FRED (economic data) MCP Server

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FRED (economic data) runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 124 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 20 Aug 2026.

FRED economic time series + ALFRED vintages: data as originally published, before revisions.

Installs per day peak 38 · avg 16 · +31% w/w

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124

Installs / week

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20 Aug 2026

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MIT

License

Python

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check FRED (economic data) every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add fred-mcp -e 'FRED_API_KEY=<FRED_API_KEY>' -- uvx mcpwright-fred

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fred-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcpwright-fred"
      ],
      "env": {
        "FRED_API_KEY": "<FRED_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.fred-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["mcpwright-fred"]
env = { FRED_API_KEY = "<FRED_API_KEY>" }

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fred-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcpwright-fred"
      ],
      "env": {
        "FRED_API_KEY": "<FRED_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "fred-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcpwright-fred"
      ],
      "env": {
        "FRED_API_KEY": "<FRED_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Put your own value in place of <FRED_API_KEY> (Your own free FRED API key (get one at fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/api_key_request.html). Keys are personal under the FRED API Terms of Use). The author’s registry entry marks it as required.

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: FRED_MCP_USER_AGENT (Descriptive User-Agent identifying your deployment. Optional).

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FRED (economic data) — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for FRED (economic data)?

FRED (economic data) runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the pypi package mcpwright-fred was installed 124 times last week.

How do I connect FRED (economic data)?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls mcpwright-fred straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use FRED (economic data)?

The pypi package mcpwright-fred was installed 124 times in the last week. Week over week that is +31%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is FRED (economic data) open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.