FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) is a web service provided by the Economic Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis that allows developers to retrieve economic data from the FRED and ALFRED websites. Users can customize their requests by data source, release, category, series, and other preferences. The API provides access to over 800,000 economic time series from 108 sources, including categories, releases, series, sources, and tags, as well as geographic data through the Maps API (GeoFRED).
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Get an economic data series. This request can return either XML or JSON by setting the file_type parameter to xml or json. Note that the default value of file_type is xml.
Get the observations or data values for an economic data series.
Get release dates for a release of economic data. Note that release dates are published by data sources and do not necessarily represent when data will be available on FRED or ALFRED websites.
Get release dates for all releases of economic data. Note that release dates are published by data sources and do not necessarily represent when data will be available on the FRED or ALFRED websites.
Get the child categories for a specified parent category.
Get detailed information about a specific economic data category from the Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) system.
Get a release of economic data.
Get economic data series sorted by when observations were updated on the FRED® server (attribute last_updated). Results are limited to series updated within the last two weeks.
Get a category.
Get the child categories for a specified parent category.
Get the related FRED tags for one or more FRED tags within a category. Optionally, filter results by tag group or search. FRED tags are attributes assigned to series. For this request, related FRED tags are the tags assigned to series that match all tags in the tag_names parameter, no tags in the exclude_tag_names parameter, and the category set by the category_id parameter. See the related request fred/category/tags. Series are assigned tags and categories. Indirectly through series, it is possible to get the tags for a category. No tags exist for a category that does not have series.
Get the FRED tags for a category. Optionally, filter results by tag name, tag group, or search. Series are assigned tags and categories. Indirectly through series, it is possible to get the tags for a category. No tags exist for a category that does not have series. See the related request fred/category/related_tags.
Get a release of economic data.
Get release dates for a release of economic data. Note that release dates are published by data sources and do not necessarily represent when data will be available on the FRED or ALFRED websites.
Get the related FRED tags for one or more FRED tags within a release. Optionally, filter results by tag group or search. FRED tags are attributes assigned to series. For this request, related FRED tags are the tags assigned to series that match all tags in the tag_names parameter, no tags in the exclude_tag_names parameter, and the release set by the release_id parameter. See the related request fred/release/tags. Series are assigned tags and releases. Indirectly through series, it is possible to get the tags for a release.
Get the sources for a release of economic data.
Get release table trees for a given release. You can go directly to the tree structure by passing the appropriate element_id. You may also use a drill-down approach to start at the root (top most) element by leaving the element_id off. Note that release dates are published by data sources and do not necessarily represent when data will be available on the FRED or ALFRED websites.
Get the FRED tags for a release. Optionally, filter results by tag name, tag group, or search. Series are assigned tags and releases. Indirectly through series, it is possible to get the tags for a release. See the related request fred/release/related_tags.
Get all releases of economic data.
Get an economic data series.
