economy

Get household spending by country and category

Returns annual household final consumption expenditure per country and spending category, from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. Categories are the thirteen top-level COICOP 2018 divisions (food, housing, transport, restaurants_hotels, insurance_financial and so on) plus total. Pick a unit: eur_millions for the size of the market, eur_per_capita to compare countries of different size, or share_of_total for the percentage of all household spending. Results come back as data.series[], one per country and category, each with points[] of { year, value }. A year Eurostat has not published for a country is null, never 0, and the latest years are often provisional. Covers EU and EEA countries and some candidates; the latest published year differs by country, so recent years can be null for some of them. Norway, the United Kingdom, Iceland, Albania, North Macedonia and Kosovo come from Eurostat's older COICOP 1999 dataset, the only one that still carries them: there miscellaneous also includes insurance and financial services, insurance_financial is null, and the United Kingdom stops at 2019. country_code takes ISO codes (GR for Greece, GB for the United Kingdom, EU27 for the union) and Eurostat's own EL and UK spellings. The response also carries dataset (id, label, last update), unit and a source_note.

get/economy/consumer-spend

Request

  • Base URL: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1
  • URL: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/economy/consumer-spend
  • Auth: API key in header x-api-key

Query parameters

country_codestring required

One or more ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes, comma-separated (up to 10), e.g. DE,FR,GR. EU27 returns the European Union total.

categorystring

Spending categories, comma-separated. Any of total, food, alcohol_tobacco, clothing, housing, furnishings, health, transport, communication, recreation, education, restaurants_hotels, insurance_financial, miscellaneous. Defaults to all fourteen.

from_yearinteger

First year to return. Defaults to five years before the current year.

to_yearinteger

Last year to return. Defaults to the latest year Eurostat has.

unit'eur_millions' | 'eur_per_capita' | 'share_of_total'

eur_millions (current prices, million euro, the default), eur_per_capita (current prices, euro per person) or share_of_total (percentage of total household spending).

Headers

Cache-Controlstring

Send no-cache to bypass the response cache and force a live fetch. Billed at the normal endpoint cost; the fresh result is written back to cache for the next caller. Only the no-cache directive triggers this. See the Response Schema guide for details.

Idempotency-Keystring

Optional UUID that makes the request safely retriable. The key is reserved atomically per account before billing. A concurrent retry receives 409 IDEMPOTENCY_IN_PROGRESS with a Retry-After of 1 second while the original is young, growing to a quarter of the time it has been running (at most 30); a crashed reservation expires after 5 minutes. A replay keeps the cached payload immutable except for billing metadata: credits_used becomes 0, idempotent_replay becomes true, and credits_remaining is refreshed to the current balance. A known current balance appears in both the body and X-Credits-Remaining header; no balance row resolves to 0. On a transient lookup failure, body credits_remaining is null and X-Credits-Remaining is omitted. Completed outcomes expire after 24 hours. If the claim store is unavailable, the request fails closed before billing. GET endpoints do not combine idempotent replay with Server-Sent Events: use Accept: application/json when sending this header. The unsupported key-plus-SSE combination is rejected before billing.

Response

Successful response

successboolean required

Whether the request succeeded

platformstring required

Platform name

endpointstring required

API endpoint path

credits_usedinteger required

Number of credits consumed

credits_remaininginteger nullable required

Current account balance, or null when this response could not establish one. Free cache hits always return null because they do not establish an authoritative post-request balance. An idempotency replay also returns null when its current-balance lookup fails. It is never a fabricated zero, so a zero here means the account really is empty. The authoritative reading is the one on a billed response, which comes straight from the deduction.

request_idstring required

Unique request identifier for support

cachedboolean required

Whether the response was served from cache

idempotent_replayboolean

True only when this response is an idempotency replay

Example response

{
  "success": true,
  "platform": "economy",
  "endpoint": "/v1/economy/consumer-spend",
  "credits_used": 1,
  "credits_remaining": 4999,
  "request_id": "req-abc123",
  "idempotent_replay": true,
  "meta": {
    "hint": {
      "code": "search_multi",
      "message": "You searched \"matcha\" on 3 platforms one call at a time; /v1/search/multi returns each platform's own search rows in one call at the same price per platform, and a platform with no rows is not charged.",
      "method": "GET",
      "path": "/v1/search/multi?query=matcha&platforms=instagram,tiktok,youtube"
    }
  }
}

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