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openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: Moody's Data Buffet Orders API
version: 1.0.0
description: The Moody's Analytics Data Buffet API provides programmatic access to international and subnational economic, demographic, and financial time series data and forecasts. It enables retrieval of individual series or baskets of data, supports frequency conversion, mathematical transformations, date range filtering, and vintage/versioning selection. Code samples are available in C#, Java, Python, and R.
contact:
name: Moody's Analytics
url: https://www.economy.com/products/tools/data-buffet
license:
name: Moody's Analytics Terms of Use
url: https://www.moodys.com/web/en/us/about/legal/terms-of-use.html
servers:
- url: https://api.economy.com/data/v1
description: Moody's Analytics Data Buffet production server
security:
- oauth2: []
tags:
- name: Orders
description: Operations for managing data generation orders from baskets
paths:
/orders:
get:
operationId: listOrders
summary: Moody's List All Orders
description: Returns a list of all data generation orders for the authenticated user. Orders are created from baskets and produce output files in the requested format.
tags:
- Orders
responses:
'200':
description: Successfully retrieved order list
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Order'
'401':
description: Unauthorized - invalid or expired token
x-microcks-operation:
delay: 0
dispatcher: FALLBACK
post:
operationId: createOrder
summary: Moody's Create a New Order
description: Creates a new data generation order from a basket. The order will be processed asynchronously and produce output in the specified file format.
tags:
- Orders
requestBody:
required: true
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/OrderCreate'
responses:
'201':
description: Successfully created order
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Order'
'400':
description: Invalid order request
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
'401':
description: Unauthorized - invalid or expired token
x-microcks-operation:
delay: 0
dispatcher: FALLBACK
/orders/{orderId}:
get:
operationId: getOrder
summary: Moody's Retrieve a Specific Order
description: Returns the status and details of a specific order, including processing status and download URL when complete.
tags:
- Orders
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/orderId'
responses:
'200':
description: Successfully retrieved order
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Order'
'401':
description: Unauthorized - invalid or expired token
'404':
description: Order not found
x-microcks-operation:
delay: 0
dispatcher: FALLBACK
/orders/{orderId}/download:
get:
operationId: downloadOrder
summary: Moody's Download Order Output
description: Downloads the output file for a completed order. The file format is determined by the fileType specified when creating the order.
tags:
- Orders
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/orderId'
responses:
'200':
description: Successfully downloaded order output
content:
application/octet-stream:
schema:
type: string
format: binary
'401':
description: Unauthorized - invalid or expired token
'404':
description: Order not found or not yet complete
x-microcks-operation:
delay: 0
dispatcher: FALLBACK
components:
parameters:
orderId:
name: orderId
in: path
description: The unique identifier of the order.
required: true
schema:
type: string
schemas:
Error:
type: object
description: Standard error response.
required:
- code
- message
properties:
code:
type: string
description: Machine-readable error code.
example: example_value
message:
type: string
description: Human-readable error message.
example: example_value
details:
type: string
description: Additional details about the error.
example: example_value
Order:
type: object
description: A data generation order created from a basket. Orders are processed asynchronously and produce downloadable output files.
required:
- orderId
- basketId
- status
properties:
orderId:
type: string
description: Unique identifier for the order.
example: '500123'
basketId:
type: string
description: The basket from which the order was generated.
example: '500123'
status:
type: string
description: Current processing status of the order.
enum:
- Pending
- Processing
- Complete
- Failed
example: Pending
fileType:
type: string
description: The output file format for the order.
example: example_value
createdAt:
type: string
format: date-time
description: When the order was created.
example: '2026-01-15T10:30:00Z'
completedAt:
type: string
format: date-time
description: When the order processing completed.
example: '2026-01-15T10:30:00Z'
downloadUrl:
type: string
format: uri
description: URL to download the order output. Available only when status is Complete.
example: https://www.example.com
errorMessage:
type: string
description: Error description if the order failed. Present only when status is Failed.
example: example_value
OrderCreate:
type: object
description: Request body for creating a new order.
required:
- basketId
- fileType
properties:
basketId:
type: string
description: The basket to generate the order from.
example: '500123'
fileType:
type: string
description: The desired output file format. Use the /filetypes endpoint to retrieve supported formats.
example: example_value
securitySchemes:
oauth2:
type: oauth2
description: OAuth2 client credentials flow for authenticating API requests. Obtain client_id and client_secret from your Moody's Analytics account.
flows:
clientCredentials:
tokenUrl: https://api.economy.com/data/v1/oauth2/token
scopes: {}
externalDocs:
description: Moody's Data Buffet API Documentation
url: https://api.economy.com/data/v1/swagger