mortada/fredapi
Python API for FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) and ALFRED (Archival FRED) observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
52/100
- Activity 64
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4395
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 218
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1654 stars · 242 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
fredapi is a Python wrapper around the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis FRED and ALFRED web services for fetching economic data. It returns data as pandas Series/DataFrames and offers convenient methods for handling point-in-time data revisions.
Use cases
- download FRED economic data series in Python
- get historical GDP values as a pandas DataFrame
- analyze data revisions to see what was known at a past date
- fetch first releases of economic indicators ignoring revisions
- pull S&P 500 time series for analysis
- access ALFRED vintage data for backtesting economic models
When to choose
- you need Federal Reserve economic data in Python with pandas integration
- you want to work with historical data revisions (vintage/realtime data)
- you want a simple, lightweight client for the FRED API
When to avoid
- you need data sources beyond FRED/ALFRED
- you work outside the Python/pandas ecosystem
- you need real-time streaming market data rather than official economic statistics
Facets
library · maturity active
http-client data-science etl data-science analytics fintech apis python cross-platform fred alfred economic-data pandas finance api-wrapper time-series
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/mortada/fredapi · fetched 2026-08-28 · 4ce92e33c9e6
- registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/fredapi/json · fetched 2026-08-29 · 45a87319ead6
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| mortada/fredapi | main | 52 |
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