Economic Research from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

fred/series/categories

• Description
• Example
  • Request
  • Response
• Parameters
  • api_key
  • series_id
  • realtime_start
  • realtime_end

Description

Get the categories for an economic data series.

Example

Request (HTTP GET)

http://api.stlouisfed.org/fred/series/categories?series_id=EXJPUS&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="95" name="Monthly Rates" parent_id="15"/>
  <category id="275" name="Japan" parent_id="158"/>
</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

series_id

The id for a series.

• string, required

realtime_start

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

• YYYY-MM-DD formatted string, optional, default: today's date

realtime_end

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

• YYYY-MM-DD formatted string, optional, default: today's date