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Fetch employment, wage, CPI inflation, and economic indicator data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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US BLS Data Scraper

Fetch employment, wage, CPI inflation, unemployment, and economic indicator data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics Public Data API. Select from 10 popular pre-configured series or query any BLS series ID.

Features

🏦 10 built-in popular series — unemployment, employment, CPI, wages, PPI, and more
🔧 Custom series IDs — query any BLS time series by its ID
📊 Multi-year range — fetch data across multiple years in a single run
📈 Numeric parsing — values automatically parsed to floats for charting/analysis
📋 Structured output — results as both a human-readable table and machine-readable JSON
🔑 No key required — works with zero setup; optional registration key for higher rate limits

Popular Series Included

Series	BLS ID
Unemployment Rate (SA)	LNS14000000
Total Nonfarm Employment	CES0000000001
CPI All Items (NSA)	CUUR0000SA0
CPI All Items (SA)	CUSR0000SA0
Labor Force Participation	LNS11300000
Average Hourly Earnings	CES0500000003
Producer Price Index	WPUFD4
Avg Weekly Hours	CES0500000002
Median Weekly Earnings	LEU0252881500
Employment-Population Ratio	LNS12300000

Input

Series Mode: Popular (pick from list) or Custom (enter BLS IDs)
Start Year / End Year: Date range for data (2000–2026)
Max Results: Cap on data points returned (default 1000)
BLS Registration Key (optional): Get one at https://data.bls.gov/registrationEngine/

Output

The Actor produces a structured dataset where each row is one data point:

Field	Description
`seriesId`	BLS series identifier
`seriesName`	Human-readable series name
`year`	Year of observation
`period`	Period code (M01–M12, Q01–Q04)
`periodName`	Period description
`value`	Raw value string
`numericValue`	Parsed numeric value (float)
`footnotes`	BLS footnote text

Example Input

{
  "seriesMode": "popular",
  "popularSeries": [
    "Unemployment Rate (seasonally adjusted)",
    "CPI All Items (seasonally adjusted)"
  ],
  "startYear": 2024,
  "endYear": 2025
}

Data Source

Data provided by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Public Data API v2. All data is public domain. Please review BLS Terms of Service.

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