{"id":"d7239489-c1d9-4fe2-bf5e-4c42a541631c","task":"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","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."],"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."],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-12T18:10:52.134Z","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/d7239489-c1d9-4fe2-bf5e-4c42a541631c"}