Fetch FRED Data

Import economic time series from the St. Louis Fed’s FRED database into a pipeline by series code.

FRED is the database maintained by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, with hundreds of thousands of US and international time series drawn from over a hundred sources. The Fetch FRED Data step imports any of them into a pipeline.

1. Create a pipeline

   Click Create new pipeline in the top right corner, choose the repository and a name, then click Create.

   
2. Add the Fetch FRED Data step

   
3. Enter the series codes

   Every FRED series has a unique code, shown both in the page URL and next to the series name. In the example below the codes are T10Y2Y and MORTGAGE30US.

   

   Add as many series as you need, separated by commas. See a working example pipeline.

   

Once the step runs you can publish the result as a dataset, chart it, or keep transforming it with further steps.

FRED series can also be browsed and fetched through the Data Providers API — see Data providers.

Next steps

Publish dataset

Save the result as an auto-updating dataset.

Apply transform

Compute year-over-year changes, moving averages and more.