BLS CPI Data Scraper | US Consumer Price Index
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BLS CPI Data Scraper | US Consumer Price Index
Pull US Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI series with period, value, area, item, and seasonally adjusted flag. Filter by series ID and date range. Built for economists, fintech apps, inflation research, and analysts tracking US consumer price index trends.
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📈 BLS CPI Data Scraper
🚀 Export Consumer Price Index time series in seconds. Pull official BLS CPI observations for any series, any year range, straight to CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes the Consumer Price Index, the headline US inflation measure. This actor uses the official BLS public timeseries API to return monthly observations for any CPI series you specify.
Coverage includes All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), Wage Earners (CPI-W), Chained CPI, regional and metro indexes, and category-level series (food, energy, shelter, medical).
| 🎯 Target Audience | 💡 Primary Use Cases |
|---|---|
| Economists | Track inflation by category |
| Finance teams | Index escalators, COLA |
| Researchers | Long historical data pulls |
| Journalists | Monthly inflation reporting |
📋 What the BLS CPI Data Scraper does
- Calls the BLS public API (v2) for any list of CPI series IDs
- Returns monthly observations with year, period, value, and footnotes
- Supports historical pulls back to series inception
- Flags the latest observation per series
💡 Why it matters: Official inflation data, structured for analysis.
📊 Data fields
Each record includes: period, periodName, results, scrapedAt, seriesId, value, year. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.
⚠️ Good to Know: Without an API key, BLS limits queries. For heavy use, register a free key at bls.gov.
🚀 How to use
- Create a free account w/ $5 credit
- Open the actor
- Set series IDs and optional year range
- Run
- Download dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML
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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Only publicly available data collected.
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