Federal Reserve

Federal Reserve Category API

The Category API from Federal Reserve — 3 operation(s) for category.

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Operations 3

GET /category Get a category #

GET /category/children Get child categories #

GET /category/series Get series in a category #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Federal Reserve FRED Category API
  description: The FRED API allows developers to retrieve economic data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis including categories, releases, series, sources, tags, and observations across thousands of economic time series.
  version: '1.0'
  contact:
    name: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
    url: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/fred/
servers:
- url: https://api.stlouisfed.org/fred
  description: Production
security:
- ApiKey: []
tags:
- name: Category
paths:
  /category:
    get:
      summary: Get a category
      operationId: getCategory
      parameters:
      - name: category_id
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: integer
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Category record
      tags:
      - Category
  /category/children:
    get:
      summary: Get child categories
      operationId: getCategoryChildren
      parameters:
      - name: category_id
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: integer
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Child categories
      tags:
      - Category
  /category/series:
    get:
      summary: Get series in a category
      operationId: getCategorySeries
      parameters:
      - name: category_id
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: integer
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Series records
      tags:
      - Category
components:
  securitySchemes:
    ApiKey:
      type: apiKey
      in: query
      name: api_key