# FRED (St. Louis Fed) integration

> Federal Reserve Economic Data — read-only access to 800,000+ US and international economic time series (GDP, CPI, unemployment, interest rates, etc.) from 100+ data sources.

- Authentication: apiKey

## Tools (20)

- **Get All Releases**: List all FRED economic data releases (e.g. CPI, Employment Situation, GDP).
- **Get All Releases Dates**: Get release dates across ALL FRED releases — the global release calendar.
- **Get All Sources**: List all data sources (agencies) that contribute series to FRED.
- **Get All Tags**: List all FRED tags, optionally filtered by group, search text, or specific tag names.
- **Get Category**: Get a single FRED category by id (name and parent_id).
- **Get Category Children**: List the child categories under a given parent — for browsing the FRED category tree.
- **Get Category Series**: List all economic data series within a given FRED category.
- **Get Release**: Get metadata for a single FRED release by id.
- **Get Release Dates**: Get historical and upcoming release dates for a specific FRED release.
- **Get Release Series**: List all series included in a FRED release (e.g. all series in the BLS Employment Situation).
- **Get Series**: Get metadata for a single economic data series by series_id (title, units, frequency, observation date range, last updated).
- **Get Series Categories**: Get the FRED categories that a given series belongs to (useful for discovering related series).
- **Get Series Matching Tags**: List all series that match a given set of tags (AND semantics) — e.g. all Japanese monthly monetary series.
- **Get Series Observations**: Get the actual time-series data values for a FRED series, with optional date range, frequency aggregation, and unit transformations. The core data-pull endpoint.
- **Get Series Release**: Get the release that a series belongs to (e.g. CPI, Employment Situation). Useful for grouping series by publication.
- **Get Series Updates**: Get the most recently updated series across FRED — useful for change detection / polling for newly revised data.
- **Get Series Vintage Dates**: Get the historical dates on which a series' values were revised or new values released — the ALFRED vintage history.
- **Get Source**: Get metadata for a single FRED data source by id.
- **Get Source Releases**: List all FRED releases attributed to a given data source.
- **Search Series**: Full-text search across FRED economic data series by keyword. The primary way to resolve a plain-English series description into a series_id.

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Connect FRED (St. Louis Fed) in General Input: https://www.generalinput.com/apps/fred