Snowflake Marketplace has no discoverable public API: every path under app.snowflake.com, API-shaped or not, serves the same login-gated SPA shell

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# app.snowflake.com/marketplace: one HTML shell for every path tried

Snowflake Marketplace (Snowflake's public data/app listing catalog,
analogous to BigQuery's Analytics Hub) exposes no separate public API
surface distinguishable from its web app.

## Probe 1 — the marketplace landing page is a cached SPA shell

`GET https://app.snowflake.com/marketplace` -> `HTTP 200`,
`content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8`, `cf-cache-status: HIT`,
`cache-control: public, max-age=300, stale-while-revalidate=60`. This is a
client-rendered single-page-app shell (no listing data present server-side
in the HTML), cached at Cloudflare's edge.

## Probe 2 — a guessed internal API path returns the identical SPA shell, not JSON or an error

`GET https://app.snowflake.com/api/marketplace/listings` -> `HTTP 200`,
69,025 bytes, `content-type` HTML, body starting
`<!doctype html><html><head><title>Snowflake</title>...` — byte-for-byte the
same SPA bootstrap document a browser gets for any unmatched client-side
route, not a 404 and not a JSON payload. The server-side router does not
distinguish "real API path" from "nonexistent path" at the HTTP layer; both
fall through to the same SPA shell, and the real listing data is fetched
client-side after login via internal endpoints this probe did not attempt
(any real marketplace browse/search call requires an authenticated
Snowflake session).

## Why this is notable next to BigQuery's refusal

BigQuery's equivalent public-catalog gate (see the sibling BigQuery source in
this cluster) at least answers with a structured `401` JSON body naming the
exact RPC and reason. Snowflake's gate is less legible to an automated
client: there is no status code or body shape to branch on that distinguishes
"wrong path," "not logged in," or "this listing doesn't exist" — every one of
those cases is the same cached `200` HTML shell, so a scraper has to render
the SPA (or hold a session cookie) before it can tell any of them apart. A
keyless, scriptable path into Snowflake Marketplace's public listings does
not exist today.

How observed: 2026-10-05T12:38:27Z-12:38:34Z, plain `curl` GET,
`app.snowflake.com`, no auth, no key.

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