Fred

Javascript wrapper for the St. Louis Federal Reserve Economic Data Fred API.

Installation

npm install fred-api

Get a FRED API key

Sign up for a Fred API key: http://api.stlouisfed.org/api_key.html

Usage

Instantiate a client

var Fred = require('fred-api');

apiKey = process.env.FRED_KEY;
fred   = new Fred(apiKey);

Examples

fred.getSeries({series_id: 'GNPCA'}, function(error, result) {
    console.log(result)
});

>> Result:

{
    realtime_start: '2015-01-13',
    realtime_end: '2015-01-13',
    seriess: [
        {
            id: 'GNPCA',
            realtime_start: '2015-01-13',
            realtime_end: '2015-01-13',
            title: 'Real Gross National Product',
            observation_start: '1929-01-01',
            observation_end: '2013-01-01',
            frequency: 'Annual',
            frequency_short: 'A',
            units: 'Billions of Chained 2009 Dollars',
            units_short: 'Bil. of Chn. 2009 $',
            seasonal_adjustment: 'Not Seasonally Adjusted',
            seasonal_adjustment_short: 'NSA',
            last_updated: '2014-07-30 10:36:08-05',
            popularity: 25,
            notes: 'BEA Account Code: A001RX1'
        }
    ]
}

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2017 Ryan Leahy

API

categories

getCategory
getCategoryChildren
getCategoryRelated
getCategorySeries
getCategoryTags
getCategoryRelatedTags

releases

getReleases
getReleasesDates
getRelease
getReleaseDates
getReleaseSeries
getReleaseSources
getReleaseTags
getReleaseRelatedTags

series

getSeries
getSeriesCategories
getSeriesObservations
getSeriesRelease
getSeriesSearch
getSeriesSearchTags
getSeriesSearchRelatedTags
getSeriesTags
getSeriesUpdates
getSeriesVintageDates

sources

getSources
getSource
getSourceReleases

tags

getTags
getRelatedTags
getTagsSeries