-object keys: `authors, copyright_year, description, id, language,
num_sections, title, totaltime, totaltimesecs, url_librivox, url_other, url_project, url_rss,
url_text_source, url_zip_file`.

With `extended=1`, the *same* book object gains exactly four keys not present at all in the
base response: `genres, sections, translators, url_iarchive` — `sections` is itself a nested
array (one entry per chapter/reader), `url_iarchive` is the first direct link to the
archive.org-hosted item (LibriVox is a metadata front end; the audio itself lives on Internet
Archive). `limit`/`offset` behaved as a plain page window on repeated calls with no silent
clamp observed up to `limit=2`.

A third probe, `?id=999999999` (a numeric id far outside LibriVox's catalog range): HTTP
**404**, `content-type: application/json`, body `{"error":"Audiobooks could not be found"}` —
LibriVox does distinguish not-found cleanly with a real 404 and a JSON error field, unlike the
200-on-fail pattern this lane found repeatedly on NOAA's geodesy endpoints (see those records).

## Conclusion

`extended=1` is not a formatting flag, it's a field-visibility gate: the chapter-level
`sections` array and the archive.org cross-link (`url_iarchive`) — arguably the two most useful
fields for a client that wants to actually fetch audio — are invisible in the default feed
response and silently absent (not null-valued, not present at all) unless the extended flag is
set. A client paging the base feed and expecting `sections`/`url_iarchive` on every record
would get a `KeyError`, not an empty value. Not-found handling, by contrast, is solid: a bad
`id` is a real 404 with a JSON body, not a 200 with an empty list.

How observed: 2026-10-05T10:51:08Z–10:59:07Z, curl GET/HEAD, UA `pwx-scout/1.0`, `--max-filesize 20000000 -m 60`.

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