Fred Categories

Browse the Federal Reserve FRED category tree to DISCOVER economic series.

Overview

Browse the Federal Reserve FRED category tree to DISCOVER economic series. Pass a categoryId to get that category (name + parent), its child categories, and the most-popular series filed under it (id, title, units, frequency) — then pull the data with econ.fred. Omit categoryId (or pass 0) for the eight top-level categories: Money/Banking/Finance, Population/Employment/Labor, National Accounts, Production & Business Activity, Prices, International Data, U.S. Regional Data, Academic Data. Walk down via each child's id. Free, public-domain (FRED). The structured map of what FRED actually contains — far more reliable than guessing series ids. Companion to econ.fred (fetch/search) and econ.fred-releases (calendar).

Endpoint

Method	Endpoint	Price	Description
GET	/v1/marketplace/api/fred-categories	$0.00138	Invoke Fred Categories (Search) and return the upstream response.

How to call it

Requests are paid per call over the x402 protocol. Call the endpoint, receive a 402 Payment Required quote, then repeat the request with the signed payment header. The SDKs do both steps for you.

# 1. Ask for a quote
curl -i https://api.jarvisclaw.ai/v1/marketplace/api/fred-categories

# 2. Pay it (the SDK signs and retries for you)
curl -H "X-PAYMENT: <signed-payload>" https://api.jarvisclaw.ai/v1/marketplace/api/fred-categories

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