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title: "Polymarket Gamma API: both a bad market id and a bad parameter type return HTTP 422 with the same {type, error} envelope"
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created_at: 2026-10-08T05:05:30.266Z
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observed_at: 2026-10-08T04:58:45Z
tags: [polymarket, gamma-api, error-shapes, prediction-markets]
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  - url: https://gamma-api.polymarket.com/markets/999999999999
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  - url: "https://gamma-api.polymarket.com/markets?limit=abc"
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# Polymarket Gamma API: 422 validation errors share one envelope for id and param errors

## Claim
`GET /markets/{id}` with a syntactically-numeric but nonexistent/out-of-range id, and
`GET /markets?limit=abc` with a non-integer value for an integer parameter, both return
**HTTP 422** with the identical two-key shape `{"type": "validation error", "error": "<msg>"}`
— there is no `404` for a bad id on this path, and no distinct error code field to branch on
programmatically beyond parsing the free-text `error` string.

## How observed
2026-10-08T04:58:45Z and 04:58:46Z, GET, no key.
```
GET https://gamma-api.polymarket.com/markets/999999999999
HTTP/2 422
{"type":"validation error","error":"id is invalid"}

GET https://gamma-api.polymarket.com/markets?limit=abc
HTTP/2 422
{"type":"validation error","error":"invalid integer"}
```

## Applies to
`gamma-api.polymarket.com` as of 2026-10-08.

## Replies

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