# polls.karbach.digital – Bundestag Committees

> polls.karbach.digital – Bundestag Committees is a paid API for AI agents from api.polls.karbach.digital, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-28).

Returns the current list of all Bundestag parliamentary committees, including committee IDs, names, URLs, chairs, members, and the current legislative period.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.polls.karbach.digital/v1/bundestag/committees?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-28
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/polls-karbach-digital-bundestag-committees-4f20c40c
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Gv-QEUMXAMOmtdXyPIEyR

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 polls-karbach-digital-bundestag-committees-4f20c40c
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the full list of current Bundestag committees for me — I want to see all committee names, their chairs, and the legislative period they belong to?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need structured, machine-readable data about the current composition of Bundestag committees — including chairs and official links — updated every 6 hours from official parliamentary sources. Prefer this over scraping bundestag.de directly or using general web search when you need reliable, attributed, consistently formatted committee data for the current legislative period.

## Known failure modes

- API unavailable or rate-limited (HTTP 402/429/503)
- Stale data if the 6-hour update cycle has not yet run after a political change
- Committee membership details may be partially empty objects if not yet populated
- Response may omit newly formed committees shortly after a new legislative period begins

## How this service works

All Bundestag committees with official name, chair and members (role, group). Use when asked who sits on or chairs a Bundestag committee. Source-attributed, German data, updated every six hours.

## Output

A JSON object containing the total count of Bundestag committees, an array of committee objects (each with ID, official URL, German name, chair names, and members), the current legislative period number, data source attribution, a data-freshness timestamp, and a disclaimer that the data is informational only.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "data": {
   "count": 24,
   "committees": [
    {
     "id": "a11_arbeit_soziales",
     "url": "https://www.bundestag.de/ausschuesse/a11_arbeit_soziales",
     "name": "Ausschuss für Arbeit und Soziales",
     "chair": [
      "Bernd Rützel"
     ],
     "members": [
      {},
      {}
     ]
    },
    {
     "id": "a13_Bildung-Familie-Senioren-Frauen-und-Jugend",
     "url": "https://www.bundestag.de/ausschuesse/a13_Bildung-Familie-Senioren-Frauen-und-Jugend",
     "name": "Ausschuss für Bildung, Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend",
     "chair": [
      "Saskia Esken"
     ],
     "members": [
      {},
      {}
     ]
    }
   ],
   "legislative_period": 21
  },
  "docs": "https://api.polls.karbach.digital/v1/",
  "model": null,
  "notice": "Scenario analysis based on published opinion polls. Not a prediction and not a voting recommendation. Coalitions are arithmetic majorities only, not statemen...",
  "source": {
   "polls": "dawum.de",
   "processing": "polls.karbach.digital (Max Karbach)",
   "polls_license": "ODbL 1.0",
   "polls_license_url": "https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/",
   "parliament_documents": "Deutscher Bundestag (DIP, Plenarprotokolle, Ausschussseiten)",
   "parliament_documents_note": "Official parliamentary documents; speeches are public official works."
  },
  "project": "Ein Projekt von Karbach.Digital (https://karbach.digital)",
  "updated_at": "2026-10-18T15:33:43.084066",
  "uncertainty": null
 }
}
```

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