fred/release/dates

Description
Example
- Request
- Response
Parameters
- api_key
- release_id
- realtime_start
- realtime_end
- limit
- offset
- sort_order

Description

Get release dates for a release of economic data.

Note that release dates are only returned for releases on the ALFRED website. No release dates are available if a release only has series available on the FRED website and not the ALFRED website. Internally, updates to FRED only series do not store release dates.

Example

Request (HTTP GET)

http://api.stlouisfed.org/fred/release/dates?release_id=82&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" ?>
<release_dates realtime_start="1776-07-04" realtime_end="9999-12-31" order_by="release_date" sort_order="asc" count="12" offset="0" limit="10000">
  <release_date release_id="82">1997-02-10</release_date>
  <release_date release_id="82">1998-02-10</release_date>
  <release_date release_id="82">1999-02-04</release_date>
  <release_date release_id="82">2000-02-10</release_date>
  <release_date release_id="82">2001-01-16</release_date>
  <release_date release_id="82">2002-02-06</release_date>
  <release_date release_id="82">2003-02-07</release_date>
  <release_date release_id="82">2004-02-09</release_date>
  <release_date release_id="82">2005-02-17</release_date>
  <release_date release_id="82">2006-02-13</release_date>
  <release_date release_id="82">2007-02-16</release_date>
  <release_date release_id="82">2008-02-11</release_date>
</release_dates>

Parameters

api_key

Read API Keys for more information.

32 character alpha-numeric lowercase string, required

release_id

The id for a release.

integer, required

realtime_start

The start of the real-time period. For more information, see Real-Time Periods.

YYYY-MM-DD formatted string, optional, default: 1776-07-04 (earliest available)

realtime_end

The end of the real-time period. For more information, see Real-Time Periods.

YYYY-MM-DD formatted string, optional, default: 9999-12-31 (latest available)

limit

The maximum number of results to return.

integer between 1 and 10000, optional, default: 10000

offset

non-negative integer, optional, default: 0

sort_order

Sort results is ascending or descending release date order.

One of the following strings: 'asc', 'desc'.
optional, default: asc