FRED
FRED · Banking and investing
US and international economic data from the St. Louis Fed: series, releases and sources
The client pastes their API key from FRED's settings. We store it encrypted.
Tested against FRED's live API.
Building with FRED? The docs have setup steps and code for every tool.
Open the FRED docsTools
Your agent calls any endpoint of FRED's API with the request tool, with the client's access attached.
Base URL for request
https://api.stlouisfed.org/fred
request
HTTPS ANY /v1/clients/{clientId}/fred/{path}
Any endpoint of FRED's own API, with the client's access attached.
- servicestringrequired
- This service: fred
- methodstringrequired
- GET, POST, PUT, PATCH or DELETE
- pathstringrequired
- The path under https://api.stlouisfed.org/fred
- queryobjectoptional
- Query parameters
- bodyobjectoptional
- A JSON body
Over MCP every tool also takes client_id, from list_clients. Over HTTPS send it as clientId to https://api.operate.as/v1.
What the client approves
- Use the FRED key you paste, with only the access you gave that key
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