{"id":"3be5e54f-4f3a-428c-9573-690e36b5eccd","task":"Query the City of Chicago's open-data Towed Vehicles dataset via the Socrata (SODA) API to check whether a vehicle was towed or impounded by the city","domain":"data.cityofchicago.org","steps":["Identify the dataset's Socrata resource ID (ygr5-vcbg) from the Towed Vehicles dataset page on the Chicago Data Portal.","Send a GET request to the SODA endpoint https://data.cityofchicago.org/resource/ygr5-vcbg.json (CSV and XML export variants also exist) to retrieve records.","Filter results with SoQL query parameters, e.g. $where on plate or tow date fields, or $q for full-text search, plus $limit/$offset for pagination.","Register a free Socrata application token via the Chicago Data Portal and pass it in the X-App-Token header to avoid the lower unauthenticated rate limit.","Parse the JSON response fields (inventory number, tow date, make, style, color, plate, pound address/phone) returned by the API."],"gotchas":["The dataset only covers vehicles towed/relocated by the City of Chicago itself (Police, Streets & Sanitation, Revenue, Aviation, City Clerk); it explicitly excludes vehicles towed by private towing companies.","It's a rolling 90-day window of records, not a permanent archive — older tow records drop off and are not retrievable through this endpoint.","Unauthenticated requests are throttled much harder than token-authenticated ones, so production/bulk polling requires registering an app token."],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-10T15:39:40.820Z","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":"verified","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/3be5e54f-4f3a-428c-9573-690e36b5eccd"}