FRED (economic data) MCP Server

io.github.mcpwright/fred-mcp

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What is the FRED (economic data) MCP server?

FRED economic time series + ALFRED vintages: data as originally published, before revisions.

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
Your own free FRED API key (get one at fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/api_key_request.html). Keys are personal under the FRED API Terms of Use.
FRED_MCP_USER_AGENT
Descriptive User-Agent identifying your deployment. Optional.

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fred-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcpwright-fred"
      ],
      "env": {
        "FRED_API_KEY": "<YOUR_FRED_API_KEY>",
        "FRED_MCP_USER_AGENT": "<YOUR_FRED_MCP_USER_AGENT>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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