DBnomics Providers API

Statistical agencies, central banks, and institutions aggregated by DBnomics.

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dbnomics-providers-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: DBnomics Datasets Providers API
  description: DBnomics is the world's economic database - a free, open-source aggregator run by Cepremap that harvests macroeconomic time series from more than 90 national and international providers (IMF, ECB, Eurostat, World Bank, OECD, BLS, BEA, and more) into one standardized format. The Web API serves providers, datasets, series, and full-text search over HTTPS with no authentication or API key required. This document is grounded in the live Swagger definition published at https://api.db.nomics.world/v22/apispec_1.json (API version 22.1.17).
  version: 22.1.17
  contact:
    name: DBnomics
    url: https://db.nomics.world
    email: contact@nomics.world
  license:
    name: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
    url: https://git.nomics.world/dbnomics/dbnomics-api
servers:
- url: https://api.db.nomics.world/v22
  description: DBnomics Web API v22 (public, no authentication)
tags:
- name: Providers
  description: Statistical agencies, central banks, and institutions aggregated by DBnomics.
paths:
  /providers:
    get:
      operationId: listProviders
      tags:
      - Providers
      summary: List providers
      description: Responds with the paginated list of providers aggregated by DBnomics.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Limit'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Offset'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A list of providers.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  _meta:
                    $ref: '#/components/schemas/Meta'
                  providers:
                    type: object
                    properties:
                      docs:
                        type: array
                        items:
                          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Provider'
                      limit:
                        type: integer
                      num_found:
                        type: integer
                      offset:
                        type: integer
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
  /providers/{provider_code}:
    get:
      operationId: getProvider
      tags:
      - Providers
      summary: Retrieve a provider
      description: Responds with a provider and its category tree of datasets.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ProviderCode'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The requested provider with its category tree.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  _meta:
                    $ref: '#/components/schemas/Meta'
                  provider:
                    $ref: '#/components/schemas/Provider'
                  category_tree:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      type: object
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
components:
  schemas:
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        _meta:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Meta'
        message:
          type: string
    Meta:
      type: object
      description: Request metadata echoed back with every response.
      properties:
        args:
          type: object
        version:
          type: string
          example: 22.1.17
    Provider:
      type: object
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
          example: ECB
        name:
          type: string
          example: European Central Bank
        region:
          type: string
        slug:
          type: string
        terms_of_use:
          type: string
        website:
          type: string
        indexed_at:
          type: string
          format: date-time
  parameters:
    ProviderCode:
      name: provider_code
      in: path
      required: true
      description: Code of the provider (e.g. IMF, ECB, Eurostat, BLS, OECD).
      schema:
        type: string
    Limit:
      name: limit
      in: query
      description: The number of items to return.
      schema:
        type: integer
    Offset:
      name: offset
      in: query
      description: The number of items to skip before starting to collect the result set.
      schema:
        type: integer
  responses:
    BadRequest:
      description: The request parameters are invalid.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    NotFound:
      description: The requested provider, dataset, or series was not found.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'