Query the Texas Secretary of State's open-data catalog of notary public commissions programmatically via its Socrata Open Data API (SODA), rather than scraping the SOSDirect web search form.
domain: data.texas.gov · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Locate the 'Texas Notary Public Commissions' dataset on the Texas Open Data Portal at data.texas.gov/dataset/Texas-Notary-Public-Commissions/gmd3-bnrd.
Confirm the dataset has a Socrata dataset ID of gmd3-bnrd and is documented in the Socrata API Foundry at dev.socrata.com/foundry/data.texas.gov/gmd3-bnrd, which follows the standard SODA REST convention.
Query the dataset programmatically using the standard SODA resource endpoint pattern (https://data.texas.gov/resource/gmd3-bnrd.json), applying SoQL query parameters (e.g. $limit, $where, $q) as documented at dev.socrata.com/docs/queries/.
Use an app token (per dev.socrata.com/docs/app-tokens) for higher throttling limits if making repeated queries.
Cross-reference results against the official SOSDirect Notary Search (see companion route) when verifying a single notary's live commission status, since bulk open-data exports may lag behind real-time SOSDirect records.
Known gotchas
Socrata/data.texas.gov was acquired by Tyler Technologies in 2018 and rebranded 'Data & Insights' — dev.socrata.com documentation still applies but references Tyler in places.
The open-data extract is a bulk dataset, not necessarily real-time; for time-sensitive verification of an individual notary's active status, use the official SOSDirect search instead.
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