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FRED Series Batch Downloader

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from $6.50 / 1,000 record fetcheds

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FRED Series Batch Downloader

FRED Series Batch Downloader

Download batches of economic time-series observations and metadata for configured FRED-style series IDs into clean long-format and optional wide-format datasets.

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from $6.50 / 1,000 record fetcheds

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junipr

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Store title: FRED Series Batch Downloader

Short description: Download batches of economic time-series observations and metadata for configured FRED-style series IDs into clean long-format and optional wide-format datasets.

SEO title: FRED Series Batch Downloader — official public data extraction and monitoring

SEO description: Download batches of economic time-series observations and metadata for configured FRED-style series IDs into clean long-format and optional wide-format datasets. Use it to normalize official public data into clean Apify datasets with source-specific fields and report artifacts.

Categories: SEO_TOOLS, DEVELOPER_TOOLS, AUTOMATION

Keywords: fred, series, batch, downloader, data qa, dataset qa, official/public-data actor

Pay-Per-Event Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-event pricing. Event prices include Apify platform usage; users are not expected to pay a separate platform-usage pass-through charge for the configured pricing model.

  • Tier: D1 — Official/public-data actor
  • Primary event: record-fetched at $0.00908 base
  • Default max charge: $15.00
  • Store discounts: FREE/BRONZE base, SILVER discounted, GOLD deepest approved discount

Event set:

  • actor-start: base $0.02000, GOLD $0.01760. Fred Series Batch Downloader: charged when actor start is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.
  • record-fetched: base $0.00908, GOLD $0.00799. Fred Series Batch Downloader: charged when record fetched is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.
  • event-detected: base $0.01300, GOLD $0.01140. Fred Series Batch Downloader: charged when event detected is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.
  • report-generated: base $0.05000, GOLD $0.04400. Fred Series Batch Downloader: charged when report generated is completed. The price includes Apify platform usage; no separate usage pass-through is intended.

The actor accepts actor-start before work, accepts the primary event before each dataset row, and accepts the configured report event before writing report files. If maxChargeUsd or the live PPE limit blocks a charge, the corresponding row or report is not written.

Public Task Concepts

  • Download quarterly GDP observations
  • Export monthly unemployment observations
  • Track consumer price index changes
  • Build a two-series economic table
  • Download ten-year Treasury observations

Inputs

  • seriesIds
  • apiKey
  • observationStart
  • observationEnd
  • frequency
  • units
  • aggregationMethod
  • includeMetadata
  • includeRevisions
  • outputWideFormat
  • maxSeries
  • timeoutMs

The exact default downloads bounded GDP and unemployment observations through FRED's public Graph CSV route, verified at 2026-07-12T06:15:00Z; no API key is used.

Outputs

  • seriesId
  • date
  • value
  • realtimeStart
  • realtimeEnd
  • title
  • units
  • frequency
  • seasonalAdjustment
  • source
  • metadataFetched
  • warning

Run locally with npm test and npm run build.