FRED bulk release observations (v2)

Bulk-fetch observations for every series in a FRED release in one call. Send GET /api/fred-release-observations with the required field releaseId and pay $0.005 per call over x402 or MPP (there is no free tier). It returns a JSON object with releaseId, releaseName, count, series, cursor and 1 more.

Use it to grab an entire economic report (jobs report, CPI report, GDP release) without enumerating constituent series IDs first. Returns paginated; pass lastSeriesId + lastObservationDate back to fetch the next page. ?releaseId=18 for H.15 (Selected Interest Rates), 10 for CPI, 50 for Employment Situation, 53 for GDP. Source: FRED API v2 /release/observations endpoint. This product uses the FRED(R) API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

Category: Live public data · Tags: fred release bulk observations v2 cpi jobs gdp

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Parameters

Example request

curl -i "https://agent402.tools/api/fred-release-observations?releaseId=18&startDate=2026-05-01&endDate=2026-06-01"

Without payment this returns HTTP 402 Payment Required with the exact price for fred-release-observations; any x402 v2 or MPP client pays it and retries.

Example response

{
  "releaseId": 18,
  "releaseName": "H.15 Selected Interest Rates",
  "count": 16,
  "series": [
    {
      "seriesId": "DGS10",
      "title": "10-Year Treasury Constant Maturity Rate",
      "units": "Percent",
      "observations": [
        {
          "date": "2026-06-17",
          "value": 4.49
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "cursor": {
    "hasMore": false
  },
  "source": "FRED API v2"
}

From an MCP client

catalog.call {
  "slug": "fred-release-observations",
  "params": {
    "releaseId": 18,
    "startDate": "2026-05-01",
    "endDate": "2026-06-01"
  }
}

The hosted connector at https://agent402.tools/mcp needs a payment for fred-release-observations; the stdio package pays it from a wallet or from AGENT402_CREDITS_KEY. Local install: npx -y agent402-mcp.

Errors and behavior

• releaseId is required. An input the tool rejects returns an HTTP 4xx whose body carries error, tool, expected, required and example, so the caller can correct it.
• A paid call that ends in any status of 400 or above is not charged over x402, MPP or a prepaid credits key: settlement is cancelled when the tool fails. The exception is a Tempo push credential, a transfer the buyer sent before the call: it settles before the tool runs, so if the tool then fails the payment is recorded as a refund owed to the paying wallet.
• Wallet-only: this tool reaches the network or stored state, so it has no proof-of-work tier. A prepaid card-credits key issued earlier (Authorization: Bearer a402_...) also pays it.
• A POST with a JSON body to /api/fred-release-observations is served as this GET, with the body as the input.
• An Idempotency-Key header makes a retried paid call replay the first 200 instead of charging again (an answer larger than 1 MB is not replayed).

Paid call (JavaScript agent)

import { wrapFetchWithPayment } from "@x402/fetch";
import { x402Client } from "@x402/core/client";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

const client = new x402Client();
client.setSpendControls?.(false); // keep your own spending ceiling in code
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(KEY) });
const payFetch = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

const res = await payFetch("https://agent402.tools/api/fred-release-observations?releaseId=18&startDate=2026-05-01&endDate=2026-06-01");

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