# Municipal Notices API (Buffalo & Chicago)

> Municipal Notices API (Buffalo & Chicago) is a paid API for AI agents from well-015-municipal-notices.mmelnyk2000.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-20).

Returns recent public municipal notices — planning board agendas, zoning decisions, and tax-foreclosure documents — for Buffalo (Erie County) or Chicago, with optional date, keyword, and type filters.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://well-015-municipal-notices.mmelnyk2000.workers.dev/api/municipal-notices?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-20
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/municipal-notices-api-buffalo-chicago-409cf0e2
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_L__YzeBgUDOP731W7NxWq

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-409cf0e2 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest Buffalo Planning Board and ZBA agendas from the municipal notices service — anything since January 1, 2025 — and filter for notices mentioning 'Elmwood'.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when an agent needs structured, ready-to-consume public municipal notice data for Buffalo (Erie County) or Chicago without having to scrape government websites. It is ideal for real estate due diligence, zoning research, tax-foreclosure monitoring, or civic tracking workflows where clean records with source links are more valuable than raw HTML. Prefer this over web scraping when speed, clean formatting, and low cost matter.

## Known failure modes

- Missing required 'area' field returns a validation error
- Invalid area value (not 'buffalo' or 'chicago') returns an error
- Invalid date format for 'since' may return an error or be ignored
- No matching notices for the given filters returns an empty list
- Cached records may be slightly stale; freshness is not guaranteed
- Payment of $0.005 USDC required — missing or failed payment returns 402

## 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, nothing stored. Provided as is, with no warranty or guarantee of accuracy or fitness. Nothing is stored.

## Output

A list of clean municipal notice items, each including a title, notice date, type/kind, a brief body or description, and a source link pointing to the original public record. Typically returns up to 25 items (configurable) filtered by area, date, keyword, and/or notice kind.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "area"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "area": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "buffalo (Erie County NY) or chicago (Cook County IL)."
  },
  "kinds": {
   "type": "array",
   "description": "Optional subset: rezoning, planning_board_agenda, zoning_board_agenda, tax_foreclosure_notice."
  },
  "limit": {
   "type": "number",
   "description": "Max items, 1-50 (default 25)."
  },
  "since": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Optional YYYY-MM-DD; only items on/after this date."
  },
  "keyword": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Optional case-insensitive filter on title/body."
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "additionalProperties": true
}
```

## More

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