gemeindebund.at APIgemeindebund.at ↗
Access Austrian municipality data, mayor details, news, events, regional associations, and staff from the Gemeindebund.at platform via a structured REST API.
No input parameters required.
curl -X GET 'https://api.parse.bot/scraper/b954a194-173e-4f88-8899-702308ca917f/get_communities' \ -H 'X-API-Key: $PARSE_API_KEY'
Returns all Austrian communities with their names, types, mayor details (name, salutation, role), state, district, population, and community code. Data sourced from the official interactive Bürgermeisterkarte.
No input parameters required.
{
"type": "object",
"fields": {
"total": "integer total number of communities",
"communities": "array of community objects with keys: name, type, mayor (object with salutation, role, first_name, last_name, full_name), state, district, population, code"
},
"sample": {
"data": {
"total": 2092,
"communities": [
{
"code": 10101,
"name": "Eisenstadt",
"type": "Stadtgemeinde",
"mayor": {
"role": "Bürgermeister",
"full_name": "Thomas STEINER",
"last_name": "STEINER",
"first_name": "Thomas",
"salutation": "Herrn"
},
"state": "Burgenland",
"district": "Eisenstadt(Stadt)",
"population": "16 116"
}
]
},
"status": "success"
}
}About the gemeindebund.at API
The Gemeindebund.at API provides access to 7 endpoints covering Austrian municipal data drawn from the official Austrian Association of Municipalities website. The get_communities endpoint alone returns structured records for every Austrian community, including mayor name, salutation, role, state, district, population, and community code. Other endpoints surface news articles, calendar events, team members, regional associations (Landesverbände), and a full-text site search.
Community and Leadership Data
The get_communities endpoint returns the full dataset from the Gemeindebund's Bürgermeisterkarte — one record per Austrian community. Each object includes name, type, state, district, population, community_code, and a nested mayor object with salutation, role, first_name, last_name, and full_name. This is the primary reference for pairing community identifiers with current mayoral leadership across all nine Austrian states.
News and Content
get_news_list supports paginated browsing of Gemeindebund news with optional search keyword filtering and category filtering by WordPress category ID. It returns id, title, date, link, excerpt, and slug per article. Pass a slug or post_id from those results to get_news_article to retrieve the full article content as HTML, along with author and link. The search_site endpoint performs a keyword query across all site posts and returns up to 20 results with title, link, and date.
Events and Organizational Structure
get_events returns the Gemeindebund calendar with event id, title, link, date, and slug. get_landesverbaende returns all nine Austrian regional municipal associations, each with name, email, website, and details covering leadership contacts. get_team_members returns Gemeindebund staff with name, role, and email.
Coverage Scope
All endpoints are read-only and require no input parameters except get_news_list (pagination/filter params are optional), get_news_article (needs slug or post_id), and search_site (requires query). Data reflects the Austrian national municipal association's public-facing content, so coverage is Austria-only and limited to what the Gemeindebund publishes.
- Build a searchable directory of Austrian mayors using community name, state, district, and mayor full name from
get_communities. - Monitor Gemeindebund policy news by polling
get_news_listwith category or keyword filters and fetching full text viaget_news_article. - Populate a municipal governance dashboard with population figures and community codes for all Austrian municipalities.
- Aggregate upcoming municipal events from
get_eventsinto a regional government calendar application. - Map regional association contact details from
get_landesverbaendeto build a directory of Landesverbände leadership and websites. - Feed
search_siteresults into an internal knowledge base for Austrian local government research. - Enrich a B2B contact dataset with Gemeindebund staff names, roles, and emails from
get_team_members.
| Tier | Price | Credits/month | Rate limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 100 | 5 req/min |
| Hobby | $30/mo | 1,000 | 20 req/min |
| Developer | $100/mo | 5,000 | 250 req/min |
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Does Gemeindebund.at have an official developer API?+
What does get_communities return and can I filter it by state or district?+
Does the API return historical mayor data or past news archives?+
get_news_list and go back as far as the Gemeindebund site publishes, but there is no dedicated archive or date-range filter parameter. You can fork this API on Parse and revise it to add date-range filtering if needed.Does get_news_article return images or attached media from the article?+
content field, along with title, date, author, link, and the WordPress id. Embedded images within the HTML may be present in the content, but there is no dedicated media or image array in the response. You can fork this API on Parse and revise it to parse and expose media fields separately.