Bundestag (DE)

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German Bundestag DIP API — plenary minutes, bills, parliamentary questions, members. Free with API key.

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🔑Authentication

Platform key handled by Pipeworx. Or BYO: ?_apiKey=<key>. The pack also falls back to the public demo key documented on dip.bundestag.de.

Config with credentials
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx-bundestag-de": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote@latest",
        "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/bundestag-de/mcp?_apiKey=your_key"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Get an API key →

Tools

search_activities

Bundestag/Bundesrat parliamentary activities filtered by GND subject descriptor (e.g. "Klimaschutz", "Mindestlohn") + optional ministry/date. Topic matching uses DIP subject descriptors (controlled Ge

Parameters
NameTypeDescription
queryoptstring—
ressortoptstring—
descriptoroptstring—
date_fromoptstring—
date_tooptstring—
formatoptstring—
cursoroptstring—
numoptnumber—
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search_drucksachen

German Bundestag DIP (Dokumentations- und Informationssystem für Parlamentarische Vorgänge) — search Drucksachen, the printed papers of the Bundestag and Bundesrat: Gesetzentwürfe (bills), Anträge (mo

Parameters
NameTypeDescription
queryoptstring—
drucksachentypoptstring—
date_fromoptstring—
date_tooptstring—
cursoroptstring—
numoptnumber—
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get_drucksacherequired: id

Drucksache (printed document) detail by id.

Parameters
NameTypeDescription
idreqstring—
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search_plenarprotokolle

List Bundestag plenary protocols (transcripts) by date range. NOT keyword-searchable — protocol titles are only session numbers, so for a topic use search_drucksachen; open a specific protocol with ge

Parameters
NameTypeDescription
queryoptstring—
date_fromoptstring—
date_tooptstring—
cursoroptstring—
numoptnumber—
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get_plenarprotokollrequired: id

Fetch full detail for a single Bundestag plenary protocol (Plenarprotokoll) by its numeric id string — returns date, session number, and associated agenda items and speakers.

Parameters
NameTypeDescription
idreqstring—
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search_persons

List people referenced in DIP (members, ministers, witnesses), paginated by cursor. NOTE: DIP provides no name search — you cannot filter /person by name. To find a specific person, locate them via se

Parameters
NameTypeDescription
queryoptstring—
cursoroptstring—
numoptnumber—
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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/bundestag-de/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/bundestag-de/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_activities","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("search_activities", {});
ask_pipeworx
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("german bundestag dip api — plenary minutes, bills, parliamentary questions, members");