# Municipal Notices API – Buffalo & Chicago

> Municipal Notices API – Buffalo & Chicago is a paid API for AI agents from well-015-municipal-notices.rainmaker-wells.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-22).

Returns recent public municipal notices (planning board agendas, zoning reclassifications, tax-foreclosure auction docs) for Buffalo or Chicago as clean structured items with source links

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://well-015-municipal-notices.rainmaker-wells.workers.dev/mcp?utm_source=zero.xyz#municipal-notices#municipal-notices
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-22
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/municipal-notices-api-buffalo-chicago-2acab25a
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_KUz5oa305Pp0oOU3DqtfZ

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 municipal-notices-api-buffalo-chicago-2acab25a -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest Buffalo Planning Board and ZBA municipal notices from the past 30 days — anything related to zoning variances — and give me up to 10 results with source links.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need structured, ready-to-consume municipal public notices specifically for Buffalo (Planning Board, ZBA, Erie County tax foreclosure) or Chicago (City Council zoning reclassifications). It is ideal for agents monitoring local government activity, real estate researchers tracking zoning changes or foreclosure auctions, and civic tech workflows that need clean notice data with source links without having to scrape government websites directly.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unsupported area value returns an error (only 'buffalo' and 'chicago' are supported)
- Malformed since date (wrong format) may return an error or be ignored
- No results found for the given keyword/date combination returns an empty list
- Payment failure via x402 protocol prevents access
- Cached records may be slightly delayed relative to real-time postings

## How this service works

Recent public municipal notices as clean items with source links ($0.005 USDC). area: buffalo (Buffalo Planning Board/ZBA agendas + Erie County tax-foreclosure auction docs) or chicago (City Council zoning reclassifications). Optional since (YYYY-MM-DD), keyword, kinds, limit. Cached public records; facts only, no advice; as is, no guarantee, inputs not retained; public source pages may be briefly cached.

## Output

A list of structured municipal notice items, each containing a notice title, date, kind/type, brief description, and a source link to the original public document. Results are drawn from cached public records for the specified area (buffalo or chicago) and can be filtered by date, keyword, and notice kind.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/municipal-notices-api-buffalo-chicago-2acab25a/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from well-015-municipal-notices.rainmaker-wells.workers.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/well-015-municipal-notices.rainmaker-wells.workers.dev/llms.txt)