macOS
Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install fredlocal Homebrew formula metadata
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Install fred with Homebrew, zypper
Fully featured FRED Command-line Interface & Python API wrapper. Version 1.2.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-05-21. Also installable with zypper: sudo zypper install fred.
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Linux
openSUSE zypperverified · 92%
sudo zypper install fredopenSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · fred · source: download.opensuse.org
overview
Package summary
Fully featured FRED Command-line Interface & Python API wrapper
Project links
Commands and aliases
- categories
- fred
- releases
- series
- sources
- tags
history
Project history and usage
Fred CLI & Python API is a Python package and command-line interface for the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis FRED API. It wraps FRED data endpoints in Python modules and exposes separate CLI commands for major endpoint groups such as categories, releases, series, sources, and tags.
Project history
The GitHub repository was created in June 2022. The first pre-alpha release was published on June 23, 2022 as the first PyPI release, followed quickly by dependency fixes, full API stubs, a first full implementation of all APIs, and a test suite.
The project metadata describes it as production/stable, intended for developers, finance users, and science/research users. The README documents installation through Homebrew and PyPI, Read the Docs API documentation, a GitHub wiki, FRED API documentation, and API key creation through the St. Louis Fed account site.
Adoption history
The package is packaged for Homebrew as fred and for Python as fred-py-api on PyPI. Its README also documents shell completion snippets for zsh, bash, and fish, which is a sign that the CLI was intended for repeated terminal use rather than only occasional scripting.
How it is used
Users install the package with brew install fred or pip install fred-py-api. The pyproject defines console scripts named fred, categories, releases, series, sources, and tags; these map to the main FRED data domains exposed by the official St. Louis Fed API documentation.
Why package nerds care
Fred is interesting as a package because it turns a public economic-data web API into both importable Python modules and Unix-style subcommands. It packages a government-backed data source in a way that fits shell workflows, notebooks, finance scripts, and reproducible research pipelines.
Timeline
- 2022: Repository created on June 22.
- 2022: v0.0.1-pre-alpha released as the first PyPI release.
- 2022: v0.0.5-pre-alpha marked the first full implementation of all APIs.
- 2022: v0.0.6-pre-alpha added a test suite with full coverage notes.
- 2022: v0.1.0-beta published after alpha releases.
- 2024: Read the Docs documentation generated for fred-py-api 1.2.0.
- 2026: Repository metadata shows active version 1.2.1 in pyproject.
Related projects
- The project is directly related to the official FRED API, the FRED API key service, the fred-py-api Read the Docs site, and Python packaging through PyPI. It is also related to Click and Requests, which are listed as package dependencies.
Sources
security posture
No protected-tool coverage found yet
No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for fred. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.
Install behavior
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
categories | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
fred | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
releases | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
series | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
sources | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
tags | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-08-03
manager version1.2.1
manager updated2026-05-21
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:fred |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.2.1 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/fred/ |
| Last updated | 2026-05-21T13:53:34Z |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
source database matches
Other package-manager records
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zypper95%
fred 0.2.0-1.30
Forensic Registry EDitor, an editor for Microsoft Registry hives
sudo zypper install fred- License: GPL-2.0+
- Category: Productivity/File utilities
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: fred
- 10 dependencies
- 2 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Fred
zypper92%
tags 1.8-1.5
A simple text tagger
https://github.com/phastmike/tags
sudo zypper install tags- License: X11
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: tags
- 10 dependencies
- 4 provides
- installed executable or alias match
- Matched by: Tags
source trail
Generated from repository data
This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- pkg.so package database
- pkgdb category and tag curation