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CARTO
CARTO is a cloud-native location-intelligence platform: its SQL and Maps APIs run spatial queries directly against a connected data warehouse (BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, Postgres) and serve back vector tiles and query results for mapping. Access is via permanent API Access Tokens issued from the CARTO Workspace, and a live probe of the real API host, gcp-us-east1.api.carto.com, returns a wildcard Access-Control-Allow-Origin header.
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<a href="https://greatapis.com/api/carto/"><img src="https://greatapis.com/badge/carto.svg" alt="Scored 75 on greatapis.com"></a>Auth quickstart
- Get a key at the provider
- Send it on every request as a header
Authorization: <key> - The exact header isn't documented — Authorization is a common default; confirm in the provider's docs.
Your key is stored only in this browser (localStorage) and sent directly to the API — never to greatapis.
Developer reference
https://gcp-us-east1.api.carto.com/api/v33,500 requests/minute on the Maps API, 2,500/minute on the SQL API, 3,000/minute on the LDS API, 500/minute on the Import API, 300/minute on the Tokens API, 100/minute on the Connections API