fred_get_series
ActiveTool of Fred
AUTHORITATIVE historical time-series for any economic indicator from FRED (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis — the official US macroeconomic data repository, 800k+ series). Pass a series ID like "MORTGAGE30US" (30y mortgage rate), "UNRATE" (unemployment), "CPIAUCSL" (CPI), "GDP", "FEDFUNDS" (Fed funds rate), "HOUST" (housing starts). Returns dates + values + the indicator's units. Use for any macro/Fed data question. If you don't know the series ID, call fred_search first.
Parameters schema
{
"type": "object",
"examples": [
{
"_apiKey": "your-fred-api-key",
"series_id": "MORTGAGE30US"
},
{
"units": "pch",
"_apiKey": "your-fred-api-key",
"series_id": "HOUST",
"observation_end": "2024-12-31",
"observation_start": "2020-01-01"
}
],
"required": [
"series_id",
"_apiKey"
],
"properties": {
"units": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Data transformation: lin (levels), chg (change), ch1 (change from year ago), pch (% change), pc1 (% 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). Default: lin"
},
"_apiKey": {
"type": "string",
"description": "FRED API key"
},
"frequency": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Frequency aggregation (optional). Codes: d, w, bw, m, q, sa, a — English words also accepted (daily/weekly/biweekly/monthly/quarterly/semiannual/annual)."
},
"series_id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "FRED series ID (e.g., \"MORTGAGE30US\", \"HOUST\", \"CSUSHPISA\")"
},
"observation_end": {
"type": "string",
"description": "End date in YYYY-MM-DD format (optional)"
},
"observation_start": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Start date in YYYY-MM-DD format (optional)"
}
}
}No endpoints wrapped at confidence ≥ 0.70.
Parent server
Fred
https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-fred
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