BLS Unemployment Scraper | US Labor Statistics Data
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BLS Unemployment Scraper | US Labor Statistics Data
Pull US Bureau of Labor Statistics unemployment series with period, rate, area, demographic, and seasonally adjusted flag. Filter by series ID and date range. Built for economists, fintech apps, labor market research, and analysts tracking US employment.
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📉 BLS Unemployment Scraper
🚀 Export BLS unemployment time series in seconds. National, state, metro, and county unemployment data, straight to CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks unemployment via the Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program and the Current Population Survey. This actor wraps the official BLS public timeseries API to deliver clean observations for any series.
Coverage spans national rates, state and metro LAUS series, county-level data, and seasonally vs. unadjusted variants.
| 🎯 Target Audience | 💡 Primary Use Cases |
|---|---|
| Economists | Regional labor analysis |
| Real estate teams | Metro demand modelling |
| Journalists | Local unemployment stories |
| Policy researchers | County labor trends |
📋 What the BLS Unemployment Scraper does
- Calls BLS public API for any LAUS or CPS series IDs
- Returns monthly observations with year, period, value
- Supports historical pulls back to series inception
- Flags the latest observation per series
💡 Why it matters: Labor data, ready for analysis without the BLS UI.
📊 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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