FRED (St. Louis Fed)
FinanceUSapi.stlouisfed.org
Over 800,000 US and international economic time series from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
The crw MCP on your computer calls FRED (St. Louis Fed) directly, with a free key of your own. Calls cost no credits and the data does not pass through fastCRW. Install it once for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, Gemini CLI or OpenCode, with your fastCRW API key in place of the placeholder:
Capabilities (18)
fred/categoryFree, runs locallyReturns one node of FRED's topic tree: its id, name and parent id.
fred/category-childrenFree, runs locallyReturns the immediate child categories of a node in FRED's topic tree.
fred/category-seriesFree, runs locallyReturns every series filed under one category, each with full series metadata.
fred/observationsFree, runs locallyReturns the actual data points of one FRED series: an array of date/value pairs plus the realtime window they were valid in.
fred/releaseFree, runs locallyReturns one release's record: its name, whether it is press-released and the publisher's URL.
fred/release-datesFree, runs locallyReturns the dates on which releases were or will be published, newest first, each with its release id and name.
fred/releasesFree, runs locallyReturns FRED's catalogue of statistical releases - id, name, publisher link and notes - for every report it ingests.
fred/release-seriesFree, runs locallyReturns every series published as part of one release, each with full series metadata.
fred/searchFree, runs locallyFull-text search over FRED series titles and notes; returns matching series with their full metadata, ranked by search relevance or popularity.
fred/seriesFree, runs locallyReturns one series' descriptive record: title, units, frequency, seasonal adjustment, observation range, last update time, popularity and notes.
fred/series-categoriesFree, runs locallyReturns the FRED category nodes a given series is filed under, with each category's id, name and parent id.
fred/series-releaseFree, runs locallyReturns the statistical release a series belongs to: release id, name, whether it is press-released and the publisher's link.
fred/series-tagsFree, runs locallyReturns the FRED tags attached to a series - geography, frequency, seasonality, source and topic - with each tag's group and series count.
fred/series-updatesFree, runs locallyReturns the series FRED refreshed most recently, newest first, with full metadata including each one's last_updated timestamp.
fred/series-vintagedatesFree, runs locallyReturns the list of dates on which a series was revised or re-released, i.e. every vintage ALFRED holds for it.
fred/sourcesFree, runs locallyReturns the organisations FRED sources data from - BLS, BEA, the Federal Reserve Board and so on - with id, name and link.
fred/tagsFree, runs locallyReturns FRED's tag vocabulary - name, group (geography, frequency, source, seasonality, general), notes, popularity and how many series carry it.
fred/tags-seriesFree, runs locallyReturns every series carrying all of the given tags, with full series metadata.
Licence
FRED provides data and data services to the public for non-commercial, educational, and personal uses subject to a few prohibitions. Furthermore, other uses (e.g., commercial) are subject to additional restrictions.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/legal/Attribution
Display this wherever you show the data. It arrives on every response as provenance.attributionText.
Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED)