Fred

This is a Ruby wrapper for the St. Louis Federal Reserve Economic Data Fred API.

Installation

In your Rails directory:

script/plugin install git://github.com/phuphighter/fred.git

Get a FRED API key

Usage

Instantiate a client

>> fred = Fred::Client.new(:api_key => 'your_api_key')

or configure once

>> Fred.configure do |config|
>>   config.api_key = 'your_api_key'
>> end
>> fred = Fred::Client.new

Examples

>> fred.category(nil, :category_id => '125')
=> {"categories"=>{"category"=>{"name"=>"Trade Balance", "id"=>"125", "parent_id"=>"13"}}}

>> fred.series("categories", :series_id => 'EXJPUS')
=> {"categories"=>{"category"=>[{"name"=>"Monthly Rates", "id"=>"95", "parent_id"=>"15"}, {"name"=>"Japan", "id"=>"275", "parent_id"=>"158"}]}}

Copyright

Contact me if you have any suggestions and feel free to fork it!