{"repo":"7astro7/full_fred","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/7astro7/full_fred","clone":"git clone https://github.com/7astro7/full_fred.git","description":"Full Python interface to Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED)","language":"Python","stars":115,"topics":["economic-data","python","fred","economics","statistics","finance"],"license":"Apache-2.0","category":"trading","readme_excerpt":"full fred full fred is a Python interface to FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) that prioritizes user preference, flexibility, and speed. full fred 's API translates to Python every type of request FRED supports: each query for Categories, Releases, Series, Sources, Tags, and Maps (GeoFRED) found within FRED's web service has a method associated with it in full fred . full fred minimizes redundant queries for the sake of users and FRED's servers. After a request for data is made to FRED web service the retrieved data is stored in a dictionary, accessible and fungible Installation pip install full-fred Testing requires . Tests can be run with environment variable set and: Usage API Key Queries to FRED web service require an API key. FRED has free API keys available with an account (also free) You can tell about an api key in 2 secure ways: 1. fred.api key file can be set by passing it to the constructor This will set it too If the file assigned to can't be found, will say so immediately if api key file is set using the surefire 2. FRED API KEY Environment Variable will automatically detect your api key if it's assigned to an environment variable named . To check that FRED API KEY environment variable is detected, you can use does not store your api key in an attribute for the sake of security: to send queries to FRED's databases, uses the value of FRED API KEY environment variable or the first line of fred.api key file Fetching data A pandas DataFrame stores observations whe","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/7astro7","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/7astro7/full_fred/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}