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FRED Categories API

Category hierarchy navigation — children, related, series, and tags within a category.

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FRED Categories API is one of 10 APIs that FRED publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Categories. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and authentication docs.

This API exposes 6 operations across 6 paths, and defines 7 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version 1.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.stlouisfed.org/geofred.

6 operations 6 paths 7 schemas 6 GET

Metadata

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Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.3
API Version
1.0
Base URL
https://api.stlouisfed.org/fred
Authentication
API Key
Contact
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis — Research Division
License
U.S. Government Work / Public Domain (most series)
Terms of Service
View terms
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

FRED Categories API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. An API key is passed in the query as api_key (ApiKeyAuth). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • ApiKeyAuth — 32-character lower-case alphanumeric FRED API key (same key used for the FRED API).

Paths & Operations 6

Across 6 paths, the API surfaces 6 operations — 6 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Categories 6

Category hierarchy navigation — children, related, series, and tags within a category.

GET
/category
FRED Get a Category
getCategory 3 params → 200400403
GET
/category/children
FRED Get the Child Categories for a Category
getCategoryChildren 5 params → 200400403
GET
/category/related
FRED Get the Related Categories for a Category
getCategoryRelated 5 params → 200
GET
/category/series
FRED Get the Series in a Category
getCategorySeries 13 params → 200
GET
/category/tags
FRED Get the Tags for a Category
getCategoryTags 12 params → 200
GET
/category/related_tags
FRED Get the Related Tags for a Category
getCategoryRelatedTags 13 params → 200

Schemas 7

The contract defines 7 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Series (16 properties), SeriesList (8 properties), TagList (8 properties), Tag (6 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

Tag
object
A FRED tag.
6 properties 2 required
CategoryList
object
A list of FRED categories.
1 property 1 required
TagList
object
A list of FRED tags.
8 properties 1 required
SeriesList
object
A list of FRED series.
8 properties 1 required
Category
object
A FRED category node.
4 properties 3 required
ErrorResponse
object
FRED error response.
2 properties 2 required
Series
object
A FRED economic data series and its metadata.
16 properties 2 required

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

fred-categories-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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FRED Observations API
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FRED Regional Data API
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FRED Releases API
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FRED Series API
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FRED Series Data API
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FRED Series Group API
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FRED Shapes API
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FRED Sources API
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FRED Tags API
AE Profile APIs.io
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API Details
ID
fred:fred-categories-api
Base URL
https://api.stlouisfed.org/fred
Docs
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/fred/
Provider
FRED
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