install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%

brew install fred

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

openSUSE zypperverified · 92%

sudo zypper install fred

openSUSE 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 post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 1 platform targets.
Installs with 2 runtime dependencies.

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
`categories`	cli	global executable
`fred`	cli	global executable
`releases`	cli	global executable
`series`	cli	global executable
`sources`	cli	global executable
`tags`	cli	global executable

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 generated2026-07-08

manager version1.2.1

manager updated2026-05-21

local dataok

upstreamnot checked

latest detectednot detected

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/fred/

infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/fred/none confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:fred
Version	1.2.1
Package manager	Homebrew
Package manager page	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/fred
Homepage	https://fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/fred/
Repository	https://github.com/zachspar/fred-py-api
Upstream docs	https://fred-py-api.readthedocs.io/en/latest
License	MIT
Source archive	https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/81/97/25f2721387b30613436d80e0d82d6b2dea76f053139950e5b02d7786dccd/fred_py_api-1.2.1.tar.gz
Last updated	2026-05-21T13:53:34Z
Pulse	updated
Dependencies	certifi, python@3.14
Bottle	available (on all)
Homebrew post-install	not defined
Service	none declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	fred
Version Scheme	0
Revision	2
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	stable

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

zypper95%

fred 0.2.0-1.28

Forensic Registry EDitor, an editor for Microsoft Registry hives

https://www.pinguin.lu/fred

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

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: fred from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst

zypper92%

tags 1.8-1.3

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

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: tags from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

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.

combined/fred.yml

Used sources

Geiger risk classifier
Nucleus package database
av.db category and tag curation
cross-ecosystem install command graph
curated package history
external package-manager database matches
package relationship graph
package version freshness
package-page enrichment

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