# 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 reclassifications, tax-foreclosure auction docs) for Buffalo or Chicago as clean structured items with source links

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://well-015-municipal-notices.mmelnyk2000.workers.dev/mcp?utm_source=zero.xyz#municipal-notices#municipal-notices
- 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-5f6e6bbd
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_2IBKIW57VOHsvEN0Fswn7

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-5f6e6bbd -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the latest Buffalo Planning Board and ZBA agendas from the municipal notices API, filtering for anything about zoning since 2024-01-01 and give me up to 10 results with source links?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need quick structured access to public municipal notices specifically for Buffalo (Planning Board, ZBA agendas, Erie County tax-foreclosure auctions) or Chicago (City Council zoning reclassifications) without scraping government websites yourself; ideal for agents monitoring local government activity, real estate research, or civic data pipelines requiring clean items with source links at minimal cost

## Known failure modes

- Invalid area value (not 'buffalo' or 'chicago') returns an error
- Malformed since date format causes a parsing error
- Payment of $0.005 USDC not included or rejected blocks access
- No matching notices found for the given filters returns an empty list
- Cached records may lag behind real-time government publication schedules

## 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.

## Output

A list of clean, structured municipal notice items each containing the notice title, date, kind/category, a plain-text summary, and a source link to the original public document; scoped to the requested area (buffalo or chicago) and filtered by any provided date, keyword, or kind parameters

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/municipal-notices-api-buffalo-chicago-5f6e6bbd/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from well-015-municipal-notices.mmelnyk2000.workers.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/well-015-municipal-notices.mmelnyk2000.workers.dev/llms.txt)