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FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data)

FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data), the St. Louis Fed's database of US and international economic time series: headline US indicators such as the monthly unemployment rate (UNRATE), CPI inflation (CPIAUCSL), GDP (GDP, GDPC1), nonfarm payrolls (PAYEMS), the federal funds rate (FEDFUNDS) and Treasury yields (DGS10), plus 800,000+ other series, including the BLS producer price indexes (PPI) for steel: iron and steel (WPU101), hot-rolled steel sheet / HRC (WPU10170301, discontinued after 2022), hot-rolled bars and plates (WPU101704) and cold-rolled sheet (WPU101707), with latest level and month-over-month and year-over-year change in one call (an index, not a cash HRC quote). Search series by text, browse categories, releases, sources and tags, read one series' metadata (units, frequency, seasonal adjustment, source, notes, date range, last update) and fetch its observations (daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly or annual values) with date window, frequency aggregation and transformation, paginated, from the site's keyless JSON, CSV and HTML endpoints.

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1Request
stringRequired

FRED series id, e.g. GDP, UNRATE (case-insensitive), or a pasted https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/{id} page URL or https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.csv?id=... URL (its `id` is used; other query parameters are ignored).

string

How observations are aggregated when `frequency` is lower than native: average, sum or end of period.

string

Aggregate to a lower frequency (FRED API codes: d daily, w weekly, bw biweekly, m monthly, q quarterly, sa semiannual, a annual). Omit for the native frequency.

number

Observations per page.

string

string

string

FRED transformation code: lin levels, chg change, ch1 change from year ago, pch percent change, pc1 percent change from year ago, pca compounded annual rate of change, cch continuously compounded rate of change, cca continuously compounded annual rate of change, log natural log.

5 credits
Codefollows the fields above
const result = await firecrawl.scrape({
  alexandria: {
    provider: "fred-stlouisfed-org",
    capability: "economic-data/series_observations",
    options: {
      frequency: "a",
      observation_end: "2025-12-31",
      observation_start: "2020-01-01",
      series_id: "GDP",
      units: "pc1",
    },
  },
});
2Response example

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aggregation_method
avg
count
6
frequency
a
last_updated
2026-08-26 07:49:01-05
limit
1000
next_offset
null
observation_end
2025-01-01
observation_start
2020-01-01
observed_at_ms
1790495628994
offset
0
realtime_end
2026-09-27
realtime_start
2026-08-26
series_id
GDP
sort_order
asc
units
pc1
url
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.csv?id=GDP&cosd=2020-01-01&coed=2025-12-31&fq=Annual&fam=avg&transformation=pc1
vintage_date
2026-08-26
daterawvalue
-0.76462-0.76462
10.9957110.99571
9.816259.81625
6.743156.74315
5.344895.34489
4.997224.99722

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Ready-made Firecrawl tools that call FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data).

Uses CME Group FedWatch and market data, FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data), ACIS (NOAA Regional Climate Centers), Element 84 Earth Search (Sentinel-2 L2A)Farm operating loan stress testUse when an agricultural loan officer is renewing a farm operating line and wants to stress the borrower's crop revenue. Reads futures prices for the borrower's crops, the interest rate path, season rainfall against normal at the farm, and satellite vegetation indices on key fields, then frames downside scenarios.5 toolsOpen
Uses BLS labor statistics, FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data), XE currency data, MSC shipment tracking and schedulesImported ingredient cost pass-throughUse when a food manufacturer's procurement manager is deciding how much of an imported ingredient's cost rise to pass on. Reads consumer and import price indexes for the category, the supplier currency against the dollar, ocean sailing options and transit times from origin, then frames the pass-through decision.8 toolsOpen
Uses Alberta Utilities Commission, FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data)Alberta utility rate application intervention prepUse when a consumer advocate or regulatory analyst intervening at the Alberta Utilities Commission is preparing on a utility's rate application. Finds the open proceeding, its filings and the decision text of the last comparable case, the hearing calendar, and inflation to test the requested increase, then lists issues to raise.7 toolsOpen
Uses NHTSA vPIC vehicle decoder, NHTSA, Kelley Blue Book, CarGurus, FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data)+1Auto loan collateral value checkUse when an auto loan underwriter is checking whether the vehicle behind a loan application supports the amount requested. Decodes the VIN, reads book values, compares the dealer's price with market value for similar listings, checks for open recalls, and reads current auto loan rates, then states the loan-to-value position.6 toolsOpen

Benchmarks

Public records benchmarks

Quality, speed and cost, last 24 hours, across every agent call to FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) through Alexandria.

Quality
98.9%
Calls answered without a tool error
Speed
3.6 s
95% of successful calls finish faster
Cost
5 credits
Firecrawl credits per call
Calls
178
Last 24 hours, every Alexandria user
Quality and speed of each tool, last 24 hours
ToolQualitySpeedCalls
Series observations98.6%3.6 s139
Series search100%754 ms37

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