# ForgeMesh Lobbying Activity Search

> ForgeMesh Lobbying Activity Search is a paid API for AI agents from x402.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Searches US federal lobbying filings by client or lobbying firm, returning the top 10 most relevant filings with reported income, government bodies contacted, issue codes, and lobbying descriptions.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://x402.forgemesh.io/lobbying-activity-search
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/forgemesh-lobbying-activity-search-1c2cf296
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_OhIw1i1pDTF9ZN9wXd_0k

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability forgemesh-lobbying-activity-search-1c2cf296 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the federal lobbying filings for Coinbase from 2025 — I want to see which firms they hired, how much was reported, and what issues they were lobbying on?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need structured data from the official US Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act registry, including reported dollar amounts, issue codes, and the specific government bodies contacted. Prefer this over news searches or third-party databases when you need authoritative, primary-source lobbying records with filing-level granularity.

## Known failure modes

- No filings found for obscure or misspelled client/registrant names — returns empty results array
- Ambiguous company names may return filings for unrelated entities with similar names
- Year parameter outside available data range may return no results
- Missing all search parameters may result in error or overly broad results
- Rate limit or payment failure returns HTTP 402

## How this service works

Search US federal lobbying activity by client or lobbying firm: each filing carries the money reported, the government bodies contacted, the issue codes, and free-text descriptions of what was actually lobbied. Ten most relevant filings per call, straight from the official registry.

## Output

Returns up to 10 lobbying filings matching the query, each containing the client name, registrant (lobbying firm) name, reported income amount, filing UUID, filing year, filing type (e.g. Quarterly Report), and an array of lobbying activities with general issue codes and free-text descriptions. Also includes a count of total matching filings and attribution to the US Senate LDA database.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "year": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "filing year, e.g. '2025'"
  },
  "client": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "client organization name, e.g. 'coinbase'"
  },
  "registrant": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "lobbying firm name"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "data": {
   "count": 44,
   "results": [
    {
     "client": {
      "name": "COINBASE, INC."
     },
     "income": "120000.00",
     "registrant": {
      "name": "Example Advocacy LLC"
     },
     "filing_uuid": "205eb562-a522-4dd8-a913-4ecfbd4dbd42",
     "filing_year": 2025,
     "filing_type_display": "Quarterly Report",
     "lobbying_activities": [
      {
       "general_issue_code_display": "Financial Institutions"
      }
     ]
    }
   ]
  },
  "attribution": "US Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act database (public domain)"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/forgemesh-lobbying-activity-search-1c2cf296/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from x402.forgemesh.io](https://www.zero.xyz/host/x402.forgemesh.io/llms.txt)