The SASEFRED Interface Engine

The following statements demonstrate how to use the URL= option to obtain the RELEASE and RELEASES data sets for a specific source and how to create a permanent data set named REL8 in the MyLib SAS library:

title 'Specifying the URL= Option to Create the REL8 Data Set';
libname _all_ clear;
libname mylib "U:\fred940\doc\";

libname fred8 sasefred "U:\fred940\test\"
   debug=on
   URL="http://api.stlouisfed.org/fred/source/releases?source_id=11"
   APIKEY='XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
   ;

data mylib.rel8;
   set fred8.XFREDtpu;
run;

proc print
   data=mylib.rel8;
run;

proc contents
   data=mylib.rel8;
run;