# polls.karbach.digital – German Bundestag Members List

> polls.karbach.digital – German Bundestag Members List 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 a list of current German Bundestag members, filterable by party and/or federal state, as part of an independent German election simulation platform.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.polls.karbach.digital/v1/members?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-german-bundestag-members-list-964c8cff
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_CjaRFfTco1qo6uHBaOQb6

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-german-bundestag-members-list-964c8cff
```

Example prompt: Give me a list of all SPD members currently in the German Bundestag — I need their names, mandate type, and constituency numbers.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need structured, up-to-date data on current German Bundestag members with the ability to filter by party or state. Prefer this over generic web scraping or Wikipedia lookups when you need machine-readable, licensed, regularly-updated parliamentary membership data with individual profile links.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unrecognized party abbreviation returns empty results or error
- Invalid state code returns empty results
- API unavailable or rate-limited returns HTTP 402/4xx/5xx
- Payment not processed correctly results in 402 Payment Required

## How this service works

All members of the Bundestag with party, constituency and mandate type. Use to find members of the Bundestag by party or state. Source-attributed, German data, updated every six hours.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with a count and array of Bundestag member records, each including numeric ID, full name, URL-friendly slug, party abbreviation, mandate type (constituency or list), constituency number, and a detail URL for the individual member profile. Also includes data source attribution, license info, and last-updated timestamp.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "party": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "state": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "two-letter code, e.g. SL"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "data": {
   "count": 2,
   "members": [
    {
     "id": 138463,
     "name": "Esra Limbacher",
     "slug": "esra-limbacher",
     "party": "SPD",
     "detail": "https://api.polls.karbach.digital/v1/members/esra-limbacher",
     "mandate": "constituency",
     "constituency": 299
    },
    {
     "id": 146867,
     "name": "Josephine Ortleb",
     "slug": "josephine-ortleb",
     "party": "SPD",
     "detail": "https://api.polls.karbach.digital/v1/members/josephine-ortleb",
     "mandate": "constituency",
     "constituency": 296
    }
   ]
  },
  "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",
   "members_and_votes": "abgeordnetenwatch.de",
   "polls_license_url": "https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/",
   "parliament_documents": "Deutscher Bundestag (DIP, Plenarprotokolle)",
   "members_and_votes_license": "CC BY 4.0 (votes CC BY-SA 4.0)"
  },
  "project": "Ein Projekt von Karbach.Digital (https://karbach.digital)",
  "updated_at": "2026-10-13T04:03:13.458469",
  "uncertainty": null
 }
}
```

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