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GET/reference/fscs

FSCS banking licences

Every brand we track with the banking licence that protects its deposits (legal name, scheme, country, owner) and the other brands on the same licence, which share one limit, plus the FSCS limits as numbers.

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Covers UK FSCS banks, NS&I, EU and offshore banks, and platforms and e-money firms that aren't banks. providerSlug matches /rates and /reference/providers, and is null for a brand with no provider there. One price for the whole list.

Cost

1 DS Credit

per request

Scope

providers:read

Same data as

—

the DepositScout website

Request

GET https://depositscout.com/api/developer/v1/reference/fscs

No parameters.

Example

shell
curl "https://depositscout.com/api/developer/v1/reference/fscs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $DS_API_KEY"

Try it

Runs against this site. A ds_test_ key is free and returns sample data in the real shape; a live key returns real data and spends credits. The key is kept in this tab only.

No key yet? Create an account or sign in for a free test key.
GET /api/developer/v1/reference/fscs
as curl
curl "/api/developer/v1/reference/fscs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ds_test_…"

Response

data is a single object. Every 2xx also sets X-DS-Request-Id, X-DS-Credits-Charged, X-DS-Credits-Balance, the X-RateLimit-* trio and an ETag.

response.json
{
  "data": {
    "…": "the item"
  },
  "meta": {
    "requestId": "req_7f3a9c2d1b4e5a6f7c8d",
    "generatedAt": "2026-09-21T09:00:00.000Z",
    "creditsCharged": 1,
    "creditsBalance": 199,
    "attribution": "Rates powered by DepositScout — depositscout.com"
  }
}

Errors

What this endpoint can return instead of data. Every error has the same shape: error (a stable code to branch on), message (what to do next), requestId and a docs link, plus the extra fields shown. None of them is charged.

401missing_api_key— No Authorization header, or it isn't a Bearer token.
401 missing_api_key.json
{
  "error": "missing_api_key",
  "message": "Send your key as 'Authorization: Bearer ds_live_…'. Create one at https://depositscout.com/developer.",
  "requestId": "req_7f3a9c2d1b4e5a6f7c8d",
  "docs": "https://depositscout.com/developers/docs#missing_api_key"
}
403insufficient_scope— The key doesn't carry the scope the endpoint needs.
403 insufficient_scope.json
{
  "error": "insufficient_scope",
  "message": "This key doesn't have the 'providers:read' scope.",
  "requestId": "req_7f3a9c2d1b4e5a6f7c8d",
  "docs": "https://depositscout.com/developers/docs#insufficient_scope",
  "required": "providers:read"
}
402insufficient_credits— Balance is lower than the call's cost. A list whose page you can't fully afford is cut to the rows your balance covers instead (meta.limit and X-DS-Limit-Reduced say so), so this only happens below one row's price. Body has required, balance and topUp.
402 insufficient_credits.json
{
  "error": "insufficient_credits",
  "message": "Not enough DS Credits for this request. Top up at https://depositscout.com/developer/credits.",
  "requestId": "req_7f3a9c2d1b4e5a6f7c8d",
  "docs": "https://depositscout.com/developers/docs#insufficient_credits",
  "required": 1,
  "balance": 0,
  "topUp": "https://depositscout.com/developer/credits"
}
429rate_limited— Burst or daily limit hit. Retry-After tells you when.
429 rate_limited.json
{
  "error": "rate_limited",
  "message": "Too many requests. Retry after 12s.",
  "requestId": "req_7f3a9c2d1b4e5a6f7c8d",
  "docs": "https://depositscout.com/developers/docs#rate_limited",
  "retryAfter": 12
}

Every code is listed in the shared error contract. Back to all endpoints.