From ec07ce1eec7bbb84100aa500f12351f313de313a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mortada Mehyar Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 19:03:01 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] DOC: added fredapi module to ecosystem list --- doc/source/ecosystem.rst | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/source/ecosystem.rst b/doc/source/ecosystem.rst index a88c19c6edd55..194baba807d14 100644 --- a/doc/source/ecosystem.rst +++ b/doc/source/ecosystem.rst @@ -146,6 +146,15 @@ the European statistics office (Eurostat) and the European Central Bank (ECB). Datasets may be returned as pandas Series or multi-indexed DataFrames. +`fredapi `_ +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +fredapi is a Python interface to the `Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) `__ +provided by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. It works with both the FRED database and ALFRED database that +contains point-in-time data (i.e. historic data revisions). fredapi provides a wrapper in python to the FRED +HTTP API, and also provides several conveninent methods for parsing and analyzing point-in-time data from ALFRED. +fredapi makes use of pandas and returns data in a Series or DataFrame. This module requires a FRED API key that +you can obtain for free on the FRED website. + .. _ecosystem.domain: