API Evangelist enhancements for the Channel99 Pulsar API

overlay: 1.0.0
info:
  title: API Evangelist enhancements for the Channel99 Pulsar API
  version: 1.0.0
extends: openapi/channel99-pulsar-openapi.json

x-provenance:
  generated: '2026-08-12'
  method: generated
  source: >-
    Enhancements derived from the Channel99 Reporting API Developer Guide
    (https://support.channel99.com/hc/en-us/articles/49766041989787-Channel99-Reporting-API-Developer-Guide)
    and from live probes of pulsar.channel99.com. The original document at
    openapi/channel99-pulsar-openapi.json is never mutated.
  note: >-
    The single highest-value correction here is servers[]. The document as published declares
    `servers: [{url: "/"}]` - a relative server that names no host, so an agent handed only the
    spec cannot reach the API at all. Channel99's own developer guide states plainly: "All
    Reporting API endpoints use https://pulsar.channel99.com unless otherwise specified in the
    API reference." That sentence is the authority for the server URL set below.

actions:

- target: $.servers
  description: >-
    Replace the relative server with the real production host, as named by Channel99's own
    developer guide.
  update:
  - url: https://pulsar.channel99.com
    description: Production - Channel99 Pulsar (Bulk Data Transfer / Reporting) API

- target: $.info
  description: Add contact, licence-free terms pointers and external documentation identity.
  update:
    contact:
      name: Channel99 Support
      email: support@channel99.com
      url: https://support.channel99.com/hc/en-us
    termsOfService: https://www.channel99.com/terms-of-service
    x-apis-io-provider: channel99
    x-api-evangelist-note: >-
      Contact and terms are added from Channel99's published support and legal pages; the
      original document declares neither.

- target: $.externalDocs
  description: Point at the human developer guide that documents the auth exchange and reporting concepts.
  update:
    description: Channel99 Reporting API Developer Guide
    url: https://support.channel99.com/hc/en-us/articles/49766041989787-Channel99-Reporting-API-Developer-Guide

- target: $.info.x-rate-limits
  description: >-
    Surface the rate-limit tiers as structured data. They are published in the document today,
    but only as prose inside components.responses.TooManyRequests.description, where no tool can
    read them.
  update:
    documented: true
    retry_after_header: Retry-After
    status_on_exhaustion: 429
    budget_headers: false
    tiers:
    - scope: client_id
      applies_to: POST /auth/token
      limit: 20
      window: 60
      unit: requests-per-minute
    - scope: client
      applies_to: /events/* and /dimensions/*
      limit: 100
      window: 10
      unit: requests-per-10-seconds
      burst: true
    - scope: x-client-id
      applies_to: all authenticated routes
      limit: 60
      window: 1
      unit: requests-per-second
      enforced_at: waf
    - scope: client
      applies_to: /ip/*
      limit: null
      enforced_at: waf
      tier: elevated
    source: components.responses.TooManyRequests.description of the published document

- target: $.info.x-pagination
  description: Declare the cursor pagination contract at document level so a client can discover it without reading every parameter.
  update:
    style: cursor
    cursor_param: cursor
    limit_param: limit
    default_limit: 200
    max_limit: 1000
    next_field: nextCursor
    terminator: nextCursor is null
    applies_to:
    - /events/visits
    - /events/pageviews
    - /events/impressions
    - /events/intents

- target: $.info.x-error-format
  description: Declare the error envelope, which the document models as a schema but never names.
  update:
    format: custom-json
    media_type: application/json
    rfc9457: false
    fields:
    - error
    - code
    - message
    code_namespace: err:pulsar.<domain>.<condition>
    catalog: errors/channel99-problem-types.yml

- target: $.info.x-idempotency
  description: State the absence explicitly so an agent does not have to infer it.
  update:
    supported: false
    header: null
    note: >-
      No idempotency key is defined. 16 of 17 operations are GETs and are safe to retry;
      POST /auth/token is not idempotent - each call mints a new token.

- target: $.paths['/ip/{ipAddress}'].get
  description: Flag the separately-permissioned entitlement documented in the developer guide but absent from the spec.
  update:
    x-entitlement:
      separately_permissioned: true
      note: >-
        "Access to separately permissioned services, including the Channel99 IP API, is not
        enabled unless explicitly granted." A token valid for /events/* and /dimensions/* may
        still return 403 here.
      source: https://support.channel99.com/hc/en-us/articles/49766041989787-Channel99-Reporting-API-Developer-Guide

- target: $.paths['/auth/token'].post
  description: Record the token lifetime and the absence of a refresh token as structured data.
  update:
    x-token:
      lifetime_seconds: 3600
      refresh_token: false
      reissue: Re-POST the same credentials after expiry.
      pairing: >-
        Every subsequent request must carry BOTH Authorization: Bearer <token> and
        x-client-id: <client_id>; a mismatch returns 403.

- target: $.tags
  description: Add a machine-readable grouping of the tag set into fact, dimension, identity and platform families.
  update:
  - name: x-families
    description: >-
      events (Visits, Pageviews, Impressions, Intents) are fact entities; dimensions
      (Ad Accounts, Ad Campaign Groups, Ad Campaigns, Ad Groups, Ad Units, Ads, Audiences,
      Channels, Companies, Vendors) are lookup entities joined by *_id; IP Lookup is identity
      resolution; Auth and Health are platform operations. See data-model/channel99-data-model.yml.