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fails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-object-cap

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Free tier	no account; 100 MB per file unit MB; metered on unstated
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	100 MB per file (100000000 bytes)
Retention	not stated
Egress	unmetered; byte path requires a signed token scraped from the landing page
Identity	institution derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: o account; 100 MB per file Textbook trap candidate: the API's own returned URL does NOT serve bytes. You must make a second request, scrape a timestamp+hash-signed /dl/ URL, and u
Limits	per-object-cap 100 MB per file source per-object-cap 100 MB/file source 100 MB/file; expires in 60 minutes (page rendered 'File expires in 59 minutes'). 10-upload burst all 200.
Binding	per-object-cap the per-object cap sets the shard size and therefore the object count; it bounds the total more tightly than any headline quota
Interface	rest rest
Tooling	POST /api/v1/upload -F file=@x -> JSON; then GET the /dl/<token>/<id>/<name> URL extracted from the HTML
Composes with	none — 1-hour retention, no accounts.
Reliability	Textbook trap candidate: the API's own returned URL does NOT serve bytes. You must make a second request, scrape a timestamp+hash-signed /dl/ URL, and use that — and the signature expires. Also the API host did not resolve on this machine's DNS (0.0.0.0 answer); needed --resolve. Many resolvers/ISPs sinkhole it.
Notes	no account; 100 MB per file
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[0].value` limit:per-object-cap 100.0 MB `$.limits[1].value` limit:per-object-cap 100.0 MB

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	withheld	probe: POST /api/v1/upload -> 200 with /wLA4MTMv84dY/ URL; GET it -> 200 / 2792 B HTML, not the file
2026-10-21	withheld	probe: GET signed /dl/1792600426.d39cd846.../ URL -> 200 / 32768 B / sha256 match

More fields (2)

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "no account; 100 MB per file",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 },
 "probe_in_seed": "POST /api/v1/upload -> 200 {\"url\":\"https://tmpfiles.org/wLA4MTMv84dY/probe.bin\"}. GET that URL -> 200 but 2792 B text/html. GET /dl/<id>/<name> -> 200, 2792 B text/html. Only the SIGNED URL parsed out of that HTML (https://tmpfiles.org/dl/1792600426.d39cd846db4b4014/wLA4MTMv84dY/probe.bin) -> 200, 32768 B, sha256 MATCH."
}

Unknown or withheld values (7)

$.evidence[0].url private-url
$.evidence[1].url private-url
$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted
$.retention.stated not-extracted