FRED API

External

• https://fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/fred/
• https://pypi.org/project/fredapi/

Internal

• FRED

Installation

pip3 install fredapi

Code Examples

• Processing Financial Data with FRED API

Get the API Key

Request an API key from here: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/api_key.html

Code Examples

Initialization

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

Search

fred.search("text", limit=1000, order_by=None, sort_order=None, filter=None)

Do a full text search for series in the FRED data set. Returns the results as a data frame.

Organizatorium

• Source of data over API https://fred.stlouisfed.org and how to do it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R67XuYc9NQ4