Enumerate every model a manufacturer sold in a given model year via NHTSA's vPIC taxonomy database. Returns canonical NHTSA Model IDs + names plus the Make ID + name for reference. Useful as a discovery step before VIN decode (when the agent only knows make + year) or as input validation for vehicle.recalls / vehicle.complaints. Backed by NHTSA.gov; data is public-domain US government records.

Find US federal + state appellate judges by name in CourtListener's People DB. Query by firstName (case-insensitive prefix), lastName (case-insensitive prefix), or both — at least one required. Returns id, full name + components, dates of birth/death, gender, education (school, degree level, year), political affiliations (party + appointing executive period), count of distinct judicial positions, and canonical CourtListener URL per match. Pairs with law.case-search + law.attorney-lookup to complete the WHO graph of a legal research workflow. Backed by CourtListener (Free Law Project); underlying data is public domain.

US House of Representatives roll-call votes, newest first by action date. Each record includes year + roll number, congress/session, vote question + type + result, action date/time, bill reference (legis_num), description, grand totals (yea/nay/present/not-voting), AND per-party breakdown (Republican/Democratic/Independent yea/nay/present/not-voting counts). Filters (all optional, AND-combined): year, congress, result substring, bill substring (legis_num ILIKE), since/until (action_date), limit + offset. Locally aggregated from clerk.house.gov XML feeds (refreshed daily by cron). Public-domain US government records.

Search federal awards (contracts, grants, loans, direct payments) from USAspending.gov. Largest amount first within the date window. Each record includes award ID, recipient name, dollar amount, award type, awarding agency + sub-agency, start + end dates, description, and a permalink to the usaspending.gov detail page. Filter by recipient name, awarding agency name, recipient state, award type group, and date range. Backed by USAspending.gov's spending_by_award API; public-domain US government records.

Search ClinicalTrials.gov — every registered US (and many international) clinical study (~500k trials). Free-text query matches title + condition + intervention; or direct lookup by NCT ID. Optional filters: recruitment status, lead sponsor, phase (PHASE1..PHASE4), country. Each record includes NCT ID, brief + official title, status, phases, study type, conditions list, interventions (with type + name), enrollment count + type, key dates (start / primary completion / completion / first posted / last update), lead sponsor + class (INDUSTRY/NIH/OTHER), hasResults flag, brief summary, and canonical clinicaltrials.gov URL. Public-domain NIH NLM data.

Find US attorneys by name in CourtListener's RECAP corpus (PACER-derived attorney directory). Query by name (case-insensitive prefix match: "Jennifer Lee" matches "Jennifer Lee Pasquarella" but not "Sara Jennifer Lee"), optional firm/contact-text contains filter, and limit (1-50, default 10). Returns id, normalized name, parsed firm + mailing address, phone, email, fax, count of known (docket, party) appearances, and canonical CourtListener URL per match. Use for opposing-counsel research, conflict checks, and "who has filed this type of motion in this district" queries. Underlying data is public domain (PACER filings); the directory itself is maintained by Free Law Project.

FDIC-insured US bank directory lookup. Lookup by name (fuzzy match), FDIC certificate number, RSSD ID, or state. Each record includes name + short name, web address, active flag, city/state/county/zip, established + insured dates, charter class, bank class, primary federal regulator, number of branches, assets and deposits ($1000s), and closed-date + reason for inactive institutions. Public-domain FDIC data, free.

Chronological feed of NHTSA ODI (Office of Defects Investigation) investigations, newest first. Returns preliminary evaluations (PE), engineering analyses (EA), defect petitions (DP), and recall queries (RQ) — each with NHTSA ID, type code, open/close dates, status, subject, and full description (HTML stripped + raw). Useful for tracking what NHTSA is currently investigating (Tesla FSD, autonomous-vehicle crashes, Rivian suspension, etc.). NOTE: NHTSA's endpoint does NOT support make/model/year filtering — use vehicle.recalls or vehicle.complaints for vehicle-scoped lookups. Public-domain US government records.

Look up a public GitHub repository by "owner/name" slug. Returns full name, owner, description, homepage, default branch, primary language, topics, license (SPDX key + name), counts (stars / forks / watchers / open issues / subscribers / network), size, timestamps (created/updated/pushed), visibility, has-issues/projects/wiki/discussions flags. Unauthenticated GitHub access is rate-limited to 60 req/hour per server IP — returns 429 UPSTREAM_RATE_LIMIT when the bucket is empty.

Open Library book metadata search. Lookup by free-text query (matches title + author), or by individual title / author / ISBN (10 or 13 digit). Each record includes Open Library work key, title, author names + Open Library author keys, first publish year, edition count, cover image URL, sample ISBNs, publishers, languages, subject tags, fulltext flag, ebook access tier (public/borrowable/printdisabled/no_ebook), and canonical openlibrary.org URL. CC0 public-domain metadata.

Daily reference exchange rates from the European Central Bank (via Frankfurter). 30+ major currencies. Pass base = 3-letter ISO 4217 currency (default USD), optional symbols = comma-separated target codes (default = all available), optional date = YYYY-MM-DD for historical rates (history back to 1999, business days only; omit for latest), optional amount to convert (default 1). Returns base, date, amount, and a map of currency code → rate.

Search FEC Schedule A — every itemized contribution to a federal political committee (>264M rows across all cycles). Filter by recipient committeeId or candidateId, contributor name / city / state / zip / employer / occupation, amount range, cycle (twoYearTransactionPeriod e.g. 2024), date range, isIndividual (true = individuals only; false = committee-to-committee). Sort by contribution date or amount, asc/desc. Requires at least one scope (committeeId, candidateId, twoYearTransactionPeriod cycle, or a date range) — an unscoped query scans every cycle and times out. The investigative-journalism + political-research goldmine: who gives, how much, when, working where, doing what. Each row carries the contribution receipt date, amount, contributor aggregate YTD, receipt type, memo, entity type, and link to the underlying PDF filing.

Resolve a food product barcode (UPC, EAN-13, EAN-8, etc.) to structured product metadata via Open Food Facts — the CC0 community-maintained database of >3M food products. Returns product name, brand, ingredient list, allergens, nutriments (per-100g + per-serving), Nutri-Score grade (a-e), NOVA processing classification (1-4), Eco-Score, categories, manufacturing origin, packaging, and product image URLs.

US Bureau of Labor Statistics time-series data. Pass seriesIds = comma-separated BLS series IDs (1-10 per call), optional startYear + endYear bracket (max 10 years). Each observation: year, period (M01-M12 monthly, Q01-Q04 quarterly, A01 annual, S01/S02 semiannual), periodName, value (verbatim string from BLS) + numericValue (parsed number), latest flag, footnote texts. Common series IDs: LNS14000000 (unemployment rate), CUUR0000SA0 (CPI-U all items), CES0000000001 (nonfarm employment), LNS11300000 (labor force participation). Unauthenticated upstream — ~25 queries/day per IP.

Search US colleges + universities via the Department of Education College Scorecard API. Filter by free-text name (q), OPE/IPEDS school id, state, city, zip, ownership (1=Public | 2=Private nonprofit | 3=Private for-profit), predominant degree level (0=Not classified | 1=Certificate | 2=Associate | 3=Bachelor | 4=Graduate), enrollment range. Returns a curated field set per school: identity (name, alias, URL, location), classification (Carnegie, locale, religious affiliation, minority-serving designation), latest admissions (admit rate, SAT/ACT midpoints), cost (in-state + out-of-state tuition, total cost of attendance), aid (median debt, federal-loan rate, Pell rate), completion rate, 10-year median earnings, repayment rate, lat/lon. Every accredited US institution. Use perPage + page for pagination; page is 0-indexed.

Global natural events tracker via NASA EONET v3 (Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker). Returns active and historical events curated by NASA EOSDIS: wildfires, severe storms, volcanoes, floods, droughts, landslides, sea/lake ice, dust/haze, manmade incidents, water-color anomalies. Each event includes geo-located observation points with timestamps, source attribution (USGS, NWS, IRWIN, GDACS, etc.), and category. Filter by status (open/closed/all), days-back window, category, or bounding box.

Fetch a specific Hacker News item (story, comment, job, poll) by its numeric ID. Returns id, type, author, time (unix + ISO), title, URL, text, score, descendant count, kid count, parent (for comments), dead/deleted flags, canonical news.ycombinator.com URL.

Search OSHA-investigated workplace accident reports via US Department of Labor Open Data Portal (~165k accidents). Each row carries summary number, related inspection number, report id, event date, narrative, nature of injury, body part affected, source of injury, occupation, age, sex, degree of injury (1 = fatality, 2 = hospitalized, 3 = no lost time, etc.). Filter by event date range, nature of injury code, fatality flag. Pair with /api/gov/osha-inspections + /api/gov/osha-violations to follow injury → investigation → citations.

Resolve a DOI to authoritative bibliographic metadata via Crossref. Accepts bare DOI (10.1038/nature12373) or full DOI URL (https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12373). Returns work type, title, container (journal/conference), publisher, issued/published dates, abstract, authors (with ORCID + affiliations), page range, volume/issue, ISBN + ISSN lists, canonical URL, reference + citation counts, license blocks, and subject classifications. ~160M works in Crossref. Best authoritative DOI → bibliographic resolver. Metadata is CC0.

Fetch a USAJobs reference codelist (lookup tables behind every federal job posting). Pass name to pick which list: agencysubelements (every agency + sub-element), occupationalseries (2210 IT, 0301 Misc Admin, 0801 Engineer, etc.), paygrades, payplans (GS, SES, ES, WG, etc.), hiringpaths (veteran, military spouse, native American, etc.), securityclearances, locationcodes, countries, countrysubdivisions, ethnicities, racecodes, militarystatuscodes, languagecodes, positionscheduletypecodes (full-time/part-time/seasonal), travelpercentages, missioncriticalcodes, cyberworkroles, etc. (33 lists total). Use the returned codes as filter inputs to /api/job/federal-search.