FRED Economic Data

com.olyport/fred

Connects Claude to the Federal Reserve Economic Data API, giving you programmatic access to over 800,000 economic time series maintained by the St. Louis Fed. You can query GDP figures, unemployment rates, inflation data, interest rates, housing statistics, and a massive catalog of other indicators spanning decades of US economic history. Reach for this when you need to pull historical or current economic metrics into your analysis, build dashboards around Fed data, or answer questions that require authoritative macroeconomic statistics. Part of OlyPort's suite of federal data servers, runs on streamable-http transport with a free tier of 100 calls per day.

tools: 5
transport: HTTP
last updated: Apr 3, 2026

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$ npx add-mcp https://mcp.olyport.com/fred/mcp --name fred

Run in your terminal. add-mcp asks which agents to add it to (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and more). Add -g to install it for every project.

Review the command, arguments and environment values before installing. MCP servers run with your local permissions.

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Claude Code

$ claude mcp add --transport http fred https://mcp.olyport.com/fred/mcp

Run in your terminal. Add --scope user to make it available in every project.

Tools

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Verified live against the running server on Nov 6, 2026.

search_seriesSearch for FRED economic data series by keyword. Use this to find series IDs for economic indicators. For example, search 'unemployment rate' to find UNRATE, or 'gross domestic product' to find GDP. Returns series metadata including ID, title, frequency, units, and date range....2 params

Search for FRED economic data series by keyword. Use this to find series IDs for economic indicators. For example, search 'unemployment rate' to find UNRATE, or 'gross domestic product' to find GDP. Returns series metadata including ID, title, frequency, units, and date range....

Parameters* required

limitinteger

default: 10

search_text*string

get_series_observationsGet time series observations (data points) for a FRED series. Returns the actual data values for an economic indicator over time. Use search_series first to find the series_id, or use well-known IDs like UNRATE, GDP, CPIAUCSL, FEDFUNDS, MORTGAGE30US. For state unemployment, us...4 params

Get time series observations (data points) for a FRED series. Returns the actual data values for an economic indicator over time. Use search_series first to find the series_id, or use well-known IDs like UNRATE, GDP, CPIAUCSL, FEDFUNDS, MORTGAGE30US. For state unemployment, us...

Parameters* required

end_datevalue

limitinteger

default: 1000

series_id*string

start_datevalue

get_series_infoGet metadata and details for a specific FRED series. Returns comprehensive information about a series including its title, frequency, units, seasonal adjustment, source, and date range. Use this to understand what a series measures before pulling observations. Args: series_id:...1 params

Get metadata and details for a specific FRED series. Returns comprehensive information about a series including its title, frequency, units, seasonal adjustment, source, and date range. Use this to understand what a series measures before pulling observations. Args: series_id:...

Parameters* required

series_id*string

get_category_seriesGet all FRED series within a specific category. FRED organizes data into a hierarchy of categories. Use this to browse available series within a topic area. Common category IDs: - 32991: Money, Banking, & Finance - 10: Population, Employment, & Labor Markets - 32992: National...1 params

Get all FRED series within a specific category. FRED organizes data into a hierarchy of categories. Use this to browse available series within a topic area. Common category IDs: - 32991: Money, Banking, & Finance - 10: Population, Employment, & Labor Markets - 32992: National...

Parameters* required

category_id*integer

get_release_datesGet release dates for a specific FRED data release. Returns the dates when a particular data release was published. Useful for tracking when economic indicators are updated. Common release IDs: - 10: Consumer Price Index - 46: Producer Price Index - 50: Employment Situation (j...1 params

Get release dates for a specific FRED data release. Returns the dates when a particular data release was published. Useful for tracking when economic indicators are updated. Common release IDs: - 10: Consumer Price Index - 46: Producer Price Index - 50: Employment Situation (j...

Parameters* required

release_id*integer

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Tools verified: Nov 6, 2026

FRED Economic Data

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