BacenAPI 0.3.0

Package to access time series data from the Central Bank of Brazil via API

📄 README.md

# BacenAPI

**BacenAPI** is a Python package designed to simplify the access and manipulation of time 
series data from the Central Bank of Brazil (Banco Central do Brasil - BCB), using its 
public API (SGS - Sistema Gerenciador de Séries Temporais).

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## 📦 Features

- 🔍 **Search series** using keywords in the metadata
- 🔗 **Generate URLs** for one or more time series from BCB's SGS API
- 📊 **Download and structure** the time series data into a unified `pandas.DataFrame`
- 📁 Supports integration with local metadata files in `.txt` or `.parquet` formats

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## 🚀 Installation

```bash
pip install BacenAPI

Or, if you're developing locally:

git clone https://github.com/LissandroSousa/BacenAPI.py.git
cd BacenAPI
pip install -e .

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🧩 Dependencies

• pandas
• requests

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🛠️ Usage Example

from BacenAPI import bacen_search, bacen_url, bacen_series

# Search for time series by keyword
df_search = bacen_search("IPCA")
print(df_search)

# Get URLs for a specific set of series
urls = bacen_url(series=[433, 4440], start_date="01/01/2020", end_date="01/01/2024")

# Download the data and format as DataFrame
df = bacen_series(urls)
print(df.head())

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📂 Project Structure

BacenAPI/
├── BacenAPI/
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── bacen_search.py
│   ├── bacen_url.py
│   ├── bacen_series.py
│   └── Date/
│       └── arquivo1.txt
├── setup.py
├── pyproject.toml
└── README.md

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👥 Authors

• Paulo Andre
• Lissandro Costa de Sousa
• Prof. Francisco Gildemir Ferreira da Silva (Supervisor)

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📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more details.

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📫 Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

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🌐 Source and Documentation

• Official API: https://dadosabertos.bcb.gov.br/dataset/serie-historica-dos-indicadores-economicos
• SGS API Docs: https://www3.bcb.gov.br/sgspub/localizarseries/localizarSeries.do?method=prepararTelaLocalizarSeries