Economic Research from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

fred/category

• Description
• Example
  • Request
  • Response
• Parameters
  • api_key
  • category_id

Description

Get a category.

Example

Request (HTTP GET)

http://api.stlouisfed.org/fred/category?category_id=125&api_key=abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz123456

Note that API key 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz123456' is for demonstration purposes only. Use a registered API key instead.

Response

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<categories>
<category id="125" name="Trade Balance" parent_id="13"/>
</categories>

The category tag's notes attribute is optional.

Parameters

api_key

Read API Keys for more information.

• 32 character alpha-numeric lowercase string, required

category_id

The id for a category.

• integer, default: 0 (root category)