# polls.karbach.digital – German Election Simulation Daily Briefing

> polls.karbach.digital – German Election Simulation Daily 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 daily AI-assisted briefing text summarizing the current state of German election simulations across 18 elections, based on a Monte Carlo model updated every 6 hours

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.polls.karbach.digital/v1/briefing/today?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-german-election-simulation-daily-briefing-695c3bfd
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_8WiJh6T0lItRsvIOw3ywN

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-election-simulation-daily-briefing-695c3bfd
```

Example prompt: What's today's German election briefing — who's leading in the federal trend and what does the Karbach Monte Carlo simulation say about upcoming state elections?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a ready-to-read, human-friendly German election situation report without having to interpret raw polling numbers yourself. It is ideal for daily briefings, newsletters, political monitoring dashboards, or conversational agents that need to answer questions about German federal and state election outlooks. Prefer it over raw polling data endpoints when narrative summarization is needed. Not suitable for historical trend analysis or granular per-party per-poll data.

## Known failure modes

- No input parameters required so malformed requests are unlikely; service may return stale data if the 6-hour update cycle has not yet run
- API may return null for 'uncertainty' and 'model' fields as these appear to be unpopulated in current responses
- Response 'notice' field may be truncated in the example but should be complete in live responses
- Network or payment (x402) errors if the $0.02 USDC micropayment is not properly handled

## How this service works

Today's political situation in Germany in a few paragraphs (German), based on the model. Use for a short summary of German politics today. Source-attributed, German data, updated every six hours.

## Output

A JSON object containing: a plain-language headline and multi-sentence briefing text describing current party standings in the federal trend and upcoming election simulations; timestamp of last update; data source credits (dawum.de, ODbL 1.0); a notice clarifying this is scenario analysis, not a prediction or voting recommendation; and metadata about the project and AI-assisted writing process.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

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

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "data": {
   "date": "2026-10-18",
   "text": "Im Bundestrend führt AfD mit 28.5% vor CDU/CSU (18.8%) — ein Vorsprung von 9.7 Prozentpunkten. Für die anstehenden Wahlen Landtagswahl Saarland, Landtagswahl...",
   "headline": "AfD baut Vorsprung im Bundestrend aus",
   "written_with": "AI-assisted, generated from the model outputs and public news, not edited by hand"
  },
  "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/"
  },
  "project": "Ein Projekt von Karbach.Digital (https://karbach.digital)",
  "updated_at": "2026-10-18 00:00:09",
  "uncertainty": null
 }
}
```

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