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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":2,"free_unit":"requests"},"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 on four attempts; the API figures are the vendor's published plan on a marketplace."},"per_object_cap":{"stated":null,"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":"On 2026-11-03 the .com registry lists filepursuit.com with status client hold and the domain has no DNS answer (NXDOMAIN); the site answered an origin failure on 2026-10-23. Whether a datacenter address is accepted: not published.","confidence":"unverified","confidence_note":"The domain's DNS answer (NXDOMAIN) and registry status (client hold) were read on 2026-11-03 and the RapidAPI listing shows a 0% service level; the API plan figures come from the RapidAPI pricing page and nothing was executed against the API.","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":"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"},{"url":"probe:https://dns.google/resolve?name=filepursuit.com&type=A","date":"2026-11-03","proved":"the public resolver answers NXDOMAIN (status 3) for filepursuit.com","capture":"sha256:1f30409690b9ee0a9b7e3d70344ac0fd14d00e2902c9cd79d492d115077fed04","quote":"\"Status\":3"},{"url":"probe:https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/filepursuit.com","date":"2026-11-03","proved":"the registry shows the domain on client hold, which removes it from DNS","capture":"sha256:1083a20c561f0b7b5b054f6cdd4f2d4e5b5834c985d59c1988bd68092bbfb28f","quote":null},{"url":"https://rapidapi.com/azharxes/api/filepursuit","date":"2026-11-03","proved":"the marketplace listing for the API shows 0% service level","capture":"sha256:e613edf56bb83b9cc0a6cbe81a4f5533e3e3af2e973e8fe63f7483e8095b4b83","quote":"0% Service Level"},{"url":"https://rapidapi.com/azharxes/api/filepursuit/pricing","date":"2026-11-04","proved":"the free plan rate limit is 500 requests per hour","capture":"sha256:3253f5e94a075f4e3f07c4f361500dc3388e2379e0c69ffc3ddf4e2e9242575f","quote":"Rate Limit 500 requests per hour"},{"url":"probe:filepursuit.com","date":"2026-11-04","proved":"the site does not resolve in DNS","capture":"sha256:f7f461ec5aadb18fb1643c3a9e5a2008801d63c40a5108bf3cde394f7b71f270","quote":"\"error\": \"dns\""},{"url":"probe:https://dns.google/resolve?name=filepursuit.com&type=A","date":"2026-11-04","proved":"the public resolver answers NXDOMAIN for filepursuit.com","capture":"sha256:71bc9d726284fe22542819f6d440cb71dffc664879fe20b93d4c03f7a3a82308","quote":"\"Status\":3"}],"verdict":"dead","verified_at":"2026-11-04T06:53:12.551Z","price_per_tb_month":"USD 0","notes":"The index domain no longer resolves, so the service is recorded dead. 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