FRED Full Access — U.S. Economic Intelligence MCP Server

get_category

Key: 32991 (Money/Banking), 10 (Employment), 32992 (National Accounts), 32455 (Prices). Get a FRED category by ID

get_category_children

Start from root (0) to explore top-level categories. Get child categories of a category

get_category_series

Supports filtering by frequency, units, and tags. Get series within a category

get_category_tags

Get tags for a category

get_geo_shapes

Shapes: bea, msa, frb, necta, state, country, county, censusregion. Get geographic shape files for mapping

get_observations

Supports date filtering, unit transformations (pch, log), and frequency aggregation. Get actual data values for a FRED time series

get_regional_data

Use get_series_group first to find the series_group ID. Get cross-sectional regional economic data

get_release

IDs: 10 (Employment), 53 (GDP), 46 (CPI). Get details for a specific release

get_release_dates

Omit release_id for full economic calendar. Get release dates for economic data

get_release_series

Release 10 contains UNRATE, PAYEMS, and hundreds more. Get all series within a release

get_series

Use IDs like GDP, UNRATE, CPIAUCSL, FEDFUNDS, DGS10. Get metadata for a specific FRED series

get_series_by_tags

Example: usa;gdp returns US GDP series. Get series matching specific tags

get_series_group

Enter a FRED series ID to discover the group ID. Get series group info for GeoFRED

get_series_updates

Filter by macro or regional. Get recently updated FRED series

get_vintage_dates

Essential for ALFRED-style vintage analysis. Get historical revision dates for a series

list_releases

List all FRED economic data releases

list_sources

List all FRED data sources

search_series

Returns matching series with title, frequency, units, popularity. Use order_by=popularity to find the most-used series. Search 816,000+ economic time series by keyword

search_tags

Search or browse FRED tags