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FRED (St. Louis Fed)

api.stlouisfed.org

Over 800,000 US and international economic time series from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

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Runs on your machine under the source's own terms

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:

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

  • Category details

    Use FRED (St. Louis Fed) (fred) from fastCRW Pergamon, capability "Category details" (category). You have a category id and want its name and where it sits in the tree. Example options: category_id=125. Use the crw MCP tools: crw_find_data to confirm the source and its options, then crw_get_data with provider "fred" and capability "category". 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>

  • Child categories

    Use FRED (St. Louis Fed) (fred) from fastCRW Pergamon, capability "Child categories" (category-children). You are walking FRED's taxonomy from the root (id 0) down to a topic. Example options: category_id=13. Use the crw MCP tools: crw_find_data to confirm the source and its options, then crw_get_data with provider "fred" and capability "category-children". 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 in a category

    Use FRED (St. Louis Fed) (fred) from fastCRW Pergamon, capability "Series in a category" (category-series). You have narrowed the topic tree to a category and now want its series. Example options: category_id=125, order_by=series_id, limit=20. Use the crw MCP tools: crw_find_data to confirm the source and its options, then crw_get_data with provider "fred" and capability "category-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>

  • Series observations

    Use FRED (St. Louis Fed) (fred) from fastCRW Pergamon, capability "Series observations" (observations). You have a FRED series id and want its numbers over time. Example options: series_id=UNRATE, observation_start=2015-01-01, units=lin. Use the crw MCP tools: crw_find_data to confirm the source and its options, then crw_get_data with provider "fred" and capability "observations". 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>