Command-line tool and TypeScript library

`bundesrat`

Follow Germany’s Bundesrat — the chamber of the sixteen Länder — from your terminal. bundesrat is a command-line tool over the Bundesrat’s public data feeds (the data behind the official Bundesrat app): the current plenary sitting’s agenda and its Drucksachen, the members, and committee dates — as clean JSON you can pipe straight into jq.

Version 0.0.7 npm GitHub API reference

Install

Needs Node.js 20 or newer. Installs the bundesrat command:

npm i -g @maschinenlesbar.org/bundesrat-cli

Access

No account, no API key, no configuration — install and query.

Quick start

# The current plenary sitting: title + agenda items with their Drucksachen
bundesrat session | jq '{title, tops: [.tops[] | {toptitle, topdrucksache, topheader}]}'

# Every member from Bavaria
bundesrat members --state Bayern | jq -r '.[] | "\(.firstname) \(.name) — \(.party)"'

# All Green members across the Länder
bundesrat members --party grüne | jq length

# Committee appointments with their dates
bundesrat appointments | jq -r '.[] | "\(.startdate // "")\t\(.title)"'

Commands

session

Current plenary sitting: agenda items (TOPs) with their Drucksachen
appointments

Committee appointments and dates (Termine)
members

Members of the Bundesrat (Länder ministers and plenipotentiaries)

All commands, arguments and options →

Claude Code skills

The bundesrat plugin teaches Claude to use bundesrat. Install it from the maschinenlesbar.org marketplace:

/plugin marketplace add maschinenlesbar-org/plugins
/plugin install bundesrat@maschinenlesbar

/bundesrat:bundesrat-agenda
/bundesrat:bundesrat-members

What the skills answer, with real examples → Skill descriptions and requirements →

TypeScript library

@maschinenlesbar.org/bundesrat-cli is also a typed API client you can import in your own code, with no runtime HTTP dependencies.

API reference → Library usage and architecture →

The tool, not the data

The data comes from the provider behind the API, under its own terms — see DATA_LICENSE.md. The code is dual-licensed AGPL-3.0-or-later or commercial — see LICENSING.md.