Federal Reserve

Federal Reserve Series API

The Series API from Federal Reserve — 3 operation(s) for series.

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Operations 3

GET /series Get a series #
GET /series/observations Get observations for a series #
GET /series/search Search series by text #

Documentation

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Documentation
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/fred

Specifications

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OpenAPI
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/federal-reserve/refs/heads/main/openapi/federal-reserve-series-api-openapi.yml

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OpenAPI Specification

federal-reserve-series-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Federal Reserve FRED Category Series 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: Series
paths:
  /series:
    get:
      summary: Get a series
      operationId: getSeries
      parameters:
      - name: series_id
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Series record
      tags:
      - Series
  /series/observations:
    get:
      summary: Get observations for a series
      operationId: getSeriesObservations
      parameters:
      - name: series_id
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: observation_start
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
          format: date
      - name: observation_end
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
          format: date
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Observation records
      tags:
      - Series
  /series/search:
    get:
      summary: Search series by text
      operationId: searchSeries
      parameters:
      - name: search_text
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Search results
      tags:
      - Series
components:
  securitySchemes:
    ApiKey:
      type: apiKey
      in: query
      name: api_key