source

Browse the institutions (sources) that publish data on FRED®.

A source represents an organization that provides economic data to FRED, such as:

  •   Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
  •   U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
  •   U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

The source command lets you explore these institutions, inspect their metadata, and see which releases they publish.


USAGE

Usage: reserve source [subcommand]

Available Subcommands:

CommandDescription
getFetch metadata for a data source
listList all FRED data sources
releasesList releases published by a source

reserve source [subcommand] –help (for more details about a specific subcommand)


GET

List all FRED data sources.

Usage: reserve source list [flags]

## General usage
$ reserve source list

## Limit sources
$ reserve source list --limit 20

## Limit sources and format for spreadsheet import
$ reserve source list --limit 20 --format csv

## General usage
$ reserve source list

## Limit sources
$ reserve source list --limit 20

## Limit sources and format for spreadsheet import
$ reserve source list --limit 20 --format csv

GET

Fetch metadata for a specific source.

Usage: reserve source get <SOURCE_ID>

## Source ID 1
$ reserve source get 1

# Get source id 1 and format as JSON
$ reserve source get 1 --format json

## Source ID 1
$ reserve source get 1

# Get source id 1 and format as JSON
$ reserve source get 1 --format json

RELEASES

List releases published by a specific source.

Usage: reserve source releases <SOURCE_ID> [flags]

## Get releases published by source id 1 (default 20)
$ reserve source releases 1

## Get releases published by source id 1 limiting to 5
$ reserve source releases 1 --limit 5

## Get releases published by source id 1 and format for spreadsheet import
$ reserve source releases 1 --format csv

## Get releases published by source id 1 (default 20)
$ reserve source releases 1

## Get releases published by source id 1 limiting to 5
$ reserve source releases 1 --limit 5

## Get releases published by source id 1 and format for spreadsheet import
$ reserve source releases 1 --format csv

WORKFLOW

## Discover data sources:

$ reserve source list

## Inspect a specific source:

$ reserve source get 1

## See the releases it publishes:

$ reserve source releases 1 --limit 50

See Global Flags for additional global options available for this command.

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