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Moody's Data Buffet API

Moody's Analytics Data Buffet application program interface enables you to retrieve economic, demographic and financial time series directly from the Data Buffet repository, including international and subnational economic and demographic time series data and forecasts.

Moody’s Data Buffet API is one of 26 APIs that Moody’s publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition.

Tagged areas include Demographics, Economic Data, Forecast, and Time Series. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an API reference, an OpenAPI specification, a JSON-LD context, and 1 JSON Schema.

This API exposes 19 operations across 16 paths, and defines 11 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.0.

Requests are made against 2 base URLs: https://api.economy.com/data/v1, https://api.economy.com/scenario-studio/v2.

19 operations 16 paths 11 schemas 1 DELETE4 GET8 POST6 PUT

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
1.0
Base URL
https://api.economy.com
Authentication
OAuth 2.0
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Moody's Data Buffet API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. It supports OAuth 2.0 (oauth2) using the clientCredentials flow.

  • oauth2 — OAuth2 client credentials flow for authenticating API requests. Obtain clientid and clientsecret from your Moody's Analytics account.

Paths & Operations 19

Across 16 paths, the API surfaces 19 operations — 1 DELETE, 4 GET, 8 POST, 6 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Series 19

Operations for retrieving individual and multi-series time series data

GET
/series
Moody's Retrieve a Single Time Series
getSeries 6 params → 200400401404429
POST
/multi-series
Moody's Retrieve Multiple Time Series
getMultiSeries body → 200400401
GET
/project/{projectId}/scenario/{scenarioId}/{variableId}
Gets information about a specific series.
Series_GetSeriesAsync 3 params → 200
PUT
/project/{projectId}/scenario/{scenarioId}/series/{variableId}/equation
Edits the equation of a series.
Series_EditEquation 3 params body → 200
PUT
/project/{projectId}/scenario/{scenarioId}/series/{variableId}/historical/{lastHistorical}
Changes the last historical end point for a series.
Series_ChangeLastHistorical 4 params → 200
GET
/project/{projectId}/scenario/{scenarioId}/series/{variableId}/sharedown
Gets sharedown information for a series.
Series_GetSharedownInfoAsync 3 params → 200
POST
/project/{projectId}/scenario/{scenarioId}/series/{variableId}/sharedown
Checks out all variables within a sharedown chain, and starts the sharedown calculation.
Series_CheckoutSharedownAsync 3 params → 200
POST
/project/{projectId}/scenario/{scenarioId}/series/checkin
Releases a series/unlocks a series without writing data to central. If releasing a custom series that has never been pushed to central, the custom series is deleted.
Series_CheckIn 2 params body → 200
POST
/project/{projectId}/scenario/{scenarioId}/series/checkout
Claim/check out series.
Series_CheckOut 3 params body → 200
POST
/project/{projectId}/scenario/{scenarioId}/series/commit
Push to central/commit a series- writes local data to central.
Series_Commit 2 params body → 200
PUT
/project/{projectId}/scenario/{scenarioId}/series/custom
Edits a custom series.
Series_EditCustomSeries 2 params body → 200
POST
/project/{projectId}/scenario/{scenarioId}/series/custom
Creates new custom series.
Series_CreateCustomSeries 3 params body → 200
DELETE
/project/{projectId}/scenario/{scenarioId}/series/custom
Deletes custom series.
Series_DeleteCustomSeries 2 params body → 200
PUT
/project/{projectId}/scenario/{scenarioId}/series/endogenizeBulk
Sets series' state to endogenous.
Series_EndogenizeBulk 2 params body → 200
PUT
/project/{projectId}/scenario/{scenarioId}/series/exogenize
Sets series' state to exogenous.
Series_ExogenizeBulk 2 params body → 200
PUT
/project/{projectId}/scenario/{scenarioId}/series/exogenize-through
Sets series to be partially exogenized.
Series_ExogenizeThroughBulk 2 params body → 200
POST
/project/{projectId}/scenario/{scenarioId}/series/info
Gets series info for a list of series/expressions.
Series_GetSeriesAsync 2 params body → 200
POST
/project/{projectId}/scenario/{scenarioId}/series/reendogenize
Starts an add factor solve for one or more series.
Series_Reendogenize 2 params body → 200
GET
/project/{projectId}/scenario/{scenarioId}/variable/{variableId}
Gets all meta information for a series.
Series_GetSpecVariableAsync 3 params → 200

Schemas 11

The contract defines 11 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are CustomSeries (33 properties), DataSeriesResult (19 properties), SeriesResponse (13 properties), SeriesRequest (6 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

SeriesResponse
object
Response containing a single time series with metadata and observations.
13 properties 4 required
Observation
object
A single time series observation or forecast data point.
3 properties 2 required
MultiSeriesRequest
object
Request body for retrieving multiple series simultaneously.
1 property 1 required
MultiSeriesResponse
object
Response containing multiple time series.
1 property 1 required
SeriesRequest
object
A single series request within a multi-series call.
6 properties 1 required
Error
object
Standard error response.
3 properties 2 required
DataSeries
object
6 properties
DataSeriesResult
object
19 properties
ExogenizeThroughBulkRequest
object
2 properties
CustomSeries
object
33 properties
CommitPayload
object
2 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

moodys-series-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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