package fred

API Documentation: https://gborough.github.io/fred/fred/fred/index.html

Fred

API binding for FRED, the Federal Reserve Economic Data set(https://fred.stlouisfed.org/)

Up-to-date as of April 2024

User Manual

Step 1: Obtain API key

Visit https://fredaccount.stlouisfed.org/login/secure/ and register for an account to obtain API key

Step 2: Example API calls

This library is organised in modules that reflect available FRED API endpoints:

• Categories_query
• Releases_query
• Series_query
• Sources_query
• Tags_query
• Maps_query

The general steps are:

1. Setup API key credential via either "FRED_API_KEY" env variable or API key string
2. Make query string
3. Run query string with credential
4. Obtain query result. The result is generally of type ('data_model, 'api_error) result Lwt.t
5. Handle result(or together in step 4)

Example of a full Categories Series query:

open Fred

let api_key = Conf.api_key_of_string "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz123456" in
(* or set API key in FRED_API_KEY env variable, using Conf.api_key_of_env *)
let query =
    Categories_query.make_series_query ~realtime_start:"2024-04-11" ~realtime_end:"2024-04-11"
      ~limit:1 ~offset:1 ~order_by:Models.Series.Title
      ~sort_order:Models.Sort_order.Ascending
      ~filter_variable:Models.Series.Frequency ~filter_value:"Quarterly"
      ~tag_names:"income;bea" ~exclude_tag_names:"discontinued;annual"
      ~category_id:125 ()
(* make query with various parameters *)
in
let run = Categories_query.run_series_query ~query:query ~api_key:api_key in
(* run query *)
let res = get_result run in
(* get result *)
match res with
| Ok r -> (* handle returned categories type *)
| Error e -> (* handle returned api_error type *)

Notes

Supported Platforms: UNIX

Caveats:

• Due to lack of version information from FRED, official API additions and deprecations announcements tracked in CHANGES are on best-effort basis
• Maps Shape File query appears to be defunct

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in fred by you, shall be licensed as MIT, without any additional terms or conditions.