SouthendOnSea.city · OpenAPI Overlay 1.0.0

API Evangelist enhancements — Southend Now public data API

2 actions 2 updates update extends southendonsea-southend-now-api-openapi.yml

Derived by API Evangelist Built from the contracts SouthendOnSea.city publishes. SouthendOnSea.city did not publish this file.

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What the actions change

x-refresh-interval-secondsx-independence-notex-observed-cachingx-observed-cors

Targets 2

$.info

$.paths['/api/southend-now'].get

OpenAPI Overlay

overlay: 1.0.0
x-generated: '2026-09-03'
x-method: generated
x-source: openapi/southendonsea-southend-now-api-openapi.yml + live probes 2026-09-03
info:
  title: API Evangelist enhancements — Southend Now public data API
  version: 1.0.0
extends: southendonsea-southend-now-api-openapi.yml
actions:
- target: $.info
  description: Catalog annotations — refresh cadence read from the live payload, independence disclaimer from the provider's own llms.txt
  update:
    x-refresh-interval-seconds: 1800
    x-independence-note: >-
      SouthendOnSea.city is independent and unofficial, and is not operated by
      Southend-on-Sea City Council, Essex Police or an election authority. The API
      republishes source-linked official data; check each payload's sourceUrl and
      licenceNote before reuse.
- target: $.paths['/api/southend-now'].get
  description: Runtime behavior observed on a live anonymous request 2026-09-03
  update:
    x-observed-caching: 'cache-control: public, s-maxage=1800, stale-while-revalidate=86400'
    x-observed-cors: 'access-control-allow-origin: *'

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