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This article describes the sequence of steps required to process financial data obtained from FRED API.

Import the package and establish a connection to the FRED backend, providing the API Key obtained as described here.

from fredapi import Fred
fred = Fred(api_key='...')

Search for a dataset using full text search. The result is a DataFrame.

df = fred.search("S&P", limit=1000, order_by=None, sort_order=None, filter=None)

The exploration yields a series with the ID "SP500".

Retrieve the Series:

s = fred.get_series(series_id="SP500")

The series is already time-indexed.

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 The exploration yields a series with the ID "SP500".
-fred.search("text", limit=1000, order_by=None, sort_order=None, filter=None)
+Retrieve the [[Panda_Series|Series]]:
+<syntaxhighlight lang='py'>
+s = fred.get_series(series_id="SP500")
 </syntaxhighlight>
-Do a full text search for series in the FRED data set. Returns the results as a [[Pandas_Concepts#Data_Frame|data frame]].
-==Get Series==
+The series is already time-indexed.