> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://vaquill.ai/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# List delivery history for a watch

> The most recent webhook delivery attempts for a watch you own, newest first. Only webhook/both channel watches have delivery history; an email-only watch always returns an empty list here (email sends are not logged per-attempt). Test deliveries (`POST /watches/{id}/test`) never appear -- they are deliberately not persisted.

`consecutiveFailures` counts how many of the most recent attempts failed in a row, and `deliveryHealth` is `failing` once that reaches 3. Read them before reading the list: a watch can keep firing on schedule and delivering nothing, and the streak is the only field that distinguishes that from a bad day. `consecutiveFailuresTruncated` is true when the streak fills the whole page, meaning the real run is at least this long.

**Nothing notifies you when a webhook starts failing. Poll this route.** We alert ourselves after 3 consecutive failures, but we send you no email and no callback, and a failing receiver is in your infrastructure rather than ours. A watch stays active and keeps being dispatched while every delivery fails, so silence from your endpoint is not evidence that the law did not change. Check `deliveryHealth` on a schedule of your own.

`error` on each attempt says WHY it failed, including the redirect target when an endpoint answered 3xx. Deliveries do not follow redirects: a 3xx is a failed delivery, not a delivered one, so register the endpoint's final URL.

**Free.**



## OpenAPI

````yaml https://api.vaquill.ai/external/openapi.json get /api/v1/watches/{watch_id}/deliveries
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Vaquill Developer API
  description: >-
    Public API for legal statutes and legislation.


    **Authentication**: Pass your API key as `Authorization: Bearer vq_key_...`
    (preferred) or in the `X-API-Key` header. The `api_key` query parameter also
    works where a header cannot be set, but a URL ends up in logs and browser
    history. Sending two different keys in one request is rejected with a 401.


    **Credits**: Each call costs API credits. See `GET
    /api/v1/api-credits/pricing` for the full pricing matrix.


    ## Jurisdictions


    | Jurisdiction | Coverage | `countryCode` |

    |---|---|---|

    | **United States** | USC and the Statutes at Large, the CFR and its annual
    editions, all 52 state and territory statutory codes (50 states plus DC and
    Puerto Rico), state administrative regulations, court rules, federal and
    state constitutions, federal agency guidance and adjudications, the Federal
    Register, the Sentencing Guidelines and US tax treaties. | `US` |


    See the full [Coverage page](https://www.vaquill.ai/docs/api-guide/coverage)
    for the jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction breakdown, or call
    `/us/statutes/coverage` for live counts. Coverage is per (jurisdiction,
    corpusType) pair, so treat that endpoint as the authoritative list rather
    than this summary.


    ## Endpoints


    - **US Statutes**: Search and retrieve any of the corpora above with full
    text, resolve a citation to its exact section, browse the statutory
    hierarchy, read a section as it stood on a past date, and follow its change
    history, cross-references and defined terms

    - **Board Watches**: Subscribe to a corpus source and get a webhook or email
    when it refreshes with real changes (free, API key required)

    - **Pricing**: Credit costs per endpoint (no auth required)


    ## Rate limits


    Limits are enforced per API key and scale with your plan. A `429` response
    includes a `Retry-After` header.


    | Plan | Per minute | Per hour | Per day |

    |---|---|---|---|

    | Vaquill API Pro | 60 | 1,000 | 2,000 |

    | Vaquill API Business | 150 | 2,500 | 10,000 |


    For full documentation, visit the [API
    Reference](https://www.vaquill.ai/docs/api-reference/).
  version: 1.0.0
  contact:
    name: Vaquill API Support
    url: https://www.vaquill.ai
    email: support@vaquill.ai
  license:
    name: Proprietary
    url: https://www.vaquill.ai/terms
  termsOfService: https://www.vaquill.ai/terms
servers:
  - url: https://api.vaquill.ai
    description: Production
security:
  - ApiKeyAuth: []
  - ApiKeyHeader: []
  - ApiKeyQuery: []
tags:
  - name: US Statutes
    description: >-
      Search and retrieve US primary law. Covers the United States Code and the
      Statutes at Large, the Code of Federal Regulations and its annual
      editions, state statutory codes and administrative regulations, federal
      and state constitutions, court rules, Federal Register rules and
      Presidential documents, federal and state agency guidance, agency
      adjudications, state Attorney General opinions, the Sentencing Guidelines
      and US tax treaties. Scope a search with the `corpusType` filter, and call
      `/us/statutes/coverage` for the live jurisdiction-by-corpusType list.


      - **Search**: Search across all USC, CFR, state, and regulatory sections

      - **Section**: Get metadata, citation, hierarchy, and source links for a
      specific section

      - **Body**: Get the full text of a section

      - **Enactments**: Which state session laws a publisher's own tables list
      against a section (supported jurisdictions only, never a complete history)
  - name: US Session Laws
    description: >-
      State session laws: the acts of each legislature as they were enacted,
      chapter by chapter, before they are folded into a code. A session law is
      what the governor signs. It carries the act's own text, including the
      language it strikes and inserts, its approval and effective dates, and,
      where the publisher prints one, the code sections it changes. That makes
      it the source for "which act changed this section, and when did it take
      effect".


      Every act has a permanent `sessionLawId` (for example
      `SSL_MN_2025R_G_Y2025_C1`, Minnesota Laws 2025, regular session, chapter
      1) whether or not we hold its text, and a citation or bill number such as
      `S.F.No. 1552` is accepted where an id goes. v1 serves STATE acts only.
      Federal session laws (the Statutes at Large, `SAL_` ids) are served by
      `/us/statutes/section`, and `/us/statutes/resolve` points a session-law
      citation here.


      **Start here**: check `/us/statutes/coverage` (free) for what we hold per
      state: each jurisdiction's `sessionLaws` block lists its sessions, which
      are complete or only partly collected, and the `series` and
      `instrumentTypes` that exist. Then **List** a session or a date range to
      get ids, **Get** one act for its record, then **Body** for its text. A law
      missing from a partly collected session is a free 404
      (`session_not_fully_collected`), not proof it does not exist.


      - **List**: everything enacted in a state's session, approved in a window,
      or taking effect on a date

      - **Get**: one act by id or by citation; dates (`effectiveDates` is always
      a list), sources and the code sections it affects

      - **Body**: the act's text as printed, paged by cursor, with amendatory
      markup preserved where the publisher printed it

      - **Batch**: up to 50 ids or citations in one call, the same record as
      Get, billed per law served, with every miss listed and its reason

      - **Changes**: a sync feed of the registry over an integer cursor
      (`sinceId`): what began to be served, was corrected, withdrawn or merged


      The reverse link, from a code section to the acts a publisher's own tables
      list against it, is `GET /us/statutes/section/{actId}/enactments`.
  - name: Board Watches
    description: >-
      Law-change alerts. Subscribe to a **board** (a tracked corpus source,
      identified by `corpusType` plus an optional `state`) and get a webhook or
      email whenever it refreshes with real changes, naming the exact sections
      that changed. Fetch old-vs-new text for any amended section via the change
      diff.


      Boards refresh on their own existing cadence; watching one does not change
      how often it refreshes. Every endpoint here is **free**: authenticated by
      API key and rate-limited, but not credit-metered.


      See the [Law Change Alerts
      guide](https://www.vaquill.ai/docs/api-guide/alerts) for the full
      walkthrough.
  - name: Pricing
    description: >-
      Credit pricing and conversion rates. No authentication required. 1 credit
      = $0.01 USD.
  - name: Credits
    description: >-
      Your own credit balance: what is spendable right now, where it came from,
      and what is about to expire.


      Free and never charged, so it is safe to poll for low-balance alerting or
      to pre-flight a batch job.
externalDocs:
  description: Full API Reference
  url: https://www.vaquill.ai/docs/api-reference/
paths:
  /api/v1/watches/{watch_id}/deliveries:
    get:
      tags:
        - Board Watches
      summary: List delivery history for a watch
      description: >-
        The most recent webhook delivery attempts for a watch you own, newest
        first. Only webhook/both channel watches have delivery history; an
        email-only watch always returns an empty list here (email sends are not
        logged per-attempt). Test deliveries (`POST /watches/{id}/test`) never
        appear -- they are deliberately not persisted.


        `consecutiveFailures` counts how many of the most recent attempts failed
        in a row, and `deliveryHealth` is `failing` once that reaches 3. Read
        them before reading the list: a watch can keep firing on schedule and
        delivering nothing, and the streak is the only field that distinguishes
        that from a bad day. `consecutiveFailuresTruncated` is true when the
        streak fills the whole page, meaning the real run is at least this long.


        **Nothing notifies you when a webhook starts failing. Poll this route.**
        We alert ourselves after 3 consecutive failures, but we send you no
        email and no callback, and a failing receiver is in your infrastructure
        rather than ours. A watch stays active and keeps being dispatched while
        every delivery fails, so silence from your endpoint is not evidence that
        the law did not change. Check `deliveryHealth` on a schedule of your
        own.


        `error` on each attempt says WHY it failed, including the redirect
        target when an endpoint answered 3xx. Deliveries do not follow
        redirects: a 3xx is a failed delivery, not a delivered one, so register
        the endpoint's final URL.


        **Free.**
      operationId: list_watch_deliveries_api_v1_watches__watch_id__deliveries_get
      parameters:
        - name: watch_id
          in: path
          required: true
          schema:
            type: string
            title: Watch Id
        - name: limit
          in: query
          required: false
          schema:
            type: integer
            maximum: 200
            minimum: 1
            description: Max deliveries to return.
            default: 50
            title: Limit
          description: Max deliveries to return.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The watch's delivery history, newest first.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema: {}
              example:
                data:
                  deliveries:
                    - id: 42
                      watchId: 9f2b1e0a-1234-4a11-8b1c-abcdef123456
                      refreshLogId: 1587
                      attemptedAt: '2026-08-05T07:00:03Z'
                      statusCode: 200
                      success: true
                      attemptNumber: 1
                  consecutiveFailures: 0
                  consecutiveFailuresTruncated: false
                  deliveryHealth: ok
                meta:
                  processingTimeMs: 15
                  creditsConsumed: 0
        '401':
          description: Invalid or missing API key.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiDetailError'
        '403':
          description: API key lacks `research:read` scope.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiDetailError'
        '404':
          description: Watch not found.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiDetailError'
        '422':
          description: Validation Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/HTTPValidationError'
        '429':
          description: Rate limit exceeded.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiDetailError'
components:
  schemas:
    ApiDetailError:
      properties:
        detail:
          type: string
          title: Detail
          description: >-
            Human-readable reason, safe to surface to an end user. Branch on the
            HTTP status rather than on this string: the wording is not part of
            the contract and may be reworded, but 401 (bad key), 402 (out of
            credits), 403 (missing scope), 404 (no such resource) and 429 (rate
            limited) are stable.
          examples:
            - Insufficient API credits.
        errors:
          anyOf:
            - items:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiFieldError'
              type: array
            - type: 'null'
          title: Errors
          description: 'Present on 422 only: every field that failed validation.'
      type: object
      required:
        - detail
      title: ApiDetailError
      description: >-
        Error envelope the API actually returns.


        Every error (400/401/402/403/404/405/422/429/5xx) carries a `detail`

        string, e.g. `{"detail": "Insufficient API credits."}`, on every mount
        of

        the API. A 422 adds `errors`, one entry per rejected field. Some 404s
        add

        endpoint-specific diagnosis beside `detail` (the statutes section routes

        add `actId`, `reason` and `didYouMean`); treat unknown keys as optional.
    HTTPValidationError:
      properties:
        detail:
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ValidationError'
          type: array
          title: Detail
      type: object
      title: HTTPValidationError
    ApiFieldError:
      properties:
        loc:
          items:
            anyOf:
              - type: string
              - type: integer
          type: array
          title: Loc
          description: >-
            Where the bad value is: `body`, `query` or `path`, then the
            parameter name exactly as you send it (camelCase), then list
            indexes. A bare `["body"]` means the body as a whole was not a JSON
            object.
          examples:
            - - body
              - corpusType
        msg:
          type: string
          title: Msg
          description: What is wrong with the value, in plain English.
          examples:
            - Input should be 'USC', 'CFR' or 'STATE'
        type:
          type: string
          title: Type
          description: >-
            Machine-readable error kind, e.g. `missing`, `literal_error`,
            `json_invalid`.
          examples:
            - literal_error
      type: object
      required:
        - loc
        - msg
        - type
      title: ApiFieldError
      description: One rejected field in a 422 response.
    ValidationError:
      properties:
        loc:
          items:
            anyOf:
              - type: string
              - type: integer
          type: array
          title: Location
        msg:
          type: string
          title: Message
        type:
          type: string
          title: Error Type
        input:
          title: Input
        ctx:
          type: object
          title: Context
      type: object
      required:
        - loc
        - msg
        - type
      title: ValidationError
  securitySchemes:
    ApiKeyAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: vq_key_*
      description: >-
        API key issued from the developer dashboard. Pass as `Authorization:
        Bearer vq_key_...` (preferred).
    ApiKeyHeader:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: X-API-Key
      description: >-
        The same API key as a bare header value: `X-API-Key: vq_key_...`.
        Equivalent to the Bearer form.
    ApiKeyQuery:
      type: apiKey
      in: query
      name: api_key
      description: >-
        The same API key as a query parameter: `?api_key=vq_key_...`. Use only
        where you cannot set a header. A URL can end up in proxy and server
        logs, browser history and shared links, so prefer either header form,
        and rotate a key that has leaked.

````

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