Retrieves the categories for a specified economic data series. Supports XML or JSON response formats.
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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Returns a cross section of regional data for a specified series_id and date. If no date is specified, the most recent data available are returned. Supports XML or JSON output.
Get the observations or data values for an economic data series. This request can return either XML, JSON, Excel Spreadsheet, or a zipped CSV by setting the file_type parameter to xml, json, xlsx, or csv.
Get the release for 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 FRED tags for a series search. Optionally, filter results by tag name, tag group, or tag search.
Get the FRED tags for a 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 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 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.
Returns shape files from FRED in GeoJSON format.
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 releases for a source. 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 a source of economic data. 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 FRED tags. Optionally, filter results by tag name, tag group, or search. FRED tags are attributes assigned to series.
Returns the economic data series that have been assigned to the specified tags, with metadata and observations filtered by real-time periods.
