René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"per_page has no documented max, and oversized values are clamped silently","articleBody":"### Code of Conduct\n\n- [x] I have read and agree to the GitHub Docs project's [Code of Conduct](https://github.com/github/docs/blob/main/.github/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md)\n\n### What article on docs.github.com is affected?\n\nhttps://docs.github.com/en/rest/using-the-rest-api/using-pagination-in-the-rest-api\n\n### What part(s) of the article would you like to see updated?\n\nThe per_page section says you can control page size. No max, no note on what happens past it.\n\nper_page=100000 returns 200 with the page clamped to 100. No error. This same doc set uses 422 for invalid params elsewhere, so clamping instead of rejecting is a real surprise — a caller can under-fetch results and never know it.\n\nAdd the max value and the clamp behavior here.\n\n### Additional information\n\nReliably reproducible. Verified with a black-box pytest suite: test_oversized_per_page_is_clamped_not_rejected in https://github.com/jornith/octoprobe","author":{"url":"https://github.com/jornith","@type":"Person","name":"jornith"},"datePublished":"2026-07-17T07:14:50.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1},"url":"https://github.com/45188/docs/issues/45188"}