Get the categories for an economic data series.
Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED)
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 the release for an economic data series.
Get the related FRED tags for one or more FRED tags matching a series search. Optionally, filter results by tag group or tag 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 search words set by the series_search_text parameter. See the related request fred/series/search/tags.
Get the FRED tags for a series search. Optionally, filter results by tag name, tag group, or tag search. See the related request fred/series/search/related_tags.
Get the FRED tags for a series.
Get the dates in history when a series' data values were revised or new data values were released. Vintage dates are the release dates for a series excluding release dates when the data for the series did not change.
Get a source of economic data.
Get the releases for a source.
Get all sources of economic data.
Get the series matching all tags in the tag_names parameter and no tags in the exclude_tag_names parameter.
This request returns shape files from FRED in GeoJSON format.
Get the related FRED tags for one or more FRED tags. Optionally, filter results by tag group or search.
Get the sources for a release of economic data.
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. This request can return either XML or JSON by setting the file_type parameter to xml or json. The default value of file_type is xml.
Get all releases of economic data. This request can return either XML or JSON by setting the file_type parameter to xml or json. The default value of file_type is xml.
Get the sources for a release of economic data. This request can return either XML or JSON by setting the file_type parameter to xml or json. The default value of file_type is xml.
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. 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 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. 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 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.
Retrieves the categories for a specified economic data series.
