GET/macro/inflation

Inflation (Historical)

Monthly US Consumer Price Index history for one series, newest first, with month-over-month and year-over-year percent changes. Covers headline and core CPI plus food, energy, shelter, and services since 1947.

Financial Datasets·$0.025 per call

Example code

// Using @orth/sdk - The simplest way to call APIs
// Install: npm install @orth/sdk
import Orthogonal from "@orth/sdk";

const orthogonal = new Orthogonal({
  apiKey: process.env.ORTHOGONAL_API_KEY,
});

const output = await orthogonal.run({
  api: "financial-datasets",
  path: "/macro/inflation",
  query: {
    "series": "example"
  }
});

console.log(output);

Query parameters

seriesrequired

string

The series id, e.g. cpi_all_sa. Six concepts (all items, core, food, energy, shelter, services less energy), each seasonally adjusted (_sa) and not (_nsa), for 12 ids total.

start_date

string

The first month to return, inclusive, in YYYY-MM-DD format. Defaults to five years before end_date.

end_date

string

The last month to return, inclusive, in YYYY-MM-DD format. Defaults to today.

cursor

string

Opaque pagination cursor from a previous response next_page_url.