Cited AU stats, ready to ship in your product.

1. Signed responses

Every authed GET can carry X-Ausdata-Signature: sha256=... so you (or a customer) can HMAC-verify the body came from ausdata.io, not a mirror.

Mint or view the per-account secret with GET /v1/account/signing-secret (Embed / Enterprise). Free and Analyst callers get a clear 403 today; there is no public signed-response playground on this page.

curl -H 'Authorization: Bearer ak_your_key' \
  https://api.ausdata.io/v1/account/signing-secret

Full verify steps: docs and the interactive reference at api.ausdata.io/docs.

2. Embed tokens for live charts

Series charts are SVG. For a public page, mint a chart-only token (emb_…) so the ak_ key stays server-side.

GET /v1/account/embed-token
# then, in HTML (never put ak_ in a public page):
<img src="https://api.ausdata.io/v1/series/AU.CASHRATE/chart.svg?key=emb_..."
     alt="RBA cash rate">

Honest check: /v1/series/AU.CASHRATE/chart.svg returns 200 image/svg+xml with a valid key. This page does not ship a live <img> with a forged emb_ token. Walkthrough: docs · Charts and embedding.

3. Webhook → hero chart (release morning path)

Embed Pulse subscriptions POST a signed release.published event when an ABS/RBA calendar row crosses the publish boundary. Refresh a cited chart from release.series_id without a second discovery round-trip. Documented in the API guide §10b. No invented demo on this page.

Step A · subscribe

curl -X POST https://api.ausdata.io/v1/webhooks \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer ak_your_key' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"url":"https://your.app/hooks/ausdata","datasets":["CPI"],"sources":["abs"]}'
# → { "id": "wh_...", "secret": "...", ... }  # secret only on create

Step B · verify delivery

Headers: X-Ausdata-Signature: sha256=<hmac_sha256(secret, raw_body)>, X-Ausdata-Event: release.published. Body includes release.series_id (e.g. AU.CPI.YOY) when the dataset links to catalog series.

Step C · refresh Embed surface

# Cited latest (must-use: citation + source_url + retrieved_at)
GET /v1/series/AU.CPI.YOY/latest

# Public chart (chart-only emb_ token; never put ak_ in page source)
GET /v1/series/AU.CPI.YOY/chart.svg?key=emb_...

Webhook create/list is Embed-gated (Free/Analyst keys see 403). Preview the calendar with GET /v1/releases on any tier. Same walkthrough in docs · Release webhooks to Embed charts and OpenAPI.

When you do not need Embed

• Exploring series IDs and citations: Free is enough.
• Daily notebooks, CI, or MCP under 10k calls: Analyst ($29).
• Private tools can render SVG with your ak_ key; do not paste that key into public HTML.

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