The usage of the api as documented here - https://github.com/zachwill/fred
- suggests :
>>> import fred
# Save your FRED API key.
>>> fred.key('my_fred_api_key')
# Interact with economic data categories.
>>> fred.category()
...
Cheers,
Anish Tambe
On 26 Oct 2014 00:23, "Joel Goldstick" <joel.goldst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Mark Meanwell <mmeanw...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi Folks - new to python and trying to run an API. Running version
> 2.7.3. on
> > Windows 7 machine.
> >
> > Here is the scenario for the given API (FRED API in this case):
> >
> > easy_install Fred from C:\ - this installs to C:\site packages
> >
> > then I fire up the python shell and run file created for fred api:
> >
> > from fredapi import Fred
> > fred = Fred(api_key='my api key')
> > data = fred.get_series('SP500')
> >
> > keep getting below error message:
> > ImportError: cannot import name Fred
> >
> > thanks for any suggestions!
>
> I'm not familiar with FRED, but a quick look on stackoverflow used the
> lowercase name to import
>
> >
> >
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