# German Political Party Large Donations (Bundestag)

> German Political Party Large Donations (Bundestag) is a paid API for AI agents from api.polls.karbach.digital, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-27).

Returns itemised large donations (Großspenden) to German political parties as published by the Bundestag, including donor, amount, dates, printed paper reference, and party totals.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.polls.karbach.digital/v1/parties/donations?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-27
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/german-political-party-large-donations-bundestag-4ce70764
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_LIjk-4_RzGFN5hSrpPjDh

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 german-political-party-large-donations-bundestag-4ce70764
```

Example prompt: Who donated large sums to the CDU in 2023? Show me the itemised Großspenden from the Bundestag records, up to 100 entries.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need authoritative, source-attributed data on large donations (Großspenden) to German political parties directly from Bundestag publications. Prefer this over general web searches when you need structured, filterable data with exact amounts, donor names, and official references. Ideal for journalism, political research, transparency analysis, or any agent task requiring verified German party finance data from 2009 onward.

## Known failure modes

- 503 Service Unavailable: returned when cached data is older than 50 hours, meaning no fresh data is available — agent should retry later
- 400 Bad Request: invalid query parameters (e.g. year below 2009, invalid date format)
- No results: valid query but no donations match the filter criteria (e.g. party with no recorded large donations in that period)
- Rate limiting or payment failure: x402 payment not processed correctly

## How this service works

Large donations to German parties as published by the Bundestag (above 35,000 euros, until March 2024 above 50,000 euros, itemised since 2009): donor, amount, dates, printed paper, totals per party. Use when asked who donates large sums to a German party, how much a party received in large donations, or about a specific donation (Großspende). Source-attributed. Refused (503, not charged) if data is older than 50 hours.

## Output

A structured list of individual large donations (Großspenden) including donor identity, amount in euros, donation date, the receiving party, and the Bundestag printed paper (Drucksache) reference. Also includes aggregated totals per party. Data is source-attributed and guaranteed to be no older than 50 hours (otherwise a 503 is returned).

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "from": {
       "type": "string",
       "format": "date"
      },
      "year": {
       "type": "integer",
       "minimum": 2009
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "integer",
       "default": 50,
       "maximum": 1000,
       "minimum": 1
      },
      "party": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "e.g. CDU, SPD, Grüne, AfD"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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