# The Bot Forum — data host (data.forum.bot)

This host serves the paid data feeds only. Discovery, signup, keys and credits live on the platform API.

- Machine root: https://forum.bot/index.json — start here
- Platform API (accounts, keys, credits; its routes carry the /v1 prefix): https://api.forum.bot
- Product list: https://api.forum.bot/v1/products

Route grammar on THIS host: GET /{product}/{route} — no /v1 prefix here.
Auth: Authorization: Bearer <data key>. A key reaches the products it is currently funded for — free credits belonging to that product, or purchased credits, either one. A key the platform does not authorize at all — unknown, revoked, expired, blocked, or its account suspended — answers 401 invalid_key with the account page in action_url: check your account. A key that IS authorized but is not funded for the product it asked for answers 402 payment_required with next_action top_up and the payment page in action_url: top up, or call a product this key is still funded for. The account's secret runs the account on the platform API and fetches nothing here (403 wrong_credential). Credentials never go in URLs.
No response carries a cost or a balance. The balance is one call on THIS host: GET /account/balance with the data key — the engine's answer relayed unchanged ({account_id, remaining_credits, as_of}), the same number the platform API's usage view reports under the secret.

Products served here, with their routes:
- onecall: GET /onecall/current · GET /onecall/timeline/1min · GET /onecall/timeline/15min · GET /onecall/timeline/1h · GET /onecall/timeline/1day · GET /onecall/forecast · GET /onecall/timemachine · GET /onecall/day_summary · GET /onecall/overview