get_series
Read-onlyIdempotent
Retrieves metadata for a FRED series including title, frequency, seasonal adjustment, units, observation date range, and popularity.
Instructions
Fetch metadata for a FRED series by its id (e.g. GNPCA, UNRATE): title, frequency, seasonal adjustment, units, observation date range, and popularity.
Input Schema
TableJSON Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| series_id | Yes | The FRED series id, e.g. `GNPCA` or `UNRATE`. |
Output Schema
TableJSON Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| id | Yes | The series identifier. | |
| notes | Yes | Editorial notes, when present. | |
| title | Yes | Human-readable title, e.g. `"Real Gross National Product"`. | |
| units | Yes | Free-form units description, e.g. `"Billions of Chained 2017 Dollars"`. This is descriptive text, *not* the closed-vocabulary units transform used in observation requests (modelled separately, later). | |
| frequency | Yes | The series' native reporting frequency. | |
| popularity | Yes | FRED popularity score (0–100). | |
| last_updated | Yes | When FRED last updated the series, as FRED's raw timestamp string. | |
| observation_end | Yes | Date of the latest available observation. | |
| observation_start | Yes | Date of the earliest available observation. | |
| seasonal_adjustment | Yes | Whether/how the series is seasonally adjusted. |