# FRED Shapes API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/fred/fred-shapes-api/  
**Provider:** FRED — https://apis.io/providers/fred/  
**Base URL:** https://api.stlouisfed.org/fred  
**Documentation:** https://fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/fred/

FRED Shapes API is one of 10 APIs that [FRED](https://apis.io/providers/fred/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Shapes. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and authentication docs.

GeoJSON shape files for state, county, MSA, country, and census-tract geographies.

## Machine-readable artifacts (8)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/fred/refs/heads/main/openapi/fred-shapes-api-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/fred/
- **Overview** — https://fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/fred/overview.html
- **APIKey** — https://fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/api_key.html
- **TermsOfService** — https://fred.stlouisfed.org/legal/
- **Authentication** — https://fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/api_key.html
- **RealTimePeriods** — https://fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/fred/realtime_period.html
- **Documentation** — https://fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/geofred/

## Other FRED APIs (9)

- [FRED Categories API](https://apis.io/apis/fred/fred-categories-api/)
- [FRED Observations API](https://apis.io/apis/fred/fred-observations-api/)
- [FRED Regional Data API](https://apis.io/apis/fred/fred-regional-data-api/)
- [FRED Releases API](https://apis.io/apis/fred/fred-releases-api/)
- [FRED Series API](https://apis.io/apis/fred/fred-series-api/)
- [FRED Series Data API](https://apis.io/apis/fred/fred-series-data-api/)
- [FRED Series Group API](https://apis.io/apis/fred/fred-series-group-api/)
- [FRED Sources API](https://apis.io/apis/fred/fred-sources-api/)
- [FRED Tags API](https://apis.io/apis/fred/fred-tags-api/)

## Tags

Shapes

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/fred/fred-shapes-api/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/fred/.