econ

Browse the Federal Reserve FRED category tree to DISCOVER...

Browse the Federal Reserve FRED category tree to DISCOVER economic series. Pass a categoryId to get that category (name + parent), its child categories, and the most-popular series filed under it (id, title, units, frequency) — then pull the data with econ.fred. Omit categoryId (or pass 0) for the eight top-level categories: Money/Banking/Finance, Population/Employment/Labor, National Accounts, Production & Business Activity, Prices, International Data, U.S. Regional Data, Academic Data. Walk down via each child's id. Free, public-domain (FRED). The structured map of what FRED actually contains — far more reliable than guessing series ids. Companion to econ.fred (fetch/search) and econ.fred-releases (calendar).

get/api/econ/fred-categories

Request

  • Base URL: https://2s.io
  • URL: https://2s.io/api/econ/fred-categories
  • Auth: API key in header PAYMENT-SIGNATURE

Query parameters

categoryIdinteger

Category ID.

seriesLimitinteger

Series limit.

trial1

Try before you buy. Set to 1 for one free real call per endpoint per hour — no wallet or payment needed — to verify the endpoint before paying. Equivalent to sending the "X-2s-Trial: 1" request header. Listed only on operations that offer a trial; the others always answer 402.

Response

(unresolved $ref)

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.