fred/category/children

Description
Example
- Request
- Response
Parameters
- api_key
- category_id

Description

Get the child categories for a specified parent category.

Example

Request (HTTP GET)

For category_id 13 (U.S. Trade & International Transactions):

http://api.stlouisfed.org/fred/category/children?category_id=13&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="16" name="Exports" parent_id="13"/>
  <category id="17" name="Imports" parent_id="13"/>
  <category id="3000" name="Income Payments & Receipts" parent_id="13"/>
  <category id="125" name="Trade Balance" parent_id="13"/>
  <category id="127" name="U.S. International Finance" 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)