Lobbywatch MCP server
Lobbywatch.ch transparency data on parliamentarians, interests, access badges
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How Lobbywatch compares
Against every graded MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.
- Safety score
- 85/100
- higher than 70% of 48,255 servers
- Downloads a week
- 23
- more than 9% of 12,191 servers with a package
Release history: 3 versions in the registry since 2026-08-02, latest 2026-10-14, typically one every 56 days.
Install Lobbywatch in Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code
claude mcp add lobbywatch-mcp -- uvx lobbywatch-mcp
What the publisher says
From the Lobbywatch repository's README, as published. We do not edit it. Read it on GitHub
🏛️ lobbywatch-mcp
An MCP server that connects AI models to Lobbywatch.ch, the largest lobby database of the Swiss Federal Parliament — conflicts of interest, lobby groups, access badges, and transparency scores.
🇩🇪 Deutsche Version
Part of the Swiss Public Data MCP Portfolio — connecting AI models to Swiss public data sources.
🎯 Anchor Demo Query
"Welche Mitglieder der WBK-N haben Interessenbindungen zu Bildungsverlagen oder privaten Bildungsträgern, und wie ist ihre Transparenz-Bewertung?"
Which members of the National Council's Education Commission have declared conflicts of interest with educational publishers or private education providers, and how does their compensation transparency score compare?
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Overview
Lobbywatch.ch maintains the largest public database on Swiss federal parliamentarians and their connections to lobby organisations: 245 parliamentarians, ~7'800 interessenbindungen (declared mandates), 139 lobby groups, 368 access-badge holders, updated weekly, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
lobbywatch-mcp exposes this data to Large Language Models via the Model Context Protocol. It is designed to be used alongside parlament-mcp (the official Swiss Parliament's Curia Vista data): the pair makes it possible to ask what a parliamentarian did officially and who they are connected to — in a single conversation.
Features
- Dump-first, API-fallback architecture. The weekly JSON dump is the primary source (stable, verified in production); the live dataIF REST API is used only where it returns reliable data (lobby groups, search).
- Seven Phase 1 tools — parliamentarian lookup, conflict-of-interest listing, branche search, lobby group fetch, rankings, transparency quota, cache control.
- CC BY-SA 4.0 attribution baked into every response via Pydantic envelopes.
- Dual transport — stdio for Claude Desktop, streamable-http / sse for cloud deployments.
- Fuzzy name matching via rapidfuzz for natural LLM input like "Jositsch" or "Wehrli".
- No authentication required (Phase 1 — No-Auth-First).
Architecture
Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.
Nothing above is checked by us. What we check is on the safety report.
Lobbywatch: common questions
- Is Lobbywatch MCP server safe?
- Yes, by our scan: it is graded A (85/100). Read the Lobbywatch safety report
- How do I install Lobbywatch?
- It runs on your machine. Copy the Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Claude Desktop config from the install section.
- Does Lobbywatch need an API key?
- Not as far as the registry entry and our scan can tell: no credentials are declared or required.
- Is Lobbywatch maintained?
- The last commit was 41 days ago (2026-09-24). The latest release is v0.3.8.
- How does Lobbywatch compare with other MCP servers?
- safety score 85/100 (higher than 70% of 48,255 servers); downloads a week 23 (more than 9% of 12,191 servers with a package). Full comparison.