tokened REST API

A REST interface that authenticates requests with an issued token rather than open anonymous calls, returning JSON or XML.

OpenCorporates pairs it with SFTP bulk delivery so consumers can choose between live lookups and scheduled file drops.

In this catalog it appears concretely: - OpenCorporates - World's Largest Open Legal-Entity Database — "delivered through web search, a tokened REST API (JSON/XML) and SFTP bulk delivery".

Access method sets your maintenance bill. Delivery routes change, layouts drift and scrapers rot quietly; whoever operates your pipeline inherits all of it, which is why access should be priced alongside the license itself.

The failure mode is concrete: a source can carry the tokened REST API label while differing from what you need on exactly the dimension that matters — delivered through web search, a tokened REST API (JSON/XML) and SFTP bulk delivery. Comparing two sources on that line usually settles the choice faster than any feature matrix.

You rarely have to take a vendor's word for it. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets Datadory catalogs are free to access, and OpenCorporates - World's Largest Open Legal-Entity Database lets you inspect the real artifact before any budget is committed.

Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:

1. Open OpenCorporates - World's Largest Open Legal-Entity Database and confirm its record — "delivered through web search, a tokened REST API (JSON/XML) and SFTP bulk delivery" — against the files you actually receive.
2. Pin down update cadence in writing. Across this catalog, 22.6% of 1,744 datasets refresh daily and 64 still arrive only through a manual request form, so ask exactly how fresh each release is.
3. Check whether definitions are verified at all. Field definitions are verified for 1495 of 1,744 datasets (85.7%), and any source you license should meet that bar.
4. Price the delivery route before the license. In this catalog bulk download is the most common access method (725 datasets) ahead of official APIs (574), and 379 sources still require scraping — a maintenance cost that lands on you, not the vendor.

See the term applied to real records: multi-sector-holdings data, technology-distributors data.

Adjacent concepts worth reading next: - census integration key - SFTP bulk delivery - SPARQL endpoint search