FRED API Python Tutorial - Get Economic Data

[@Fullstack_LP]

A step-by-step walkthrough of how to access FRED data after getting the api key was missing from so many other videos claiming to provide a "guide" to accessing the FRED API. This video was really helpful. Thank you

[@damgetbags]

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[@andreguichard4425]

Great Video! Thank you!

[@damgetbags]

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[@hayleyreardon1187]

This was very helpful, a bit fast as I'm not experienced and ran into issues along the way so had to stop and troubleshoot (defining my api key, how did you do that? I added it in my command prompt but seems there's a way to do it in spyder itself) but overall very helpful!

[@myhahockey04]

Hi Adam - thanks for the video. Great content! Just subscribed. Do you have any idea of how to best chunk out the request when the endpoints are limited to 1,000 line items? I am fairly new to coding/Python but would love any direction you could provide.

[@damgetbags]

sup, myha. basically this - your first api call gets the first 1000 items, save items 1-1000 (to a list for example) then increase the offset to 1000. now the the second api call get items 1001 - 2000, save items 1001-2000. then once you've saved all the items you need, combine all the items on the list to make your combined data set. you see?

[@RightAIopen]

Could you try to get GDP and population for each US city?

[@TIMW217]

hey Adam Thank you for the video. Its straight to the point w/o needless puff I encountered the error running from fred_key import fred_key ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'fred_key' though i dowloaded both fred and fred api through: "pip install fredapi" and "pip install fred" Will be glad to hear from you Good luck!

[@mohameddaytona]

thank u so much bro

[@damgetbags]

of course fam

[@Mk84321]

Hey man I keep getting this error Failed to retrieve data. Status code: 400 Failed to retrieve data. Status code: 400 Failed to retrieve data. Status code: 400 Failed to retrieve data. Status code: 400 Failed to retrieve data. Status code: 400 Traceback (most recent call last): line 148, in print(releases[['id', 'name']]) ^^^^^^^^ NameError: name 'releases' is not defined. Did you mean: 'reversed'?

[@damgetbags]

Did you get your API key? Your data request to the API is failing for some reason. Since you are getting all 400 errors, the variable "releases" from line 142 won't be assigned like it is in the video.

[@Mk84321]

@@damgetbags I did

[@Mk84321]

Also wow I'm In shock you replied... I'm a huge fan of your content!

[@damgetbags]

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