pyfredapi 0.2.0

A fully featured FRED API client library for Python.

pyfredapi - Python API for the Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED)

pyfredapi is a Python API for accessing the FRED API web service provided by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. pyfredapi makes it easy to retrieve economic data from FRED and ALFRED. Requests to the api can be customized according to the parameters made available by the web service.

pyfredapi aims to be a full featured api for the FRED API web service. pyfredapi provides convenient methods for requesting data series and can return data as a pandas dataframe or as json.

Installation

pip install pyfredapi

Basic Usage

Before using pyfredapi and must have a API key to the FRED API web service. You can apply for one for free on the FRED website.

You can either be set as the environment variable FRED_API_KEY, or pass it to the api_key parameters when initializing pyfredapi.

from pyfredapi import FredApi

# api key set as environment variable
client = FredApi()

# api key passed to initializer
client = FredApi(api_key = "my_api_key")

# get GDP data
client.get_series_data("GDP")

Contributing

Coming soon