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US Bureau of Labor Statistics

api.bls.gov

US labour statistics: consumer prices, unemployment, employment, earnings and productivity, as dated time series.

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1Request

Restrict to one survey abbreviation, e.g. CU.

1 credit⌘ ↵
Code follows the fields above
curl "https://api.fastcrw.com/v1/data/bls/popular" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FASTCRW_API_KEY"

2Response example

A sample shape. Press Run to see live data from US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

JSON
{
  "status": "REQUEST_SUCCEEDED",
  "responseTime": 8,
  "message": [],
  "Results": {
    "series": [
      {
        "seriesID": "CUUR0000SA0"
      },
      {
        "seriesID": "LNS14000000"
      },
      {
        "seriesID": "CES0000000001"
      },
      {
        "seriesID": "CUSR0000SA0"
      },
      {
        "seriesID": "CUUR0000SA0L1E"
      },
      {
        "seriesID": "CUSR0000SA0L1E"
      },
      {
        "seriesID": "CES0500000003"
      },
      {
        "seriesID": "WPUFD49104"
      },
      {
        "seriesID": "WPUFD4"
      },
      {
        "seriesID": "WPSFD4"
      },
      "… 15 more items"
    ]
  }
}

Attribution: Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Licence: A work of the United States Government, not subject to domestic copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. BLS publishes its data for free public use and asks that it be cited as the source.

Ask with this source

A prompt for your agent that names this source and how to call it through the crw MCP.

  • Popular series

    Use US Bureau of Labor Statistics (bls) from fastCRW Pergamon, capability "Popular series" (popular). You want a usable series id quickly without knowing BLS's identifier scheme. Example options: survey=CU. Use the crw MCP tools: crw_find_data to confirm the source and its options, then crw_get_data with provider "bls" and capability "popular". Tell me the credits used and cite the licence from the response. If the crw MCP tools are missing, install them with: npx -y crw-mcp install --api-key <your fastCRW API key>

  • Series data

    Use US Bureau of Labor Statistics (bls) from fastCRW Pergamon, capability "Series data" (series). You know a BLS series id and want its actual numbers over a period. Example options: seriesId=CUUR0000SA0, startyear=2023, endyear=2025. Use the crw MCP tools: crw_find_data to confirm the source and its options, then crw_get_data with provider "bls" and capability "series". Tell me the credits used and cite the licence from the response. If the crw MCP tools are missing, install them with: npx -y crw-mcp install --api-key <your fastCRW API key>

  • Survey detail

    Use US Bureau of Labor Statistics (bls) from fastCRW Pergamon, capability "Survey detail" (survey). You have a survey abbreviation and need to know how its series ids are built. Example options: surveyAbbreviation=CU. Use the crw MCP tools: crw_find_data to confirm the source and its options, then crw_get_data with provider "bls" and capability "survey". Tell me the credits used and cite the licence from the response. If the crw MCP tools are missing, install them with: npx -y crw-mcp install --api-key <your fastCRW API key>

  • Survey list

    Use US Bureau of Labor Statistics (bls) from fastCRW Pergamon, capability "Survey list" (surveys). You do not know which BLS programme publishes the figure you need. Use the crw MCP tools: crw_find_data to confirm the source and its options, then crw_get_data with provider "bls" and capability "surveys". Tell me the credits used and cite the licence from the response. If the crw MCP tools are missing, install them with: npx -y crw-mcp install --api-key <your fastCRW API key>