FRED Economic Data Search
Search FRED, the St. Louis Fed's database of 800,000+ economic series, and get each series' ID, title, frequency, units, seasonal adjustment and date range.
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Frequently asked questions
What is a series ID?
FRED's short code for a series, such as UNRATE for the US unemployment rate.
Why sort by popularity?
The most used series come first, which is usually the one you mean.
Is FRED Economic Data Search free?
It needs a SandBase account. This API is in the SandBase daily free quota (100 calls per organization per day, shared, reset at 00:00 UTC); after that each run costs about $0. on your SandBase account.
Can I call this API directly?
Yes. This page calls fred/series-search on SandBase. Call POST /v1/api/fred/series-search with your SandBase API key; the request example is above.
Are my searches stored?
No. The Lab forwards this one request to SandBase and shows the answer; it keeps neither the input nor the result on the server.