Command-line tool and TypeScript library

`lobbyregister`

Search Germany’s federal register of interest representatives (lobbyists) from your terminal. lobbyregister is a command-line tool for the open Lobbyregister search API — find registered lobbyists and organisations by keyword, count their presence, and pipe the results straight into jq.

Version 0.0.8 npm GitHub API reference

Install

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

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

Access

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

Quick start

lobbyregister search Energie

Commands

search

Search the lobby register
count

Count entries matching a query

All commands, arguments and options →

Claude Code skills

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

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

/lobbyregister:lobbyregister-legislative-engagement
/lobbyregister:lobbyregister-money-ranking
/lobbyregister:lobbyregister-new-entrants
/lobbyregister:lobbyregister-revolving-door
/lobbyregister:lobbyregister-sector-brief

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

TypeScript library

@maschinenlesbar.org/lobbyregister-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.