# polls.karbach.digital — Daily German Political Briefing

> polls.karbach.digital — Daily German Political Briefing is a paid API for AI agents from api.polls.karbach.digital, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-28).

Returns a source-attributed daily political briefing for Germany for a specified past date (from 2026-04-19 onward), updated every six hours.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.polls.karbach.digital/v1/briefing/:date?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.02/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-daily-german-political-briefing-d61efdc4
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_EyvJFaLDrUOGV3dLyUN10

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-daily-german-political-briefing-d61efdc4
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the German political briefing for May 3, 2026 — I need a source-attributed summary of what the political situation was that day?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a source-attributed, structured political briefing specifically for Germany on a particular past date (from 2026-04-19). Prefer this over general news search APIs when you need structured, curated German political data with source attribution rather than raw web results. It is also preferable when you need a consistent, reproducible snapshot of the German political situation on a given day rather than ad hoc search results.

## Known failure modes

- Date before 2026-04-19 returns an error or empty result — data only available from that date onward
- Invalid date format (not YYYY-MM-DD) returns a 400 or validation error
- Future dates are not supported — only past dates with available data
- Service may return stale data if the six-hour update cycle has not yet completed for a recent date
- Network or payment (x402) failure may prevent access to the briefing

## How this service works

Daily political briefing for a past date (YYYY-MM-DD, from 2026-04-19). Use for the political situation on a past date. Source-attributed, German data, updated every six hours.

## Output

A structured, source-attributed daily political briefing covering the German political situation on the requested date, including key political events, party activity, and relevant context. Data is sourced from German political data providers and updated every six hours.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
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 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
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   "required": [
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    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "pathParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "date"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "date": {
       "type": "string",
       "format": "date",
       "description": "YYYY-MM-DD, from 2026-04-19"
      }
     }
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {}
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/polls-karbach-digital-daily-german-political-briefing-d61efdc4/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.polls.karbach.digital](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.polls.karbach.digital/llms.txt)