Python wrapper of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank's FRED API web service for retrieving economic data.
FRED API Documentation: http://api.stlouisfed.org/docs/fred/
Sign up for a FRED API key: http://api.stlouisfed.org/api_key.html
Without your API key saved in the fred_api_key.py file:
>>> from fred import Fred
>>> Fred('my_api_key').category(category_id=125)
With your API key saved in the fred_api_key file:
>>> from fred import Fred
>>> Fred().category(category_id=125)
category-- Get economic data for a specific category.
>>> Fred().category(category_id=120)
releases-- Get all releases of economic data.
>>> Fred().releases(limit=10)
>>> Fred().releases('dates', xml_output=True)
release-- Get economic data for a specific release.
>>> Fred().release('series', release_id=51)
series-- Get economic series of data.
>>> Fred().series('search', search_text="money stock")
>>> Fred().series(series_id='IRA')
sources-- Get all of FRED's sources of economic data.
>>> Fred().sources()
source-- Get a single source of economic data.
>>> Fred().source(source_id=51)
api-- Generic way of interacting with the FRED API.
>>> Fred().api('release', 'dates', release_id=51)
>>> Fred().api('category', category_id=119)
NOTE: Normally, data is returned in dictionary format instead of XML. If you're
looking for XML output, however, just pass in the xml_output=True argument to a
method.
>>> Fred().releases(xml_output=True)
Author: Zach Williams
All code released under the Unlicense (a.k.a. Public Domain).