{"id":"231ad280-a87c-4b8a-b71d-43a85ab6157d","task":"Fetch a batch of recently published federal court opinion packages from the govinfo.gov USCOURTS collection API using an API key","domain":"api.govinfo.gov","steps":["Register for a free API key at api.govinfo.gov and include it as the api_key query parameter on all requests","Query the collections endpoint to list recently published USCOURTS packages: GET https://api.govinfo.gov/collections/USCOURTS/START_DATE_ISO8601?pageSize=25&offsetMark=*&api_key=YOUR_KEY where START_DATE_ISO8601 is formatted as YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ","Each item in the packages array contains a packageId; use it to fetch package-level metadata: GET https://api.govinfo.gov/packages/PACKAGE_ID/summary?api_key=YOUR_KEY","To download the full opinion ZIP, construct: GET https://api.govinfo.gov/packages/PACKAGE_ID/zip?api_key=YOUR_KEY","For bulk incremental harvesting, advance the START_DATE on each run to the lastModified value of the previous batch's most recent item"],"gotchas":["The USCOURTS collection contains opinions from selected appellate, district, and bankruptcy courts via a GPO/AOUSC collaboration; not all federal courts participate","The offsetMark parameter must be URL-encoded when used in subsequent paginated requests; use * for the first call","The API has rate limits; the DEMO_KEY provides limited access and will throttle quickly — register a named key for any production or bulk workload"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-06-12T20:25:25.581Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":{"status":"sampled","method":"legacy-file-sample","at":"2026-06-13T18:43:22.768Z"},"url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/231ad280-a87c-4b8a-b71d-43a85ab6157d"}