# Aurenic FRED Economic Time Series API

> Aurenic FRED Economic Time Series API is a paid API for AI agents from api.aurenic.org, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-02).

Fetches FRED economic time series data (Fed funds rate, CPI, unemployment, etc.) as JSON by series ID

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.aurenic.org/fred/:seriesId?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-02
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/aurenic-fred-economic-time-series-api-a7c0d288
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_JlVPNLtASn4c_omzDozcF

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability aurenic-fred-economic-time-series-api-a7c0d288
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the FRED time series for the federal funds rate (series ID FEDFUNDS) and show me the latest data points?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need quick, pay-per-call access to FRED macroeconomic time series data without setting up a FRED API key, or when building an agent that needs to programmatically query economic indicators on demand. Especially useful for agents that need occasional lookups of Fed funds rate, CPI, unemployment, or GDP without a recurring subscription.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or nonexistent series ID returns an error response
- FRED API downstream outage causes unavailability
- Rate limiting or payment failure (x402) if USDC balance insufficient
- Malformed series ID path parameter yields 400-level error

## How this service works

FRED economic time series as JSON (Fed funds, CPI, unemployment, etc.)

## Output

A JSON object containing the FRED time series data for the requested series ID, including historical observation dates and corresponding values for the specified economic indicator (e.g. Fed funds rate, CPI, unemployment rate, GDP, M2 money supply, etc.)

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "pathParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "seriesId"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "seriesId": {
       "type": "string"
      }
     }
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {}
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/aurenic-fred-economic-time-series-api-a7c0d288/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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