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The API is documented on RapidAPI as a Basic plan at $0.00/month with 3,000 requests per day and 500 requests per hour.","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":0},"record":{"topic":"debrid","slug":"filepursuit","provider":"FilePursuit","url":"https://filepursuit.com/","category":"file-host search engine (index over public file links) + metered JSON API","tier":"free","free_tier":{"stated":"The site was not readable today. The API is documented on RapidAPI as a Basic plan at $0.00/month with 3,000 requests per day and 500 requests per hour.","unit":"requests","metered_on":"request-count","source_url":"https://rapidapi.com/azharxes/api/filepursuit/pricing","read_on":"2026-10-23","notes":"The website itself returned HTTP 530 through the broker on four attempts; the API figures are the vendor's published plan on a marketplace we could read."},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable: a search result, not an object we store","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://filepursuit.com/","notes":""},"retention":{"stated":"unknown: the index's own retention was not readable, and the API terms say nothing about how long a link stays in the index","days":null,"source_url":"https://filepursuit.com/","notes":""},"egress":{"terms":"the API returns links, not bytes; bytes come from whichever host the link names","metered":true,"free_allowance":"3,000 requests/day on the free RapidAPI plan","price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://rapidapi.com/azharxes/api/filepursuit/pricing"},"interface":["rest"],"interface_detail":"RapidAPI JSON endpoint with an X-RapidAPI-Key header; the site itself is HTML. The API is also offered through third-party clients (filepursuit-cli, go-filepursuit, a PyPI scraper).","endpoint":"rapidapi.com/azharxes/api/filepursuit","tooling":"The PyPI 'filepursuit' scraper and a Go client exist. Both drive the site rather than the paid API, and the scraper's own documentation says the site answers a flood of requests with a captcha.","chaining":"Query the index for a filename, then hand the file-host URL to a debrid service. The value is discovery: the index is what tells you which public link exists.","limits":[{"kind":"request-rate","value":"500 requests per hour on the free RapidAPI plan, with a hard cap of 3,000 requests per day","source":"https://rapidapi.com/azharxes/api/filepursuit/pricing"}],"limits_note":"The free plan also meters bandwidth at 10,240 MB/month plus $0.001 per 1 MB over. A third-party scraper reports that flooding the site triggers a captcha, which is the HTML path's limit rather than the API's.","binding":"request-rate","binding_note":"500/hour is 0.14 req/s, so enumeration stops long before any byte quota does; and the API additionally requires an account, which is recorded under identity_cost.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"The API needs a RapidAPI account and key, which is an email signup; the amount of identity RapidAPI demands beyond that was not established because the signup flow was not entered.","country":null},"reliability_note":"The site answered HTTP 530 four times on 2026-10-23, which is Cloudflare reporting an origin failure. The API is a third-party marketplace listing, so its availability is a second dependency on top of the index.","confidence":"unverified","confidence_note":"The site itself produced no page: four broker attempts returned HTTP 530 (broker exit 4 on some, an origin failure on others) and no archive capture after 2025-11-25 was reachable. The API numbers came from the RapidAPI pricing page, which is the vendor's plan page and was read today, but nothing was executed against the API. A successful API call would settle both the index's liveness and the real quota.","evidence":[{"url":"https://rapidapi.com/azharxes/api/filepursuit/pricing","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"Basic $0.00/mo, 'Requests 3,000 / Day Hard Limit', 'Rate Limit 500 requests per hour', 10240 MB/month bandwidth"},{"url":"https://filepursuit.com/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"four broker attempts returned HTTP 530; nothing was established about the live site"},{"url":"https://pypi.org/project/filepursuit/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"a third-party scraper's README says FilePursuit answers flooding with a captcha"}],"verdict":"fails-identity","verified_at":"2026-10-23T01:52:28.000Z","price_per_tb_month":"USD 0","notes":"Not recorded as dead: HTTP 530 is an origin failure, and the API is a separate endpoint that may still answer. The identity finding is independent of the outage, because the machine interface is behind a RapidAPI key whatever the website does.","extras":{"http_status_observed":530,"attempts":4,"api_marketplace":"RapidAPI","anonymous_api":false}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":3000.0,"unit":"requests","per":"day","currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:request-rate","num":500.0,"unit":"requests","per":"hour","currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.price_per_tb_month","kind":"price-per-tb","num":0.0,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":0.0,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[],"history":[],"drift":[]}]}