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FRED Economic Data MCP Server

io.github.danishashko/fred-economic-mcp

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What is the FRED Economic Data MCP server?

FRED economic data: GDP, inflation, unemployment, rates, and 800k+ Federal Reserve time series.

How to install FRED Economic Data

Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.

transport: stdio
Config generated by PluginBench — verify against the source before use.
Environment / auth
  • FRED_API_KEY
    required
    secret

    Free FRED API key from https://fredaccount.stlouisfed.org/apikeys

Claude Desktop
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fred-economic-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "fred-economic-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "FRED_API_KEY": "<YOUR_FRED_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}
Cursor
~/.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fred-economic-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "fred-economic-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "FRED_API_KEY": "<YOUR_FRED_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}
Windsurf
~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fred-economic-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "fred-economic-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "FRED_API_KEY": "<YOUR_FRED_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}
VS Code
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "fred-economic-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "fred-economic-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "FRED_API_KEY": "<YOUR_FRED_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}
Claude Code
claude mcp add fred-economic-mcp --env FRED_API_KEY=<YOUR_FRED_API_KEY> -- npx -y fred-economic-mcp

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