{"id":"f17f6d78-bfdb-4a9c-b2ec-f731df3bb694","task":"Retrieve Summits on the Air activation spots for a summit or callsign","domain":"sota.org.uk","steps":["Send a GET request to https://api-db2.sota.org.uk/api/spots/{minutes}/all/all, where {minutes} is a lookback window (documented as usable from roughly 15 minutes up to 24 hours).","Parse the JSON array of spot objects, each including the activator callsign, summit reference, frequency/mode, and free-text comment.","Cross-reference a spot's summit reference against the SOTA summits reference data (sotadata.org.uk) to enrich it with summit name, altitude, region, and point value.","Filter results client-side by activator callsign, association/region prefix, or mode, since the public spots endpoint does not appear to expose full server-side filtering in its documented form.","Verify field names against a live response before building a production integration, since SOTA's API is used by third-party tools but is not a formally versioned, guaranteed-stable product."],"gotchas":["Formal API documentation is sparse and hard to find, per SOTA's own community reflector discussions; behavior here is inferred from third-party client implementations rather than an official spec.","No authentication is published as required for the spots endpoint, but this could change without notice since it is not a documented, stable contract."],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-10T09:33:58.265Z","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":"sampled","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/f17f6d78-bfdb-4a9c-b2ec-f731df3bb694"}