Argentina Economic Data API — inflation, USD, macro (no key)

Argentina's official economic indicators as a clean HTTP API (and MCP tool). Search 30,000+ time series from the national open-data portal — inflation (CPI/IPC), the official USD exchange rate, EMAE (monthly activity), employment, wages, trade, monetary aggregates — and pull them as aligned, typed JSON. Official data (INDEC, Programación Macroeconómica, BCRA-sourced series via Series de Tiempo, datos.gob.ar), no API key, one price per query.

• 🔎 Search — find indicators by text (inflación, tipo de cambio, EMAE, desempleo) → series id + title + units + frequency + coverage + source.
• 📈 Series — fetch one or many series aligned by date, with date range, resampling (collapse to month/quarter/year), aggregation, and level/change/percent-change representations.
• 🇦🇷 The Argentine surface almost nobody wraps for the world — clean JSON, English-friendly output, ready for agents.
• 💵 Pay per query · no key · official data.

The use case it was built for

Argentine macro data is authoritative and free, but scattered across INDEC, the central bank and dozens of datasets, each with its own format and series codes. Fintech apps, dashboards, newsrooms and analysts end up re-parsing the same portals. This Actor gives you one endpoint: search to discover the series id you need, then series to pull the values (single or multi-series, with the transforms you want). Perfect for an inflation tracker, a "blue vs official dollar" panel, or feeding a trading/econ agent over MCP.

Sample output (series, CPI last 3 months)

{
  "ids": ["148.3_INIVELNAL_DICI_M_26"],
  "columns": ["date", "148.3_INIVELNAL_DICI_M_26"],
  "frequency": "month",
  "series": [{ "id": "148.3_INIVELNAL_DICI_M_26", "title": "IPC nivel general",
               "units": "Índice", "publisher": "INDEC" }],
  "data": [["2026-04-01", 8234.1], ["2026-05-01", 8456.7], ["2026-06-01", 8611.2]]
}

How to use

• HTTP API (Standby): POST or GET /search, /series. GET / returns help. Example: GET /series?ids=168.1_T_CAMBIOR_D_0_0_26&last=30 (last 30 days of the official USD rate).
• Normal run / daily job: pass { operation, ... } as input; the result lands in the dataset and key-value store.
• MCP tool: expose it to your agent via Apify's MCP server.

Input

• operation — search or series.
• q — (search) text to find indicators.
• ids — (series) one or more series ids (from search), max 20 per query.
• start_date / end_date — YYYY, YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD.
• collapse — resample: day · week · month · quarter · year; aggregation — avg · sum · end_of_period · min · max.
• representation — value, change, percent_change, *_since_beginning_of_year, *_a_year_ago.
• last / limit — last N observations, or a row cap. metadata — none · simple · full. sort — asc · desc.

Pricing

Per query from $0.01 (drops to $0.003 on higher tiers). One search or series call = one query; a series call can return many aligned series at once. Lightweight (pure HTTPS, no proxy/browser).

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FAQ

Do I need a key? No. The datos.gob.ar Series de Tiempo API is keyless.

How do I find a series id? Use search with plain text (Spanish works best, e.g. inflación, tipo de cambio, reservas). Each result includes the id to pass to series.

What about the BCRA's own API? Its direct endpoints changed versions; this Actor uses Series de Tiempo, which already carries the dollar, inflation and reserves series, so you don't need to chase BCRA versions.

Is this investment advice? No — official statistics as-is; how you use them is your responsibility.

Notes & limits

Data comes from the Argentine national open-data portal (apis.datos.gob.ar). Coverage and revisions follow the publishing agencies (INDEC, etc.). Max 20 series ids per series call.