pyfredapi 0.4.1

A full featured library for the FRED API web service.

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

pyfredapi is a Python library for the FRED API web service. pyfredapi covers all the FRED api endpoints and can return data as a pandas dataframe or json. Checkout the docs to learn more.

Installation

pip install pyfredapi

Basic Usage

Before using pyfredapi and must have an 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 FredSeries

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

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

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