FRED Series Group API

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: FRED Maps API (GeoFRED) Categories Series Group API
  version: '1.0'
  description: GeoFRED (the FRED Maps API) exposes geographic / regional views of FRED economic data. Series-group metadata, regional-data lookups across geographies (state, county, MSA, country, census tract, etc.), and GeoJSON shape files for cartographic rendering of FRED indicators.
  contact:
    name: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis — Research Division
    url: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/geofred/
  license:
    name: U.S. Government Work / Public Domain (most series)
    url: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/legal/
  termsOfService: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/legal/
  x-generated-from: documentation
  x-last-validated: '2026-05-28'
servers:
- url: https://api.stlouisfed.org/geofred
  description: Production GeoFRED API
security:
- ApiKeyAuth: []
tags:
- name: Series Group
  description: Series-group metadata — the regional identifier and supported region types for a series.
paths:
  /series/group:
    get:
      operationId: getSeriesGroup
      summary: FRED Get the Series Group for a Series
      description: Get the series group information for a regional data series. The series group identifier groups a collection of series matched along geography, units, frequency, and seasonal adjustment.
      tags:
      - Series Group
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ApiKey'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/FileType'
      - name: series_id
        in: query
        required: true
        description: The FRED series ID.
        schema:
          type: string
        example: UNRATE
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Series group metadata.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/SeriesGroup'
              examples:
                Getseriesgroup200Example:
                  summary: Default getSeriesGroup 200 response
                  x-microcks-default: true
                  value:
                    title: 'All Employees: Total Nonfarm'
                    region_type: state
                    series_group: '1223'
                    season: SA
                    units: Thousands of Persons
                    frequency: Monthly
                    min_date: '1990-01-01'
                    max_date: '2026-04-01'
      x-microcks-operation:
        delay: 0
        dispatcher: FALLBACK
components:
  schemas:
    SeriesGroup:
      type: object
      description: Metadata describing a regional series group.
      properties:
        title:
          type: string
          description: Display title of the series group.
          example: Unemployment Rate
        region_type:
          type: string
          description: Geography type the group covers.
          example: example
        series_group:
          type: string
          description: Series-group identifier.
          example: example
        season:
          type: string
          enum:
          - SA
          - NSA
          - SSA
          - SAAR
          - NSAAR
          example: example
        units:
          type: string
          example: Percent
        frequency:
          type: string
          example: Monthly
        min_date:
          type: string
          format: date
          example: '2026-05-28'
        max_date:
          type: string
          format: date
          example: '2026-05-28'
      required:
      - series_group
      - region_type
  parameters:
    ApiKey:
      name: api_key
      in: query
      required: true
      description: 32-character lower-case alphanumeric FRED API key.
      schema:
        type: string
        pattern: ^[0-9a-f]{32}$
      example: abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789
    FileType:
      name: file_type
      in: query
      required: false
      description: Response format — json or xml.
      schema:
        type: string
        enum:
        - json
        - xml
        default: json
      example: json
  securitySchemes:
    ApiKeyAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: query
      name: api_key
      description: 32-character lower-case alphanumeric FRED API key (same key used for the FRED API).