FRED API

About FRED API

The FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) API is a powerful, public web service maintained by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. It provides developers and researchers with programmatic HTTPS access to hundreds of thousands of economic data time series from dozens of national and international sources.

The API supports highly specific querying capabilities, allowing users to extract data across various categories, track data releases, and retrieve specific historical data series spanning decades. Access to the API is free but requires registration for an API key, which must be passed in the requests for authentication.

With average response times around 253ms, it is a highly performant tool suitable for real-time dashboards and macroeconomic analysis platforms. It natively supports Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS), allowing it to be queried directly from web browsers in front-end applications.

Key Features

• Feature 1: Access to hundreds of thousands of macroeconomic time series.
• Feature 2: Dedicated endpoints for Categories, Releases, and Series data.
• Feature 3: Free access via an API key passed as a Bearer token.
• Feature 4: Highly performant HTTPS protocol with average 253ms response times.
• Feature 5: Full CORS support for client-side browser application integration.
• Feature 6: Provides an accompanying Maps API for regional economic data.