Locus Representatives

{
  "caveats": [
    "Public officials in their official capacity only - never political advice, ranking, endorsement, or eligibility determination.",
    "Districts come from Census TIGERweb (national, keyless, boundary vintage noted per district row); officeholders are looked up by the district numbers of the plan that elected the sitting members, so a filter miss degrades to a visible no-match rather than a wrong official."
  ],
  "districts": [
    {
      "districts": [
        {
          "BASENAME": "2",
          "GEOID": "3702",
          "NAME": "Congressional District 2"
        }
      ],
      "role": "us_congressional_district",
      "sourceLayer": "120th Congressional Districts"
    },
    {
      "districts": [
        {
          "BASENAME": "14",
          "GEOID": "37014",
          "NAME": "State Senate District 14"
        }
      ],
      "role": "state_legislative_upper",
      "sourceLayer": "2026 State Legislative Districts - Upper"
    }
  ],
  "note": "Awareness/diagnostic only. Full briefs are x402-paid. Agents can discover live free tools at https://api.locus.report/tools/list and paid tools, prices, and manifests at https://api.locus.report/.well-known/ai-tool/index.json.",
  "ok": true,
  "point": {
    "latitude": 35.780418,
    "longitude": -78.639102
  },
  "provenance": {
    "districts": {
      "coverage": "national",
      "serviceUrl": "https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/arcgis/rest/services/TIGERweb/Legislative/MapServer",
      "source": "U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb (current legislative districts)"
    },
    "representatives": {
      "fetchedAt": "2026-09-22T00:00:00.000Z",
      "serviceUrl": "https://v3.openstates.org/people",
      "source": "Open States"
    }
  },
  "representatives": {
    "caveats": [
      "Public officials in their official capacity only - never political advice, ranking, endorsement, or eligibility determination. Sample lists three of the lane's officials (state senator, state house member, US House member); the live lane also returns US senators and statewide executives."
    ],
    "provenance": {
      "fetchedAt": "2026-09-22T00:00:00.000Z",
      "serviceUrl": "https://v3.openstates.org/people",
      "source": "Open States"
    },
    "representatives": [
      {
        "chamber": "upper",
        "citation": {
          "fetchedAt": "2026-09-22T00:00:00.000Z",
          "recordId": "ocd-person/example-blue",
          "sourceName": "Open States",
          "sourceUrl": "https://openstates.org/person/dan-blue/"
        },
        "district": "14",
        "jurisdictionName": "North Carolina",
        "name": "Dan Blue",
        "ocdPersonId": "ocd-person/example-blue",
        "openstatesUrl": "https://openstates.org/person/dan-blue/",
        "party": "Democratic",
        "roleTitle": "Senator"
      },
      {
        "chamber": "lower",
        "citation": {
          "fetchedAt": "2026-09-22T00:00:00.000Z",
          "recordId": "ocd-person/example-jones",
          "sourceName": "Open States",
          "sourceUrl": "https://openstates.org/person/abe-jones/"
        },
        "district": "38",
        "jurisdictionName": "North Carolina",
        "name": "Abe Jones",
        "ocdPersonId": "ocd-person/example-jones",
        "openstatesUrl": "https://openstates.org/person/abe-jones/",
        "party": "Democratic",
        "roleTitle": "Representative"
      }
    ],
    "status": "ok"
  },
  "verifyNext": [
    {
      "step": "Confirm your state legislators by district and county at the official NC General Assembly representation directory.",
      "url": "https://www.ncleg.gov/Members/CountyRepresentation"
    }
  ]
}

# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i -X POST 'https://api.locus.report/api/locus-representatives' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"address":"1 E Edenton St, Raleigh, NC 27601"}'

# 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 - -X POST 'https://api.locus.report/api/locus-representatives' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"address":"1 E Edenton St, Raleigh, NC 27601"}' \
  | grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decode

// 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 $0.05 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.05" });
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 $0.05 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.locus.report%2Fapi%2Flocus-representatives&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://api.locus.report/api/locus-representatives", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "address": "1 E Edenton St, Raleigh, NC 27601"
  }),
});
console.log(res.status, await res.text());

# 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 $0.05 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.05"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))

with x402_requests(client) as session:
    res = session.post(
        "https://api.locus.report/api/locus-representatives",
        json={
            "address": "1 E Edenton St, Raleigh, NC 27601",
        },
    )
    print(res.status_code, res.text)