General research
Economic & social statistics
Find and fetch official series from FRED, World Bank, IMF, OECD, Eurostat, BLS, US Census and Our World in Data.
1 credit / call|find_series, get_series
Once connected, say this to your agent
Get monthly US CPI and unemployment since 2000 and line them up by date.
Works withClaude · ChatGPT · Codex · Cursor · Gemini CLI · REST API
Toolsfind_series, get_series
Example
YOU SAY TO YOUR AGENT
Get the monthly US unemployment rate since January 2025.
On the right: the call your agent makes and the reply it got on 2026-10-13, shortened to the first records and a few of their fields.
get_series({
"series_id": "fred:UNRATE",
"start": "2025-01"
})
{
"summary": "Unemployment Rate: 20 observations from 2025-01-01 to 2026-09-01; latest value 4.2 (Percent, Seasonally Adjusted).",
"records": [
{
"title": "Unemployment Rate",
"url": "https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE",
"source": "fred",
"data": {
"seriesId": "fred:UNRATE",
"units": "Percent, Seasonally Adjusted",
"frequency": "Monthly",
"count": 20,
"observations": [
{
"date": "2025-01-01",
"value": 4
},
{
"date": "2025-02-01",
"value": 4.2
},
{
"date": "2025-03-01",
"value": 4.2
}
]
}
}
],
"credits_used": 1
}What you get
- Clean date/value series with units and source
Good fit
- Economics, public policy and social science
Not for
- Microdata that needs a data agreement
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Frequently asked questions
Your agent calls find_series, get_series over MCP. ScholarMuse queries FRED, World Bank, IMF, OECD, Eurostat, BLS, US Census, Our World in Data and returns records, each with its source, licence and a link you can check.
No. It costs 1 credit per call, charged only when the call succeeds. A new account gets 50 credits once, valid for 30 days.
Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI and any other client that supports MCP.
Yes. The same tools (find_series, get_series) are available over the REST API.