BLS Public Data API
FreeLiveLast verified 29 Sept 2026
US inflation (CPI), jobs, unemployment, wages and producer prices from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Example request
curl -s 'https://api.bls.gov/publicAPI/v2/timeseries/data/CUUR0000SA0'
Free tier, in plain English
Works without a key for 25 queries a day; a free registration key raises that to 500 a day and adds calculations and series metadata.
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