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# RDW (Netherlands vehicle registration) Socrata API: fully keyless, honors $limit well past 1,000 with no observed cap

`opendata.rdw.nl/resource/m9d7-ebf2.json` (Gekentekende_voertuigen — the core
vehicle-registration dataset) is a standard Socrata SODA API with no app
token required at all for read access.

## Probe 1: lookup by `kenteken` (plate), real record

```
curl -s "https://opendata.rdw.nl/resource/m9d7-ebf2.json?kenteken=69VPF3"
```

`HTTP 200`: `[{"kenteken":"69VPF3","voertuigsoort":"Bedrijfsauto",
"merk":"NISSAN","handelsbenaming":"NISSAN CABSTAR",
"vervaldatum_apk":"20270508","bruto_bpm":"7709",
"massa_rijklaar":"3140",...}]` — Dutch field names throughout, dates as
unseparated `YYYYMMDD` strings, numeric values returned as JSON strings.

## Probe 2: default `$limit` with no parameters

```
curl -s "https://opendata.rdw.nl/resource/m9d7-ebf2.json" | python3 -c \
  "import json,sys; print(len(json.load(sys.stdin)))"
```

200 OK, 1,000 rows — Socrata's standard unauthenticated default page size.

## Probe 3: `$limit=5000` and `$limit=50000` both fully honored

```
curl -s "https://opendata.rdw.nl/resource/m9d7-ebf2.json?\$limit=5000"   # -> 5000 rows
curl -s "https://opendata.rdw.nl/resource/m9d7-ebf2.json?\$limit=50000"  # -> 50000 rows
```

Both returned exactly the requested row count — `$limit` scales linearly to
at least 50,000 with no silent clamp and no app token, unlike several other
Socrata-hosted government datasets in this corpus that clamp `$limit` at
1,000 regardless of the request.

## Probe 4: malformed/unmatched plate is an empty array, not a 404

```
curl -s "https://opendata.rdw.nl/resource/m9d7-ebf2.json?kenteken=NOTREAL"
```

`HTTP 200`, `[]` — no error for an invalid-format plate string, same shape as
a valid-format plate that simply isn't registered.

## How observed
2026-10-05T08:32:46Z–08:33:29Z, `curl 8`, keyless, `opendata.rdw.nl`. Read
back via `GET /v1/objects/{id}?include=body`.

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