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Institutes

by polls.karbach.digital in Other

x402 APIPassing, checked 41 min ago

Polling institutes: accuracy of final polls in past elections and average bias per party. Use when asked which German polling institute is most accurate or biased. Source-attributed, German data, updated every six hours.

GET
https://api.polls.karbach.digital/v1/institutes
Price
$0.02
per call in USDC
Uptime
100%
last 30 days
Response time
238 ms
272 ms slowest 5%
Last check
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How to call it

GET https://api.polls.karbach.digital/v1/institutes

Each call costs $0.02 in USDC on Base, paid with the request over x402.

Run a free test callOne unpaid request, the way an agent sends it. You see the payment challenge it gets back. Nothing is charged.

Example request

Built from the input schema. Replace the values with your own.

GET https://api.polls.karbach.digital/v1/institutes

Example response

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Example response, 58 lines
{
  "data": {
    "accuracy_final_polls": [
      {
        "best_mae": 0.42,
        "institute": "Institut Wahlkreisprognose",
        "mean_mae": 1.06,
        "n_endpolls": 19,
        "sd_mae": 0.38,
        "worst_mae": 2.13
      },
      {
        "best_mae": 0.43,
        "institute": "Forschungsgruppe Wahlen",
        "mean_mae": 1.2,
        "n_endpolls": 34,
        "sd_mae": 0.58,
        "worst_mae": 2.92
      }
    ],
    "elections_in_backtest": 34,
    "explanation": "accuracy_final_polls: mean absolute error of each institute's last poll before past elections. house_effects_points: average deviation per party versus the o...",
    "house_effects_points": {
      "Forschungsgruppe Wahlen": {
        "AfD": -0.65,
        "CDU": -2.15,
        "Grüne": -1.3,
        "Linke": 2.42,
        "SPD": 1.9
      },
      "INSA": {
        "AfD": 0.8,
        "CDU": -2.33,
        "Grüne": -4.43,
        "Linke": 3.53,
        "SPD": 3.1
      },
      "Infratest dimap": {}
    },
    "model_weights": {
      "Forschungsgruppe Wahlen": 1.07,
      "INSA": 0.7,
      "Infratest dimap": 1.24
    }
  },
  "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...",
  "project": "Ein Projekt von Karbach.Digital (https://karbach.digital)",
  "source": {
    "polls": "dawum.de",
    "polls_license": "ODbL 1.0",
    "polls_license_url": "https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/",
    "processing": "polls.karbach.digital (Max Karbach)"
  },
  "uncertainty": null,
  "updated_at": "2026-10-18 04:30:24"
}

Call it from code

The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.02.

curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://api.polls.karbach.digital/v1/institutes'

# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - 'https://api.polls.karbach.digital/v1/institutes' \
  | grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decode
JavaScript: pay and call
// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

// Pays at most $0.02 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.02" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.02 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.polls.karbach.digital%2Fv1%2Finstitutes
const res = await pay("https://api.polls.karbach.digital/v1/institutes");
console.log(res.status, await res.text());
Python: pay and call
# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client

# Pays at most $0.02 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.02"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))

with x402_requests(client) as session:
    res = session.get("https://api.polls.karbach.digital/v1/institutes")
    print(res.status_code, res.text)

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