Processing Financial Data with FRED API

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• FRED API
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Overview

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

Procedure

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)

fred.search("text", limit=1000, order_by=None, sort_order=None, filter=None) </syntaxhighlight> Do a full text search for series in the FRED data set. Returns the results as a data frame.